Close to 90% of Yale-NUS graduates secured employment in six months

89 per cent of fresh graduates from Yale-NUS College’s (Yale-NUS) Class of 2022 in the labour force[1] were employed[2] within six months of completing their final examinations. The median gross monthly salary[3] of Yale-NUS graduates in full-time permanent employment in 2022 was S$5,000. This is based on the Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey 2022, which was conducted jointly by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and other Autonomous Universities (AUs) in Singapore.

According to the survey, the median gross starting salary of full-time permanently employed Yale-NUS graduates with Bachelor of Science with Honours degrees was S$6,038[4], while that for graduates with Bachelor of Arts with Honours degrees was S$4,600. For more details on the gross starting salaries of Yale-NUS graduates, please click here.

171 out of a total of 231 fresh graduates participated in the joint survey.

Yale-NUS graduates were employed in diverse industries, which include Financial and Insurance, Information & Communication, Business and Management Consultancy, Scientific Research & Development and Education.

Professor Joanne Roberts, President of Yale-NUS, said, “The Class of 2022 has done very well, and we are proud of how they are making a difference in diverse fields, while also caring about the important issues of today. I congratulate them for their achievements and hope they will continue to make good use of what they have learnt during their time at Yale-NUS to make an impact in Singapore and beyond.”

A Yale-NUS education promotes broad-based interdisciplinary learning across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities complemented by depth of expertise in one’s major. Students are led to draw connections between multiple fields, discover links across domains and connect these discoveries to topics and problems of contemporary society. By engaging with different academic disciplines, multiple traditions and ways of interacting with knowledge, this interdisciplinary learning enables students to develop critical thinking, cross-cutting competencies and the skills needed to address global issues.

Coco Oan, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Environmental Studies and a minor in Economics, works as an analyst at ENGIE Impact, which provides sustainability consulting services as part of the larger ENGIE Group. The courses that Coco took at Yale-NUS exposed her to the wide-ranging nature of sustainability. In particular, it piqued her interest in the interactions between economics and the environment.

“Yale-NUS College has delivered a comprehensive ‘package’ of an educational experience that I never imagined was possible. Not only has its courses pulled me in multiple directions and pushed me to formulate my own stances, its culture and values have inspired me to be a better human being in very intentional ways. Its embrace of complexities and balance between the theoretical and the practical have also helped prepare me for the working world,” said Coco.

Bernard Boey, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Sciences, joined Google as a software engineer. Apart from writing code, Bernard spends a lot of time thinking about product design, writing software documentation, analysing data, and collaborating with engineers and cross-functional partners.

Besides the software engineering skills developed through the courses he took for his major, Bernard shared that he benefitted greatly from Yale-NUS’ broad-based liberal arts and science curriculum. For example, the emphasis on clear writing and speaking in Philosophy courses, combined with his peer tutoring experiences, honed his ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Additionally, the Quantitative Reasoning and Psychology courses prepared him for his current role, where he conducts software experimentation.

Yale-NUS’ diverse community, globally-oriented curriculum, and emphasis on experiential and international experiences also prepare students to take on opportunities internationally.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Christian (Chris) Dimitrov began working as an associate at Alton Aviation Consultancy in Dubai, UAE. In his role, Chris conducts research on trends in the aviation industry, supports data analyses, and presents findings to the firm’s global client base. Chris shared that spending four years in Yale-NUS’ close-knit multicultural residential community made it easier for him to adapt to an international office environment and helped facilitate his move to a new region.

He added, “My four years at Yale-NUS have prepared me for life after graduation in significant ways. A large part of my job consists of problem-solving in ambiguous situations, which I credit the Common Curriculum for teaching me. By getting exposed to texts from different schools of thought, I learnt to be comfortable with material that I initially had little to no background knowledge of.”

Instead of entering the workforce immediately post-graduation, some Yale-NUS graduates have chosen to pursue further education. The Class of 2022 includes Rhodes Scholar Nur Hazeem Bin Abdul Nasser and Yenching Scholar Tan Hong Kai, who are pursuing their master’s degrees at the University of Oxford and Peking University respectively. Others from the Class of 2022 have gone on to pursue graduate studies at NUS and other top universities worldwide, including Princeton University and the University of Cambridge.

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[1] Graduates in the labour force refer to graduates who are either employed (i.e. working) or unemployed (i.e. not working but actively looking and available for a job).

[2] Employment refers to graduates working on a full-time permanent, part-time, temporary employment or freelancing basis.

[3] Gross Monthly Salary comprises basic salary, fixed allowances, over-time pay, commissions and other regular cash payments, before deduction of the employee’s CPF contributions and personal income tax. Employer’s CPF contributions, bonuses, stock options, other lump sum payments and payments-in-kind are excluded.

[4] Data is based on a sample size of fewer than 30 respondents.

For more information on our graduates, please visit https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/profiles-of-class-of-2022-graduates/

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