IT grads set to grow in Singapore


Booming industry: In the last three years, IT graduates consistently emerged as the top salary earners. — The Straits Times/ANN

Singapore: The number of local university graduates from technology-related courses is set to grow by two-thirds by 2022, which experts say will go some way towards plugging the gap in the sector.

The intake for infocomm and digital technology courses across the six autonomous universities shot up from 1,250 in 2015 to 2,050 last year, fresh data from the Ministry of Education showed.

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