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Graduates by institutions

Education

Graduates by institutions

Data from Jan 1983 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 10 Dec 2024, 11:37 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

  1. Intake figures include students who entered directly into the second and subsequent years.

  2. University figures are for full-time first degree only.

  3. National Institute of Education (NIE) figures are for Diplomas and Post-graduate Diplomas in education-related subjects. BA / BSc (Education) figures are included under Nanyang Technological University. There is an increase in the AY2023 figures from previous years due to changes in how the figures are accounted.

  4. Polytechnic figures are for full-time diploma courses only.

  5. LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) first degree figures are for publicly-funded full-time courses (started in 2012 and 2011 respectively) only.

  6. Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was established in 1992 to replace the former Vocational & Industrial Training Board. ITE figures exclude apprentices.

Data explorer

Graduatesbyinstitutions.csv (82 rows, 5.4 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Nus
Text
Ntu
Text
Smu
Text
Sit
Text
Sutd
Text
Suss
Text
Nie
Text
Singapore Polytechnic
Text
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Text
Temasek Polytechnic
Text
Nanyang Polytechnic
Text
Republic Polytechnic
Text
Lasalle Diploma
Text
Lasalle Degree
Text
Nafa Diploma
Text
Nafa Degree
Text
Ite
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
F50.0%
MF50.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)48.8%
(Null)70.7%
(Null)78.0%
(Null)85.4%
1121.2%
1681.2%
1801.2%
2511.2%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)19.5%
(Null)26.8%
(Null)56.1%
(Null)53.7%
(Null)73.2%
(Null)53.7%
(Null)73.2%
122.4%
183.7%
192.4%
222.4%
(Null)0.0%
1983MF2905059716249286779
1983F15080453316343905
1984MF34090875177312936281
1984F182606873714561785
1985MF3454557531186215437597
1985F2117564074105892300
1986MF3860661756225819318472
1986F2476645804947652638
1987MF3974664852254027108797
1987F23901046796779442851

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
SexsexText--
NusnusText--
NtuntuText--
SmusmuText--
SitsitText--
SutdsutdText--
SusssussText--
NienieText--
Singapore Polytechnicsingapore_polytechnicText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_06067a3d18f8a5779acfbf19c62cb656"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Education. (2019). Graduates by institutions (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_06067a3d18f8a5779acfbf19c62cb656/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sgsong_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

12 Nov 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)