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11-05-2008, 10:11 PM
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SMU Fresh Grads Make $4k to $10k
Ok, not all of them.
The "Class of 2007" of Singapore Management University ( SMU) are getting higher starting salaries than their seniors.
According to the SMU employment survey, their salaries are 6.7% higher than the previous cohort.
Of the 618 survey respondents, 69 got high-paying jobs that pay between $4,000 to $10,000 a month.
And those who got distinctions in their degrees - namely summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude - receive an average starting pay of $3,500.
Congratulations to the SMU Class of 2007.
But the sceptics among us know that results of such employment surveys are always to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Reference: Channelnewsasia article. See also my last year's post on the previous SMU cohort.
http://www.salary.sg/2008/smu-fresh-...ake-4k-to-10k/
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12-05-2008, 09:32 AM
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1629
I so chose the wrong place to study! Should have gone to SMU!
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12-05-2008, 12:11 PM
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1631
A 4 year university easily cost >$100k. This includes tuition fees, books & stationaries, lost of income for 4 years(assume $2k/mth,4 years = $96k), transport cost etc.
The recent chinese papers interviewed some beer ladies. They earn more than $2k a month including commissions. Sorry no offense intended, but if a graduate earns only $3k a month after spending so much time and money, he is worse than a beer lady.
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12-05-2008, 12:22 PM
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1632
I see many people in the previous post of Get Rich Seminars that they complain spending $3k on a 5 days course but I don't see people complain about spending >$100k and 4 years of a precious prime period of life on a university. Then only earn around a beer lady pay. Funny isn't?
And please, don't look down on beer ladies. One day they may become boss of a kopitiam. Remember that our Singapore's David Gan was a shampoo boy when he started out.
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12-05-2008, 02:44 PM
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1633
Just posted a thread discussion on this
http://www.youth.sg/forum/showthread.php?p=31541
Anyways this is only true for 69 respondents. So ohwell.
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12-05-2008, 02:52 PM
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1635
I think any U in order to boost and attract the number of students , will definitely claim that the starting salary is very high. SMU is relatively new and I view the news as an advertisement.
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13-05-2008, 07:34 AM
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1639
word on the street is that SMU grads are looked upon very favourably (I guess though if you were a top student from the other unis it would be the same).
Anyway, the difference between a grad and a beer lady earnings 2k+ a month is the option value and scalability attached to those earnings...
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13-05-2008, 09:36 AM
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1640
I am from NTU and my some of my peers are earning 2500 still after 3 years. I find it strange that if starting pay for fresh grads are more than 3K why wouldn't their bosses tag their salaries to the norm? I would take SMU's figures with a pinch of salt, remember their M is not just for Management, but for Marketing as well.
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