Originally Posted by Unregistered

1. MBA is not cheap.

2. If you want to go into finance, you are better off doing easier degrees. Engineering is one of the hardest course to score a 1st class and guess what? Finance companies don't really care which degree you get because they don't teach them in universities.

Better to get an easier to score degree and spend more time on CCA/leadership.

3. People from banking always talk about sky high retrenchment, tough assessment centres and they hire very little people. And about how finance don't really hire. The same applies for engineering. The ones that hire are the ones with high turnover due to poor work life balance and disgustingly low pay. Other than that, you have to pray hard to be one of the 1-3 grads/masters/phd that companies hire once every few years.

If you're in engineering, do know that engineering faculty is larger than arts and biz faculty combined. Oh not forgetting NUS engineering faculty too.

4. IMO, the money is in programming and design now. Programming languages is absolutely essential in engineering. Are there any designing companies in Singapore? Yes but extremely little in Singapore. Most of them are overseas.

5. My recommendations? Computer engineering would be good if you are interested in an engineering course. The things you learn are more applicable. Otherwise, biz/acct is the way to go. Try to get into either NUS or NTU or SMU.

It is not a coincidence that 50% of the engineering grads work in non-engineering fields and another 50% of the remaining quit engineering after a few years. The numbers don't lie. Engineering is mainly manufacturing and manufacturing is dead. To the companies, Singaporeans are here to look after process only (aka glorified technicians).