There are some interesting findings too. Not all business courses are created equally. Starting salaries for NTU business course graduates seems to lagged behind the other business courses offered by other universities generally although it is a 3 years direct honours course. On the other hand, since it is a 3 years courses, graduates can gain a year of experience and earn a year of salary compared to business graduates from other universities who are taking the 4 year route. Another thing is that graduating with honours or Cum Laude and above give rise to a rather significant increase in the starting salaries.
The starting salaries for SMU graduates is also rather interesting. SMU graduates seems to be commanding a premium for their salaries as compared to graduates for other universities for equivalent courses generally. Their mean salaries are also significant higher than their median salaries which suggest that there are a few graduates at the upper tier who are really getting much higher starting salaries than the rest of their peers in the same courses. It seems like SMU is a good choice for those who are considering on which universities they should join.
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That's weird. NTU Science graduates are earning significantly more than NUS Science graduates. As a NUS Science graduate I'm insulted. What on earth are employers thinking? NTU Science is plain crap, it was just created a few years back!
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ReplyDeleteFrom the viewpoint of employers, NTU and NUS are local universities so it will not make much of a difference on whether the course was started half a century ago or a few years ago. What matters are perhaps the type of major on whether it is related to the industry, personal traits such as leadership qualities, negotiation skills, ability to deal with people and so on and relevant experience to the field which you are working in. Having a pleasant personality will be beneficial too. Having said that, graduating with first class honours or maxima cum laude will give one an edge too although that is often being over emphasized by students themselves.
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College is not what it was once worth.
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