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NTU • College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
By Universities.sg · Data: Ministry of Education & SkillsFuture Singapore (GES 2019) · Methodology
The Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Public Policy and Global Affairs is a four-year direct honours programme with an interdisciplinary orientation covering policy analysis, programme evaluation, public financial management, and human resource management. Core study areas include politics, international relations, public administration, and public policy, with a focus on Singaporean and Asian contexts.
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Programme information from NTU
Public Policy & Global Affairs at NTU has an IGP of AAB/B, a 90.2% employment rate, and a median starting salary of $3,850, placing it in the middle third by graduate pay.
The 10th percentile IGP for this programme is AAB/B, which works out to 64.5 rank points out of 70. That puts it in the top third among all 77 courses with published IGP data, and 5th out of 46 programmes at NTU by how hard it is to get into. The 90th percentile IGP is AAA/A, so you can see the typical range of admitted students. Polytechnic graduates need a minimum GPA of 3.60 (10th percentile) for admission. The 90th percentile GPA is 3.86.
In the 2019 Graduate Employment Survey, 90.2% of graduates from this programme found work within six months of their final exams. That's 9% above the NTU average of 82.6%, which puts it in the middle third across all surveyed courses. The full-time permanent employment rate is 87.8%. For fresh graduates, the median gross monthly salary is $3,850, which ranks in the middle third of all courses (136th out of 242). That's 12% below the NTU average of $4,397. Most graduates earned between $3,500 and $4,345, the range spanning the 25th to 75th percentile of earners.
Related reading: The most competitive courses in Singapore · Where this data comes from
Source: NTU Admissions Office
Source: MOE Graduate Employment Survey (2019)
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Contains data from Graduate Employment Survey from MOE made available under Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0