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By Universities.sg · Data: Ministry of Education & SkillsFuture Singapore (GES 2025) · Methodology
The Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design is a direct-entry honours programme offered by the Division of Industrial Design in the NUS College of Design and Engineering. The curriculum is built on three pillars: Design Thinking, Multi-Disciplinary Aptitudes covering behavioural sciences, business strategy, engineering and technology, and Artistic Sensibility through traditional and digital media.
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Programme information from NUS
Industrial Design at NUS has an IGP of BBC/B, a 78.6% employment rate, and a median starting salary of $4,050, placing it in the upper half by graduate pay.
The 10th percentile IGP for this programme is BBC/B, which works out to 58.0 rank points out of 70. That puts it in the middle third among all 77 courses with published IGP data, and 18th out of 21 programmes at NUS 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 3.56 (10th percentile) for admission. The 90th percentile GPA is 3.90.
In the 2025 Graduate Employment Survey, 78.6% of graduates from this programme found work within six months of their final exams. That's 15% below the NUS average of 92.3%, which puts it in the lower range across all surveyed courses. The full-time permanent employment rate is 47.6%. For fresh graduates, the median gross monthly salary is $4,050, which ranks in the upper half of all courses (111th out of 242). That's 13% below the NUS average of $4,660. Most graduates earned between $3,500 and $4,500, the range spanning the 25th to 75th percentile of earners.
Over the past 12 years (2013–2025), the overall employment rate has decreased by 3.5 percentage points, moving from 82.1% to 78.6%. The rate has bounced around a fair bit over this stretch, from a low of 66.7% to a high of 93.3%. That's based on 13 years of Graduate Employment Survey data. Median salaries have grown by $1,400 (53%) over the same period, from $2,650 in 2013 to $4,050 in 2025.
Related reading: The most competitive courses in Singapore · Where this data comes from
Source: NUS Admissions Office
Source: MOE Graduate Employment Survey (2025)
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Contains data from Graduate Employment Survey from MOE made available under Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0