IV. THE ANALYSIS
The analysis is based on 3 categories of data that are characteristic, opinion and expectation as in Table II and Table III. The questions that do not have any response were considered missing.
A. Characteristic
In characteristic element, the survey identified the properties of the final year students which include graduates’ specialisation background, ages, personals (gender and race) and types of company they joined for the industrial training. As mentioned, all the respondents were major in software engineering specialisation. Their age was between 21 to 22 years old, all Chinese, consisted of 7 males and 13 females.
The types of company the respondents joined during their industrial training are shown in Fig. 1: 10% of the respondents joined Government Agencies (GA), 5% joined Public Higher Learning Education (PHLE), 30% joined Small/Medium Companies (SMC) and the highest rate that is 40% of the respondents joined Multi-national Companies (MNC) and finally 3 respondents (30%) did research training at USM instead of industrial training (OTH).