Graduate Employment
In the Graduate Employment Survey 2011, SMU graduates achieved a record employment rate of 96.9%. Nearly 74% of them secured job offers either before graduation or within one month after graduation. Over 62% of the graduates received two or more job offers. The average monthly salary among SMU graduates in full-time jobs was $3,388, an improvement of 3.8% over 2010's figure of $3,271, and the highest for SMU graduates since its first cohort graduated in 2004. In addition, the top 20 per cent of its graduates, usually those working in financial institutions, took home an average salary of $5,039. There were some among the 125 top-earners who were paid up to $14,100 a month.
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