PhD Completions and Placement, Ten Year Trend 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 Overall 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011** 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 Average per Year Graduates 295 340 382 351 357 361 369 364 467 430 372 Percent of Graduates with Placement Info Grads Average Time to Degree in Years* 98% 9 96% 9 9 92% 9 8 71% 67% 89% 6.20 5.95 6.04 6.02 6.17 6.14 6.05 6.24 6.06 6.13 6.10 Grads Median Time to Degree in Years* 5.75 5.25 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.70 *Time to degree represents the time in years from the graduates' first admission to TGS until their graduation term. **Quarterly graduation started in Summer 2010. Each year spans Summer to Spring graduation terms. Placement Category Definitions Category Definition Academic: Includes teaching, research, and administrative positions at a university or college. Examples include Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Instructor, Lecturer, and Senior Research Associate Postdoctoral/Additional Training: Includes postdoctoral fellows, researchers, associates, and other training positions, such as residents and students pursuing additional degrees. Examples include Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Associate, Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Scholar, Medical Resident, and Student. Industry: Includes research, leadership, technical, and professional positions at private industries and businesses. Examples include Research Scientist, Research Engineer, Consultant, and CEO. Government/Non-Profit: Includes positions in local, state, and federal government organizations. Also includes research and leadership positions at non-profit organizations. Examples include Senior Staff Scientist, Research Analyst, Statistician, Economist, Psychologist, and Director. Other: Includes anyone who does not fit into the above categories. Examples include Clinical Psychologist, Homemaker, Teaching K-12, Self-Employed, Independent Scholar, Private Practioner, Physician and Deceased. Placement information is captured in the TGS PhD Placement Database using graduate responses from the Exit Survey and Survey of Earned Doctorates, and updated with the help of faculty and staff after each graduation. The database is intended to capture all first placement information, as well as all subsequent placements since graduation. This summary presents the placement information TGS has captured on graduate's first placements, including temporary positions, and a section on most recent placements. Over the past 10 years, an average of 89% of graduates in Overall have known placement information.for the 2012-2013 graduates, 286 out of 430 have known placements.
Academic Year Overall, PhD Graduates First Placement Category by Graduation Year, Ten Year Trend Number of Grads with Placement Info 2004-2005 2 6% 290 2005-2006 26% 324 2006-2007 3 22% 367 2007-2008 334 2008-2009 3 2 335 2009-2010 30% 42% 21% 333 2010-2011 3 22% 343 2011-2012 4 2 306 2012-2013 41% 21% 331 2013-2014 30% 286 10-Year Total 32% 2 3249 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Percent of Graduates with Placement Information Academic Post Doc/Add'l Training Industry Gov't/Non-Profit Other
Placement Category All PhD Graduates, 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 Combined First Placement Category by Broad Field Category Arts and Humanities 7 1 6% Life Sciences 11% 71% 12% Physical Sciences, Mathematics, & Engineering Plus 26% Social and Behavioral Sciences-Qual 47% 3 8% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Percent of Graduates with Placement Information Academic Post Doc/Add'l Training Industry Gov't/Non-Profit Other
Overall PhD Graduates, 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 Combined Academic and Postdoctoral/Additional Training Carnegie Classification of Known First Placements Other Baccalaureate Foreign Institutes 1 Research/Doctoral Universities 52% Master's Colleges and Universities 6% Northwestern University (Research University) 19% Academic and Postdoctoral/Additional Training Placements of Known Institutions = 1934 The Carnegie Classification provides categories for all U.S. Higher Education institutions into one of the following general areas: Research/doctoral universities are institutions that offer a variety of baccalaureate degrees and award at least ten doctoral degrees per year across at least three academic disciplines or at least twenty doctoral degrees per year overall. Master's colleges and universities are institutions that offer a variety of baccalaureate degrees and award twenty or more master's degrees per year. Baccalaureate colleges are institutions that award baccalaureate degrees. Other includes colleges awarding associate degrees and specialized institutions that award degrees in a particular field such as medical and law schools, religious institutions, schools of business, engineering, art, design, and military institutes. Also included are foreign institutions outside of the U.S. that award higher education degrees. * Excludes not-for-profit and government positions.
