Options after graduation: Entering the workforce


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GETTING a job after a degree may be just the most conventional path taken by most graduates. 

The Graduate Tracer Study carried out by then Higher Education Ministry found that 30% of first degree graduates were employed with a basic salary of more than RM2,500 in 2012 while the Department of Statistics puts the figure of graduate unemployment at 65,000 in the same year.

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