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Originally Posted by Unregistered
smu is essentially a 4 year career seminar.
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Career seminars are workshops on helping you prepare to enter the workforce. They include tips on how to find and apply for jobs, prepare for interviews and assessment centres and learn about your work rights.
It is however, correct to assume it is a seminar-style of teaching:
://.thefreedictionary.com/seminar
This "4 year career seminar" you speak of is actually an MBA style of teaching adopted from the best undergaduate Business School in the world. The Wharton Business School.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
the sole purpose of smu is to prepare the students for their future career. not that it is bad thing.. |
I think the purpose of
SMU is to prepare students for what they wish to pursue in life, if thats what you are saying.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
but if u r into the more technical aspect of the field whether it is in finance, econs or watever, den smu is not the right place... which is y some some ppl call smu grad balloons. pretty on the outside and filled with nothing but air. |
Wrong again.
SMU Economic graduates, and Finance graduates get paid the most, as mentioned by the other poster: ://.salary.sg/2014/graduate-employment-survey-2013-published-2014/
Even
SMU Economic degree holders with Cum laude and above gets paid higher $ than NBS graduates with a double degree with Accountancy and Business
SMU grads are anything but balloons. You have an opportunity to go for international exchange programs, internships, and for some courses; compulsory study mission to put what you learn into the real working world overseas and beyond.
They have to go for compulsory internships and compulsory community service activities (which most students choose to volunteer at an organization that they can apply their technical and soft skills at)
NTU and
NUS hardly offers most of the above, and
SMU students generally gain more exposure.
Either the
SMU graduate you have worked with is either lazy or shows no interest in his job.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
anyway, having a specialization within the major does not make it a specialized degree.
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The major itself is a specialization for
SMU. Not sure about others though.
