Data on starting salaries of the graduating cohorts from the local universities, extracted from Graduate Employment Survey (GES), facilitate the comparison of starting salaries across various courses.
The GES is jointly conducted by NTU, NUS, SMU, SIT (from 2014), SUTD (from 2015) and SUSS (from 2018) annually to survey the employment conditions of graduates about six months after their final examinations. The Ministry of Education (MOE) publishes the results of key employment indicators of the survey to provide prospective students with timely and comparable data to assist them in making informed course decisions. Graduates from NTU, NUS, SMU and SUSS are surveyed in November of the graduation year. Due to a difference in academic calendar, graduates from SIT are surveyed in March of the following year after graduation. Graduates from SUTD were surveyed in February of the year after graduation until 2024, when they were surveyed in November of the graduation year, after aligning its academic calendar with the majority of the AUs.
2024 GES:
- 6,056 fresh graduates and 161 follow-up graduates from NTU were surveyed and the overall response rates obtained were 74.2% and 61.5% respectively.
- 7,382 fresh graduates and 806 follow-up graduates from NUS were surveyed and the overall response rates obtained were 71.4% and 53.0% respectively.
- 2,300 fresh graduates and 168 follow-up graduates from SMU were surveyed and the overall response rates obtained were 75.7% and 75.0% respectively.
- 2,706 full-time graduates from SIT were surveyed and the overall response rate obtained was 78.0%.
- 417 fresh graduates and 53 follow-up graduates from SUTD were surveyed and the overall response rates obtained were 76.3% and 56.6% respectively.
- 835 fresh graduates and 28 follow-up graduates from SUSS were surveyed and the overall response rates obtained were 75.6% and 57.1% respectively.
GES can be found on the data.gov.sg