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By Universities.sg · Data: Ministry of Education & SkillsFuture Singapore (GES 2025) · Methodology
The Bachelor of Social Sciences is a four-year programme at the School of Social Sciences, offering major pathways. The PPS major centres on Psychology, Political Science, and Sociology, while the PLE major combines Politics, Law, and Economics. All students complete a compulsory Social Science Practicum involving team-based research on real-world problems.
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Programme information from SMU
Bachelor of Social Sciences at SMU has an IGP of BBB/C, a 86% employment rate, and a median starting salary of $4,000, placing it in the upper half by graduate pay.
The 10th percentile IGP for this programme is BBB/C, which works out to 59.1 rank points out of 70. That puts it in the middle third among all 77 courses with published IGP data, and 6th 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 3.65 (10th percentile) for admission. The 90th percentile GPA is 3.89.
In the 2025 Graduate Employment Survey, 86% of graduates from this programme found work within six months of their final exams. That's 8% 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 74.4%. For fresh graduates, the median gross monthly salary is $4,000, which ranks in the upper half of all courses (116th out of 242). That's 17% below the SMU average of $4,798. Most graduates earned between $3,600 and $4,700, the range spanning the 25th to 75th percentile of earners.
Over the past 12 years (2013–2025), the overall employment rate has remained relatively stable, moving from 86.5% to 86%. That's based on 13 years of Graduate Employment Survey data. Median salaries have grown by $1,000 (33%) over the same period, from $3,000 in 2013 to $4,000 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