The number of local university graduates from technology-related courses is set to grow by two-thirds by 2022. 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. This comes amid a hunger for such talent as Singapore embarks on its Smart Nation journey, and companies ramp up hiring for roles such as data scientists and artificial intelligence specialists. In the last three years, IT graduates consistently emerged as the top salary earners, according to joint graduate employment surveys by NUS, NTU and SMU.
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