Overall PhD Graduates, 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 Combined Academic and Postdoctoral/Additional Training of Known First Placements U.S. News and World Report 2013 Rankings for National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges Rank Not Published Not Ranked 10% Top 150+ Top 126-150 Top 101-125 Top 76-100 Northwestern University (Top 25) 2 Top 51-75 9% Top 26-50 1 Top 25 27% Academic and Postdoctoral/Additional Training Placements of Known Institutions* = 1635 The figure above shows the U.S. News and World Report ranking of national universities and liberal arts colleges where Northwestern University PhD graduates first placed in an academic or postdoctoral position at a U.S. institution. * Excludes foreign and not-for-profit and government positions.
Overall PhD Graduates, 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 Combined Top 25 Most Frequent Employers by First Placement Category, listed first by frequency, then alphebetically Academic Not-for-Profit/Government Industry Post-Doctoral Northwestern University (96) Argonne National Laboratory (4) Intel Corporation (34) Northwestern University (282) University of Chicago (18) Brookhaven National Laboratory (4) Non-Specified Industry (21) Harvard University (39) University of Texas - Austin (16) Center for Naval Analysis (4) Exxon Mobil (15) University of Chicago (38) University of Wisconsin - Madison (13) Sandia National Laboratory (4) Organization Unknown/Not Specified (13) Argonne National Laboratory (27) DePaul University (12) NASA (3) Google (12) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (27) Harvard University (11) National Institutes of Health (3) IBM (11) Stanford University (27) University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (11) Board Of Governors Of The Federal Reserve System (2) Boston Consulting Group (10) University of California - Berkeley (27) Purdue University - Main Campus (9) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2) Intel (10) University of Pennsylvania (21) University of Illinois - Chicago (9) Child Trends (2) The Dow Chemical Company (10) University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (20) University of Rochester (9) Congressional Budget Office (2) Microsoft Corporation (8) University of California - San Francisco (16) University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (8) National Institute of Standards and Technology (2) Abbott Laboratories (7) Johns Hopkins University (15) University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (8) Naval Research Laboratory (2) Baxter Healthcare (7) Columbia University (14) University of Pittsburgh - Main Campus (8) The Federal Reserve Board (2) McKinsey Corporation (7) University of Illinois - Chicago (14) Johns Hopkins University (7) The Field Museum (2) 3M Corporation (6) California Institute of Technology (12) Lake Forest College (7) 826CHI (nonprofit national literacy org) (1) Beghou Consulting (6) Princeton University (12) National University of Singapore (7) Banco Central de Chile (1) Cornerstone Research (6) University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign (12) New York University (7) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1) General Electric (6) University of Washington - Seattle (11) Stanford University (7) Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1) Chevron, Inc (5) National Institute of Standards and Technology (10) University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign (7) Bryn Mawr Film Society (1) Dow Chemical Company (5) University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (9) University of Maryland - College Park (7) Bureau of Labor Statistics (1) Rohm and Haas Company (5) Yale University (9) University of Notre Dame (7) Center for Advancement of Health (1) Samsung (5) Duke University (8) University of Pennsylvania (7) Chicago Botanic Garden (1) Boeing Company (4) Organization Unknown/Not Specified (8) University of Washington - Seattle (7) Civil Service College, Singapore (1) Citigroup (4) University of California - San Diego (8) University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (7) Collective For Social Science Research (1) Deloitte (4) University of Pittsburgh - Main Campus (8) Columbia University (6) Council on Foreign Relations (1) Dow Chemical (4) University of Wisconsin - Madison (8) (#) = number of graduates at organization