Come let me stroke your pathetic bureaucratic wiener and entertain you.
For fresh grads, I’d rank in terms of prestige and the minimal transferable skills beyond pencil-pushing:
In descending order:
1.
MTI Economist Service (With matlab and knowledge in stata/r, this is chad quant powah)
2. MFA FSO scheme (I really wanna rank this lower cuz it’s basically a circle jerk culture with bureaucrats copy-pasting Academia.edu stuff and passing it of as their own briefing doc BUT unfortunately due to its overrated popularity among
PSC scholars, I have to give it 2nd)
3.
EDB Associate Programme (Basically underpaid consultants)
4. ESG Associate Programme (People who can’t get to
EDB MA go here)
5.
MTI IO/TO Track
7. STB MA Programme (Yes I rank this higher than
MAS cuz those grant-awarding work will come in handy if you jump to Govt Relations role in the private sector)
8.
MAS Graduate Officer Scheme
9. IMDA AIM / MCI Information Officer