31 October 2017

Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) graduates have benefitted from longer, more in-depth internships and work attachments during their school term. The additional work experience has earned them better job offers and higher starting salaries upon graduation.

SIT requires its students to take up eight-month to year-long internships. In comparison, Singapore students typically take on internships lasting six months for university students and three for polytechnic ones.

SIT president Tan Thiam Soon said the university’s work-study programme is structured in a unique and distinct way for each degree programme, catering to the specific needs of the industry.

Of the second batch of 96 accountancy students from SIT who graduated this month, 83 of them received job offers from the companies that they had interned with.

Of the 19 hospitality students who took on jobs for eight months in the tourism industry, hotels and event management companies, 12 of them received job offers upon completing their work attachments.