17 April 2018
A recent survey on employment in Singapore found that in terms of job prospects, graduates from private universities still lag behind their counterparts from public universities.
The employment survey was released in April by the Committee for Private Education.
The survey found that 47.4 per cent of private school graduates found full-time permanent work six months after finishing their studies, compared with 78.4 per cent for their peers from three of Singapore’s publicly-funded universities, namely, NUS, NTU and SMU.
Private school graduates earned median gross starting salaries of $2,650 a month, below the $3,400 for graduates of NUS, NTU and SMU.
A total of 42 private schools took part in the survey.