StanfordPhD Employment )Careerpreparation forphdsisanational &Stanfordpriority )PhDAlumni EmploymentData Colection 3)PhDAlumniinthe Study 4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? ) Clickiconformobilesite (thenpinchtoresizepagetofitscreen) TheProject DoctoraleducationisanimportantpartofStanford seducationalmission;overhalfofalstanfordgraduatestudentsarepursuingaphd Inthelastfifteenyears,Stanfordhasgrantedover0,000PhDsThesealumniaremakinganimpactaroundtheworldAkeypartof helpingstanfordphdstudentspreparefortheirnewrolesbeyondtheuniversityisbeterunderstandingtheemploymentopportunities availabletostanfordphds Thiswebsitecontainsinformationontheemploymentoutcomesfor,40StanfordPhDgraduatesThesedatawerecolectedduringa year-longprojectconductedin03byinstitutionalresearch&decisionsupport(ir&ds)incolaborationwiththeoficeforthevice ProvostofGraduate(VPGE)IR&DSresearchersemployedasystematicinternetsearchprocesstocolectpubliclyavailable informationoninitialandcurentemploymentfortwocohortblocksofstanfordphdrecipients Thetabsacrossthetopofthepagewilalowyoutonavigateacross0diferentinteractivedatadisplaysTheseinteractivevisualizationsaredesignedtohelpyouexplorethedataonyourownandtofindoutmoreaboutemploymentopportunitiesforStanfordPhDgraduates Note:Intabswithinteractivedatayoucanalwaysclickonthecircularorange"back"arowtoreturntotheoriginalview IfyouhaveanyquestionsaboutthiswebsiteorthePhDEmploymentProject,pleasecontact: BrianCook(bcook@stanfordedu) IR&DS
StanfordPhD Employment )Careerpreparation forphdsisanational &Stanfordpriority )PhDAlumni EmploymentData Colection 3)PhDAlumniinthe Study 4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? ) CareerPathwaysforStanfordPhDs StanfordPhDAlumniareemployedinavarietyofsectorsFor thisprojectphdalumniemploymentwascategorizedintofour sectors:academia,,governmentandnonprofit
StanfordPhD Employment )Careerpreparation forphdsisanational &Stanfordpriority )PhDAlumni EmploymentData Colection 3)PhDAlumniinthe Study 4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? ) EmploymentDataPoints Clickhereformoreinformationabout howthisstudywasconducted (opensanewtab)
StanfordPhD Employment )Careerpreparation forphdsisanational &Stanfordpriority )PhDAlumni EmploymentData Colection 3)PhDAlumniinthe Study 4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? ) PhDAlumniintheStudy ClickheretoseeabreakdownofPhDalumnibydepartment (opensanewbrowsertab)
)Careerpreparation forphdsisanational &Stanfordpriority )PhDAlumni EmploymentData Colection 3)PhDAlumniinthe Study 4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? )Howdoesinitial 8 ) 9 308 NaturalSciences 306 3 6 36 6 PhDProgram Nonprofit 69 InfoNotPublic 64 Government 8 596 Academic,060 InitialSector InitialCareerPathwaysofStanfordPhDAlumni? Hoverhereforhelp withthispage
)PhDAlumni EmploymentData Colection 3)PhDAlumniinthe Study 4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? )Howdoesinitial 8)Howdoescurent 9 ) INITIALEmploymentSector 44% ofphdalumni(combiningcohorts)inthestudywereinitialyemployedintheacademicsector(includingfaculty,postdocs&academicstaf)and3% inthebusiness,governmentandnon-profitsectors For5% ofgraduates,noemploymentinformationwaspublicalyavailableonline (UsethefiltersontherighttoseehowthedistributionacrosssectorsdifersacrossPhDprogramsand cohorts) AcademicArea NaturalSciences Law Clickonaprogram tofilterthechart (Clickagaintoreset) 44%,060 Cohort 5% 596 5% 64 Clickonacohorttofilterthechart (Clickagaintoreset) 8 Academic Government Nonprofit InfoNotPublic 69
