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NUS • Faculty of Law
By Universities.sg · Data: Ministry of Education & SkillsFuture Singapore (GES 2024) · Methodology
The Bachelor of Laws (LLB) is a four-year undergraduate honours degree programme at the NUS Faculty of Law. Approximately half the required courses are compulsory common law subjects; electives span areas including Asian Legal Studies, Corporate and Financial Services Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law, and International and Comparative Law. The LLB is recognised for admission to practise law in Singapore.
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Programme information from NUS
Law at NUS combines highly selective admission (ranked 1st of 77 by difficulty) with strong graduate salaries ($7,000 median, ranked 1st).
The 10th percentile IGP for this programme is AAA/A, which works out to 67.8 rank points out of 70. That puts it in the top 5% among all 77 courses with published IGP data, and 1st 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.
In the 2024 Graduate Employment Survey, 93.8% of graduates from this programme found work within six months of their final exams. That's in line with the NUS average of 92.3%, which puts it in the upper half across all surveyed courses. The full-time permanent employment rate is 90.4%. For fresh graduates, the median gross monthly salary is $7,000, which ranks in the top 5% of all courses (1st out of 242). That's 50% above the NUS average of $4,660. Most graduates earned between $6,200 and $7,000, the range spanning the 25th to 75th percentile of earners.
Over the past 7 years (2017–2024), the overall employment rate has decreased by 2.0 percentage points, moving from 95.8% to 93.8%. That's based on 8 years of Graduate Employment Survey data. Median salaries have grown by $2,000 (40%) over the same period, from $5,000 in 2017 to $7,000 in 2024.
Related reading: The most competitive courses in Singapore · Where this data comes from
Source: NUS Admissions Office
Source: MOE Graduate Employment Survey (2024)
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Contains data from Graduate Employment Survey from MOE made available under Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0