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The Graduate Employment Survey is a joint initiative by Singapore's six autonomous universities, conducted annually approximately six months after graduates complete their final examinations. The survey captures employment status, salary information, and other career outcomes for fresh graduates from all undergraduate programmes. Results are published by the Ministry of Education and are the most authoritative source of graduate outcome data in Singapore.
Universities.sg aggregates GES data from 2013 to the present, covering over 200 degree programmes across NUS, NTU, SMU, SUTD, SIT, and SUSS. This historical depth allows you to identify long-term trends in employment rates and salaries, rather than relying on a single year's snapshot. The explorer tool above lets you select multiple courses and visualise their outcomes over time on the same chart.
Overall employment rate includes graduates in any form of employment: full-time permanent, part-time, temporary, freelance, or self-employed. This is the broadest measure of employment success and tends to be the highest of the reported rates.
Full-time permanent employment rate counts only graduates who secured full-time, permanent positions. This is generally considered the more meaningful metric for assessing stable career outcomes, as it excludes temporary contracts and freelance work. Programmes with a large gap between overall and full-time permanent rates may indicate fields where contract, freelance, or portfolio-based careers are common (such as the arts, design, or media).
Median gross monthly salary represents the midpoint of all reported gross salaries, including employer CPF contributions and regular allowances, but excluding one-off bonuses. The median is used rather than the mean because it is less affected by extreme outliers. For context, across the courses tracked here, the typical course reported a median gross salary of about $4,500 per month in the 2025 GES.
25th and 75th percentile salaries show the interquartile range, indicating where the middle 50% of graduates fall. A wide interquartile range suggests diverse career paths and employer types within a field, while a narrow range indicates more uniform compensation.
Select one or more courses using the search bar above, then choose a metric (employment rate or salary type) to visualise. Each line on the chart represents one programme's outcomes over time. Gaps in the line indicate years where data was not published, typically due to small cohort size or programme restructuring. You can toggle between different salary measures (median, mean, 25th percentile, 75th percentile) and employment rate types (overall, full-time permanent) to explore different dimensions of graduate outcomes.
When interpreting trends, keep in mind that year-to-year fluctuations in employment rates are shaped by broader economic conditions as well as programme quality. The 2020 GES data, for example, reflects the impact of COVID-19 on the job market. Multi-year trends are generally more reliable indicators of a programme's track record than any single data point.
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All employment and salary data sourced from the Ministry of Education Graduate Employment Survey, published annually. Historical data compiled from annual reports spanning 2013 to 2025. See our methodology for details.