3)PhDAlumniinthe Study 4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? )Howdoesinitial 8)Howdoescurent 9)Whoinitialy employedstanford 0 CURRENTEmploymentSector 8% ofgraduateshadpubliclyavailableinformationabouttheircurentemployment45% ofthetotalnumberof graduateswerecurentlyemployed(in03)intheacademicsector,asfaculty,postdocs,orstaf,while wereiningovernment,business,andthenon-profitsectors (UsethefiltersontherighttoseehowthedistributionacrosssectorsdifersacrossPhDprogramsandcohorts) AcademicArea NaturalSciences Law Clickonaprogram tofilterthechart (Clickagaintoreset) 45%,0 Cohort 3% 8% 44 Clickonacohorttofilterthechart (Clickagaintoreset) % 5 Academic Government Nonprofit InfoNotPublic
4)Initialcareer pathwaysofstanford PhDalumni 5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? )Howdoesinitial 8)Howdoescurent 9)Whoinitialy employedstanford 0)Whocurently employsstanford Academic BGN InfoNotPublic Bus,Law&Ed Natural Sciences Bus,Law&Ed Natural Sciences Bus,Law&Ed Natural Sciences % 4 35% 4 4 3 46% 43 6% 59 64% 5 64 4 395 36% 4 36% 09 3% 95 6% 4 % 9 9% 44 3 80 8% 33 % 66 0 60 9% 9 % 6 Includesfaculty, postdocs&staf,govt, &Nonprofit Clickonthebarstotherightto seehowthedistributionacross sectorsdifersbycohort (Clickagaintoreset) PhDalumnifrom,Lawand programshadthehighestpercentageofinitial employmentintheacademicsector PhDshadthehighestpercentageof initialemploymentinthebusiness,government andnonprofitsectors Researcherswereabletofindinitialemploymentinformationfor89% of,law&alumni andover5% ofsocial,naturalandbio-science PhDs,and alumnihadthelowestpercentageofavailableonline initialemploymentdata(about foreach) INITIALEmploymentSectorbyAcademicArea Cohort
5)Inwhichsectors werestanfordphds initialyemployed? 6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? )Howdoesinitial 8)Howdoescurent 9)Whoinitialy employedstanford 0)Whocurently employsstanford )Whatacademic positionsdophd alumniinitialytake? Academic BGN InfoNotPublic Bus,Law&Ed Natural Sciences Bus,Law&Ed Natural Sciences Bus,Law&Ed Natural Sciences 9% 66 38% 44 39% 0 4% 9 56 65% 5 % 0 48% 438 4 50 45% 39 4% 8 4% 63 4% 55 8 4% 8 9% 5% 4 % 5 6% 4 % 35,Govt, &Nonprofit Includesfaculty, postdocs&staf Clickonacohort (Clickagaintoreset) % ofphdswerecurrentlyemployedintheacademicsectorthisincludesemploymentinfaculty,postdocandacademicstafpositions Over ofphdalumnifrom and Earth,Natural,Socialandwerecurrentlyemployedinthebusinessgovernmentand non-profitsectors FormostPhDprograms,researchersfoundcurrentemploymentdatafor ormoreofalumni CURRENTEmploymentSectorbyAcademicArea Cohort
6)Inwhichsectorsare StanfordPhDs curentlyemployed? )Howdoesinitial 8)Howdoescurent 9)Whoinitialy employedstanford 0)Whocurently employsstanford )Whatacademic positionsdophd alumniinitialytake? )Whatacademic positionsdoalumni curentlyhold? 3 InitialTopEmployers(US) StanfordUniversity UniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley HarvardUniversity Intel UniversityofCalifornia-SanFrancisco MassachusetsInstituteofTechnology Google NorthwesternUniversity YaleUniversity CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology SandiaNationalLaboratories NewYorkUniversity CornelUniversity PrincetonUniversity Mckinsey&Company UniversityofCalifornia-SanDiego Hoveroverabarsegment toseemoreinformation PhDalumniwerespreadoutacrossawidevarietyofinitialemployers