From NP: "The starting
salary for Diploma in Biomedical
Science graduates
typically ranges from $1,400 - 1,700 per month."
For degrees from local public universities, you should expect
between $1800-2800. $2400 is somewhat the average, for someone with
good honours. Salaries for private degree-holders will be slightly
lower.
Career-wise, prospect is low with a science degree.
Do make an effort to attend the universities' or polys'
openhouses, to find out more about the employment outcomes of their
graduates.
So far, what I see is that there's only 3 career pathways for
science grads:
1) Join private sector, as a glorified lab tech, aka research
assistant. You will have no chance of leading actual research, as
the minimum requisite for researchers is a PhD, and PhDs are
plentiful in this day and age.
2) Join private sector as a generalist, e.g. customer
service.
3) Become a teacher. Apparently 50% of science grads end up
working for MOE.
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As for engineering, it is a sunset industry, as Singapore
transits to a service economy.
Currently, Singapore has niche areas in the aerospace, marine,
pharmaceutical and petroleum sectors. Remunerations for engineers
working in these sectors are much better than let's say, civil,
mechanical, electrical engineers, who are more often associated
with the manufacturing and construction sector, which everyone
knows is dominated by cheap foreign talents.
Choose wisely.