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By Universities.sg · Data: Ministry of Education & SkillsFuture Singapore (GES 2025) · Methodology
The Bachelor of Business Management is a four-year programme offered by the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. Students select from business majors spanning areas including Finance, Marketing, Operations Management, Strategic Management, Digital Transformation, and Sustainability. Graduation requirements include an internship, community service, and global exposure.
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Programme information from SMU
Bachelor of Business Management at SMU has an IGP of ABB/C, a 84.8% employment rate, and a median starting salary of $4,600, placing it in the top quarter by graduate pay.
The 10th percentile IGP for this programme is ABB/C, which works out to 61.3 rank points out of 70. That puts it in the upper half among all 77 courses with published IGP data, and 5th out of 10 programmes at SMU 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 3.78 (10th percentile) for admission. The 90th percentile GPA is 3.95.
In the 2025 Graduate Employment Survey, 84.8% of graduates from this programme found work within six months of their final exams. That's 9% below the SMU average of 93.5%, which puts it in the lower quarter across all surveyed courses. The full-time permanent employment rate is 75.9%. For fresh graduates, the median gross monthly salary is $4,600, which ranks in the top quarter of all courses (53rd out of 242). That's 4% below the SMU average of $4,798. Most graduates earned between $4,000 and $5,525, the range spanning the 25th to 75th percentile of earners.
Over the past 12 years (2013–2025), the overall employment rate has decreased by 8.4 percentage points, moving from 93.2% to 84.8%. That's based on 13 years of Graduate Employment Survey data. Median salaries have grown by $1,400 (44%) over the same period, from $3,200 in 2013 to $4,600 in 2025.
Related reading: The most competitive courses in Singapore · Where this data comes from
Source: SMU 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