StanfordwasthetopoveralinitialemployerofPhDrecipientsincluding postdoctoralappointments,employing9ofthe,40alumniinthe studyintelandgooglewerethetopinitialemployersinthebusiness sector,employingprimarilyandnaturalsciencealumni (Usethefiltersontherighttoseehowemployersvarybysector,PhD program andgeographiclocation) Clickonasector,program,and/orstate tofilterthelistofemployers (Clickagaintoclear) InitialSector Academic Government Nonprofit AcademicArea NaturalSciences InitialState Law UniversityofWashington-SeatleCampus ColumbiaUniversity Microsoft UniversityofIlinoisatUrbana-Champaign 0 0 40 60 80 00 0 40 60 80 00 0 9 3 4 3 844 4 0 0 8 00 50 90 5 35 5 3 38 4
)Howdoesinitial 8)Howdoescurent 9)Whoinitialy employedstanford 0)Whocurently employsstanford )Whatacademic positionsdophd alumniinitialytake? )Whatacademic positionsdoalumni curentlyhold? 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4 CurentTopEmployers(US) StanfordUniversity Google MassachusetsInstituteofTechnology Intel UniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley HarvardUniversity UniversityofCalifornia-SanFrancisco NorthwesternUniversity PrincetonUniversity NewYorkUniversity UniversityofCalifornia-Davis UniversityofCalifornia-Irvine ColumbiaUniversity UniversityofCalifornia-LosAngeles UniversityofCalifornia-SanDiego Genentech UniversityofPennsylvania Therewasawiderdistributionofalumiacrossdiferentcurent employers(in03)thaninitialemployersstanfordwasthe topcurentemployerofstanfordphdalumni,butemployed only00ofthe,40phdrecipientsinthestudyinthebusinesssector,googleandintelemployedthemoststanford PhDs (Usethefiltersontherighttoseehowemployersvaryby sector,phdprogram andgeographiclocation) Clickonasector,program,and/orstate tofilterthelistofemployers (Clickagaintoclear) CurentSect Academic Government Nonprofit AcademicArea NaturalSciences Law CurentState DukeUniversity UniversityofMichigan-AnnArbor UniversityofSouthernCalifornia UniversityofWashington-SeatleCampus 0 0 0 30 40 50 60 0 80 90 00 3 9 9 5 4 9 44 5 4 30 3 68 0 6 8 3 4 55 3
8)Howdoescurent 9)Whoinitialy employedstanford 0)Whocurently employsstanford )Whatacademic positionsdophd alumniinitialytake? )Whatacademic positionsdoalumni curentlyhold? 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5 TenureTrack Non-Tenure- Track Postdoc International* OtherAcademic BGN InfoNotPublic % 35 6% 85 4% 53 4% 43 % 09 5 % 8 % 84 4% 56 4% 46 3 48 8% 38 4% 305 8% 34 Comparingthetwocohortsinthestudy,acrossmostprograms,asmalerpercentageofgraduates from the5yearoutcohortinitialytookatenure-trackpositionintheacademicsectorthanphdrecipientsfrom 0yearoutcohortThiswasparticularlytrueinthe,and Inthe,amuchlargerpercentageofthe5-yearcohortwentintobusiness, governmentandnon-profitsectorjobsthanofthe0-yearcohort,whichhadalargerinitialpercentageofalumniinpostdocpositions (UsethefilterontherighttocomparethedistributionofpositiontypesacrossPhDprograms),Govt, &Nonprofit INITIALPositionTypebyCohort NaturalSciences Law AcademicArea Clickonaprogram above tofiltertheview (Clickagaintoclear) *Note:Positiontypesnotdifferentiatedatnon-USUniversities
