Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1994

sector; and 30 per cent of the social wo rk graduates joined the social and public service sector. Seventy-five per cent of the music majors, 66 per cent of the Chinese/English graduates, and close to 80 per cent of the graduates from the physical education programme also served in the education sector. Some 12.8 per cent of the graduates changed their employers after graduation. About one fifth of these were social work graduates. The PDP graduates had an average working experience of 10.5 years, and their median monthly salary was $23,844. But some 18.4 per cent earned a salary of more than $30,000 per month. Higher-degree Graduates Of the 154 valid questionnaires returned from the 182 full-time higher-degree graduates, 99 indicated they had already started work; 36 were engaged in further studies; one was employed overseas; three returned to their place of origin; one was travelling; one emigrated abroad; three remained unemployed for personal reasons; and 10 were still seeking suitable employment at the time of analysis. Graduate School Divisions (Not i nc l ud i ng the Di v i s i on of Business Administration) Of the 150 full-time higher- degree graduates of 1993 (except MBAs), 123 responded to the survey. About 59 per cent of them were in employment, an d 29.3 per cent too k up further studies after graduation. Over 60 per cent of those working were employed in the education sector, 4.2 per cent joined the civil service, 2.8 per cent joined the social service sector, and 31.9 per cent were employed in the business sector. Teaching was still the chief occupation of higher-degree graduates, and accounted for 38.9 per cent of the employment cases. Research (26.4 per cent) and computer (13.9 per cent) were the two other major career fields which attracted the higher-degree graduates. The median monthly salary of the graduates was $14,600. Some 53 per cent of them earned a monthly salary i n the range of $14,000-$19,999, while 14.3 per cent earned more than $20,000 per month. Two-Year MBA Programme Of the 32 MBA students who graduated in 1993, 31 responded to the survey. Ninety-three per cent of them joined the business sector upon graduation. As in the previous year, their major career fields were administration / managemen t (44.5 per cent), marketing (25.9 per cent), banking (7.4 per cent), and finance/investment (7.4 per cent). About 77 per cent of the MBA graduates earned a monthly salary in the $11,000- $14,999 range, while 15.3 per cent earned more than $15,000 per month. The median monthly salary was $13,250. Some 85 per cent of the MBA graduates received their first appointment offers by the end of July. The average number of offers received was 2.8. Distribution of Higher-Degree Graduates (except MBAs) in Employment: by Occupational Sector D... Of the 65 full-time diplomates who graduated i n 1993, 63 responded to the survey. Fifty- nine of them were engaged in full-time employment; one was pursuing further studies; one returned to his place of origin; one was still seeking suitable employment at the time of analysis; and one remained unemployed for personal reasons. Most of the diplomates (89.8 per cent) chose teaching as their career after their training, and the majority of them were teaching in subsidized schools. Employment Survey of 1993 Graduates 30