PSB Academy


PSB Academy offers Certificate, Diploma, Bachelor's and master's degree programmes in Singapore. PSB Academy is registered under the Committee for Private Education Singapore.

History

Once a division of Singapore's National Productivity Board, the Management Services Supervisory Development division was formalised into a full-fledged institution - the Institute for Productivity Training in 1988, with the aim of upgrading the knowledge and skills of the workforce.
It was later corporatised in 2001 and privatised in 2006.

Ownership

PSB Academy has two campuses in Singapore. The city campus is located at Marina Square, while the STEM campus is located at Jackson Square in Toa Payoh.

Graduate employment

In a survey conducted by Committee for Private Education on employment outcomes of 2018, graduates of PSB Academy achieved a 45.3% full-time employment rate in comparison with 78.4% for their peers from three autonomous universities - the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University. This result is lower than post-national service polytechnic graduates who's full-time employment rate was 64%. The response rate to the survey was 21%.
It also revealed that PSB Academy graduates earned median gross starting salaries of $2,500 a month, while NUS, NTU and SMU graduates earned $3,400. Post-NS polytechnic graduates earned $2,480 a month.

Accreditations