9)Whoinitialy employedstanford 0)Whocurently employsstanford )Whatacademic positionsdophd alumniinitialytake? )Whatacademic positionsdoalumni curentlyhold? 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6 TenureTrack Non-Tenure- Track Postdoc International* OtherAcademic BGN InfoNotPublic % 65 9% 340 44 3 5% 64 4 % 9 5% 6 4% 4 39% 496 35% 405 9% 36 8% 3 Comparingthetwocohorts,acrossmostprograms,asmalerpercentageofgraduateswhoreceivedtheirdegree5yearsagowerecurentlyemployedinatenure-trackpositionintheacademic sectorthanphdrecipientsfrom 0yearsagoIntheafifthofthe5-yearcohortwas stilinpostdocpositions(5yearsafterreceivingtheirdegree) (UsethefilterontherighttocomparethedistributionofpositiontypesacrossPhDprograms),Govt, &Nonprofit CURRENTPositionType NaturalSciences Law AcademicArea Clickonaprogram above tofiltertheview (Clickagaintoclear) *Note:Positiontypesnotdiferentiatedatnon-USUniversities
0)Whocurently employsstanford )Whatacademic positionsdophd alumniinitialytake? )Whatacademic positionsdoalumni curentlyhold? 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6)Department Comparison:Initial Clickonaprogram above tofiltertheview (Clickagaintoclear) Doctoral Granting Master's Granting Bachelor's Granting International OtherInstitution BGN InfoNotPublic 3% 400 3% 33 % 4 % 6 % 8 % 6 % 8 % 84 % 6 % 3 48 8% 38 4% 300 % 38 Inaggregate,alargepercentageofPhDrecipientsfrom bothcohortsinitialyemployedinthe academicsectorworkedindoctoralgrantinginstitutionsinthe,asignificantly smalerpercentageofgraduateswhoreceivedtheirdegree5yearsagowereinitialyemployed indoctoralinstitutionscomparedwithphdswhoreceivedtheirdegree0yearsagoincontrast, alargerpercentageofthe5-yearcohortwasemployedinthebusiness,government andnon-profitsectorsthanofthe0-yearcohorttherearealsointerestingdiferencesininitial institutiontypebetweenthecohortsinthenaturalsciences,,and (UsethefilterontherighttocomparethedistributionofinstitutiontypesacrossPhDprograms),Govt, &Nonprofit INITIALInstitutionType NaturalSciences Law AcademicArea
)Whatacademic positionsdophd alumniinitialytake? )Whatacademic positionsdoalumni curentlyhold? 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6)Department Comparison:Initial )Department Comparison:Curent 8 Clickonaprogram above tofiltertheview (Clickagaintoclear) Doctoral Granting Master's Granting Bachelor's Granting International Other Institution BGN InfoNotPublic 8% 35 9% 33 39 4% 4 % 0 3 % 89 % 8 % 6 39% 496 35% 405 9% 39 8% 09 Thereweresmalerdiferencesbetweencohortsincurentinstitutiontypesthaninitialinstitution typesacrossmostprograms,thelargestpercentagesofgraduatesworkedineitherdoctoral grantinginstitutionsorinbusiness,governmentandnonprofitinstitutionsgraduateswereemployedacrossthewidestvarietyofacademicinstitutiontypesandhadthelowest representationinbusiness,governmentandnonprofitinstitutions (UsethefilterontherighttocomparethedistributionofinstitutiontypesacrossPhDprograms),Govt, &Nonprofit CURRENTInstitutionType NaturalSciences Law AcademicArea
)Whatacademic positionsdoalumni curentlyhold? 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6)Department Comparison:Initial )Department Comparison:Curent 8)PhDEmployment Data:Individual Departments CurentSectorCurentEmployer CurentJobTitle(BGN) 3andMe PrincipalProductScientist SeniorScienceContentManager 9Design FoundingPartner AavidThermaloy PrincipalThermalEngineer Abbot Manager Abbvie SeniorScientistI AccentureTechnologyLabs ResearchManager AccretiveHealth ChiefDataScientist Acuitis,Inc SoftwareEngineer Staf AdamantTechnologies DirectorofProcessDevelopment Adobe SeniorComputerScientist AdvancedCelDiagnostics Director AdvancedMaterialsApplications,LLC OwnerandMaterialsConsultant AdvancedResourcesandRiskTechnology CEO/Founder AECOM SeniorGeologist