What 2020 s fresh grads from NUS, NTU, SMU, and SUSS are earning Details Published: 22 February 2021
More than two thirds (68.9%) of fresh graduates across four of the six Autonomous Universities (AU) in Singapore found permanent full-time jobs last year, revealed the recently released Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey.
According to a joint press release by National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), this was significantly less than the 81.7% in 2019,
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Graduates of NUS were found to have achieved strong employment and earned high starting salaries in 2020.
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SINGAPORE: The proportion of university graduates who found permanent full-time employment six months after their final exams dropped by slightly more than 10 per cent in 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey found that 69.8 per cent of fresh graduates found permanent full-time jobs last year, down from 81.7 per cent in 2019.
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The survey polled 11,800 fresh graduates from full-time programmes at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).
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Across the board fewer students who graduated last year managed to secure a full-time job.PHOTO: ST FILE
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