you guys are making distinction where there is none. NUS,NTU,SMU,ANU,UMel,USyd, and on, there is no real distinction in general. of course, there will be the odd case where one emploer prefers the aussie uni and another love the local chap, but they are just white noise. strip them out, graduates from these uni are indistinguishable.

Employers distinguish unis into 3 broad groups: top (Harvard, cambridge, stanford), norm (NUS, ANU, whatever) and DL/external. Graduating from a top uni will typically, but not always, help. again white noise comes into play, sometimes