Private Education Institution Graduate Employment Survey 2024/2025
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Last updated 8 April 2026
Private Education Institution Graduate Employment Survey 2024/2025
SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) conducts the annual Private Education Institution (PEI) Graduate Employment Survey (GES) to survey employment outcomes of fresh graduates from full-time Bachelor’s level External Degree Programmes (EDPs) offered by PEIs in Singapore. All PEIs offering EDPs are required to participate in the survey.
For prospective students seeking higher education, the PEI GES findings enable you to make a more informed course decision.
The 2024/2025 survey, conducted from October 2025 to January 2026, received 61.6% responses from about 6,150 full-time graduates across 26 PEIs.
Key Survey Results
Definitions of the employment indicators can be found in Annex A.
Table 1: Employment outcomes across PEI fresh graduates from the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 cohorts, in comparison with AUs and Post-National Service Polytechnic graduates from the 2025 cohort
Employment outcomes remain stable with 78.9% of graduates in 2024/2025 securing employment within six months of graduation, comparable to 78.6% in 2023/2024
Employment Indicators | Private Education Institutions | AUs1 | Post-National Service Polytechnic Graduates2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Proportion of Graduates in the Labour Force who had/ were: | 2023/2024 | 2024/2025 | 2025 | 2025 |
Secured Employment | 78.6% | 78.9% | 88.9% | 93.1% |
Currently Employed | 74.8% | 75.9% | 83.4% | 90.7% |
In Full-Time Permanent (FTP) Employment | 46.4% | 46.9% | 74.4% | 66.2% |
Freelancing | 4.2% | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5.8% |
In Part-time/Temporary (PTT) Employment | 24.2% | 24.0% | 7.2% | 18.7% |
Voluntary PTT | 17.3% | 14.3% | 4.1% | 16.3% |
Involuntary PTT | 6.9% | 9.7% | 3.1% | 2.3% |
Accepted a Job Offer and | 2.8% | 2.4% | 5.1% | 1.6% |
Taking Active Steps to Start a Business Venture | 1.0% | 0.6% | .5% | 0.8% |
Not Secured Employment | 21.4% | 21.1% | 11.1% | 6.9% |
1 Based on findings of 2025 Joint AU Graduate Employment Survey (JAUGES) released on 5 March 2026.
2 Based on findings of 2025 Joint Polytechnic Graduate Employment Survey released on 15 January 2026.
Notes:
Figures may not add up due to rounding.
Starting this year, to provide a fuller picture of graduates' employment status, graduates who secured employment (i.e. they were employed, accepted a job offer and were starting later, or were taking active steps to start a business venture) are reported as one category.
Table 2: Employment outcomes of PEI graduates from full-time external degree programmes by institution (for institutions with 10 or more respondents)
Median gross monthly salary for PEI fresh graduates in full-time permanent employment remained stable at $3,500.
No | Private Education Institutions1 | Proportion of Graduates in the Labour Force | Median Gross Monthly Salary (Full-Time Permanent Employment) | Response Rate2 | No. of Fresh Graduate Respondents in the Labour Force | ||
Secured Employment | Currently Employed | In Full-Time Permanent Employment | |||||
1 | SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT | 81.0% | 77.9% | 47.0% | $3,565 | 61.4% | 1,726 |
2 | ERC INSTITUTE | 78.8% | 78.8% | 57.6% | $3,400 | 54.4% | 33 |
3 | KAPLAN HIGHER | 77.3% | 73.5% | 43.2% | $3,400 | 64.9% | 264 |
4 | JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY | 76.3% | 73.1% | 45.2% | $3,700 | 61.0% | 93 |
5 | MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE | 76.2% | 73.0% | 52.4% | $3,580 | 69.1% | 63 |
6 | PSB ACADEMY | 74.6% | 72.3% | 47.5% | $3,500 | 64.6% | 354 |
7 | CURTIN EDUCATION CENTRE | 63.6% | 61.4% | 43.2% | $3,350 | 58.3% | 44 |
1 Results of PEIs with fewer than 10 respondents are not published as there are too few economically active fresh graduate respondents for the data to be meaningful.