AerionCorporation Engineer AfterColege Co-Founder Agawi VideoTechnologist AgilentTechnologies ResearchScientist Scientist,GenomicsR&D AgiosPharmaceuticals AssociateDirector AMECEnvironmental&InfrastructureUKLimited Engineer AmericanExpress Director,MachineLearning Amgen DirectorofDrugProduct PrincipalScientist Scientist Amyris,Inc PrincipalQualityEngineer AnalogDevices NewProductManager AnalysisGroup Manager Aon AVP(Actuarial) ApoloGlobalManagementLLC InvestmentProfessional Curent(03)EmployersandJobTitlesforAlumniin,Gov&Non-ProfitSectors (US) NaturalSciences Law AcademicArea 68 9 44 4 55 5 6 3 3 9 0 30 9 3 4 4 8 9 9 CurentState Hoveroveranemployerorjobtitletosee program andstateinformationbelow Clickonaprogram orstatebelowtofilter jobs (Clickonitagaintocleartheview)
) 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6)Department Comparison:Initial )Department Comparison:Curent 8)PhDEmployment Data:Individual Departments PhDNumbersby Department History Academic BGN InfoNot Public Academic BGN InfoNot Public Economics Academic BGN InfoNot Public ComputerScience Academic BGN InfoNot Public 3 5 9 % 4 4% 4% % 5 59% 43 44 9% 8% 3 % 5% 8 48% 5 4% 3 9% 0 3 5 6 39% 6 6% 30 4% 0 9 INITIALEmploymentSectorbyDepartment&Cohort Usethedropdownmenutocomparedepartments(limitselectionstoamaxof4departmentsforbestresults) Department(s) MultipleValues
) 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6)Department Comparison:Initial )Department Comparison:Curent 8)PhDEmployment Data:Individual Departments PhDNumbersby Department History Academic BGN InfoNot Public Academic BGN InfoNot Public Economics Academic BGN InfoNot Public ComputerScience Academic BGN InfoNot Public 3 5 9 65% 5 94% 9 4% 3 6% 65% 4 58% 4 9% 6% 9 6% 0 6% 48% 5 4 5 48% 5 46% 6 % 4 6% % 6% 30 46% 9 8% 8 % CURRENTEmploymentSectorbyDepartment&Cohort Usethedropdownmenutocomparedepartments(limitselectionstoamaxof4departmentsforbestresults) Department(s) MultipleValues
) 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6)Department Comparison:Initial )Department Comparison:Curent 8)PhDEmployment Data:Individual Departments PhDNumbersby Department ChooseanAcademicArea Al ChooseaDepartment: Al PhDEmploymentData:InitialSector AcademicArea:Al Department:Al ChooseTypeofEmploymentData: InitialSector? Academic Government Nonprofit InfoNotPublic 45% 58 4 54 % 49 8% 34 % 36 4% 98 4% 45 36 34 35
) 3)Whattypeof institutionsinitialy 4)Whattypeof institutionscurently 5)Whatbusiness, gov&nonprojfitjobs dophdalumnihave? 6)Department Comparison:Initial )Department Comparison:Curent 8)PhDEmployment Data:Individual Departments PhDNumbersby Department AcademicArea Department TotalPhDs Biology Neurosciences Genetics CancerBiology Biophysics Biochemistry DevelopmentalBiology Immunology BiomedicalInformatics MicrobiologyandImmunology ChemicalandSystemsBiology MolecularPharmacology MolecularandCelularPhysiology StructuralBiology Total Geological&EnvironmentalSciences Geophysics Petroleum InterdisciplinaryProgram inenvironmentandresources Earth,EnergyandEnvironmentalSciences Total Electrical 33 6 3 8 8 30 5 308 5 8 5 9 3 9 3 38 66 PhDEmploymentProject:PhDsbyProgram anddepartment Usethedropdownmenusbelowtofilterthelistofprograms anddepartemnts AcademicProgram Al Department Al HoverovertheTotalPhDscolumnandclickonthe"+"iconto seeabreakdownofphdsby cohortandyear(clickon"-"to goback)youcanalsosortthe columnsusingthesorticonthat appearswhenyouhoverover columnheaders