2 Response rate refers to the percentage of graduates from full-time degree programmes in PEIs who responded to the survey, excluding international students without valid pass type and did not respond to the survey. The calculation has been revised to better reflect response rate amongst graduates in the Singapore labour market.
Table 3: Employment outcomes of PEI fresh graduates from full-time external degree programmes by course clusters
Proportion of fresh graduates securing employment across all course clusters remained comparable between survey cohorts
Course Cluster | Proportion of Graduates in the Labour Force who had/were | Median Gross Monthly Salary (Full-Time Permanent Employment) | ||||||||
Secured Employment | Currently Employed | In Full-Time Permanent Employment | Full-Time Permanent Employment | |||||||
2023/2024 | 2024/2025 | 2023/2024 | 2024/2025 | 2023/2024 | 2024/2025 | 2023/2024 | 2024/2025 | 2023/2024 | 2024/2025 | |
Arts, Design & Media | 76.7% | 78.2% | 70.0% | 74.4% | 26.7% | 25.6% | $3,200^ | $3,100^ | $3,200^ | $3,100^ |
Business | 81.8% | 82.8% | 77.6% | 79.1% | 50.1% | 48.1% | $3,483 | $3,500 | $3,483 | $3,500 |
Engineering | 70.2% | 74.2% | 68.1% | 71.9% | 55.3% | 49.4% | $3,500^ | $3,900 | $3,500^ | $3,900 |
Health Sciences^ | 94.4% | 94.1% | 77.8% | 94.1% | 66.7% | 76.5% | $4,000 | $3,935 | $4,000 | $3,935 |
Humanities & Social Sciences | 79.4% | 81.6% | 76.5% | 78.5% | 39.8% | 44.1% | $3,500 | $3,500 | $3,500 | $3,500 |
Information & Digital Technologies | 70.0% | 67.7% | 66.4% | 65.8% | 43.4% | 45.2% | $4,080 | $3,900 | $4,080 | $3,900 |
Sciences | 78.0% | 82.0% | 76.2% | 80.2% | 51.8% | 57.5% | $3,350 | $3,550 | $3,350 | $3,550 |
All PEI Courses | 78.6% | 78.9% | 74.8% | 75.9% | 46.4% | 46.9% | $3,500 | $3,500 | $3,500 | $3,500 |
^Employment outcomes should be interpreted with caution due to a small sample size (n<30)
View the full list of course clusters and courses here.
Table 4: List of registered Private Education Institutions with graduates from full-time external degree programmes that participated in PEI GES 2024/2025
1 | ACADEMIES AUSTRALASIA COLLEGE | 14 | MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE |
2 | AMITY GLOBAL INSTITUTE | 15 | PARKWAY COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH# |
3 | BEACON INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE | 16 | PSB ACADEMY |
4 | CURTIN EDUCATION CENTRE | 17 | RAFFLES COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION |
5 | DIMENSIONS INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE | 18 | S P JAIN SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT |
6 | EAST ASIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT | 19 | SHELTON COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL |
7 | EHL CAMPUS (SINGAPORE) | 20 | SHRM COLLEGE |
8 | ERAU ASIA INSTITUTE | 21 | SINGAPORE COLLEGE OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE |
9 | ERC INSTITUTE | 22 | SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT |
10 | ESSEC | 23 | SINGAPORE RAFFLES MUSIC COLLEGE |
11 | JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY | 24 | SISH INSTITUTE |
12 | KAPLAN HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY | 25 | STANFORT ACADEMY |
13 | LONDON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & FINANCE | 26 | TMC ACADEMY |
#Parkway College of Nursing and Allied Health was deregistered as a PEI on 1 June 2025
Private Education Institutions are arranged in alphabetical order