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Our studentsGraduate student profilePotential Grad Students Start Here Faculty: Academic Curriculum: Career preparation/exploration Our doctoral candidates take an average of five years to complete their degrees, more than a year less than the national average in biological sciences. See Years to PhD (opens new window). Our first year retention rate is 96% and our graduation rate is 81%. See PhD Graduation Rates (opens new window).
The vast majority of our graduates complete postdoctoral training before entering academia or industry. Recent graduates have accepted postdoctoral positions at Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, UC-Davis, Maryland, Cold Spring Harbor, Indiana, UC-Irvine, NIH, Case Western Reserve, Washington, and the Danforth Plant Science Institute. Those that take postdoctoral positions stay in those positions an average of 2.6 years, almost a full year less than the national average in biological sciences. Some have moved directly into an Assistant Professorship at a primarily undergraduate institution. Our graduates have been highly successful in the job market. More than 95% of our doctoral recipients in the last 10 years are now employed in science in either academia or the private sector. Recent graduates are now on the faculty at Yale, Minnesota, UC-San Francisco, Avila College, Washington University (St. Louis), Wisconsin, Dana College, Howard, Iowa Penn State, Bucknell, Pittsburgh, and Cornell. Other recent gradates include the Conservation Coordinator at the Missouri Botanical Garden, The director of International Programs of the American Bird Conservatory, a Program Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund, an Area Director for the Nature Conservancy, and the Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Washington. See Occupations of our PhD recipients vs National Cohort in Biology (opens new window). Biological Sciences Graduate Student AssociationOur own Division of Biological Sciences Graduate Students Association organizes and promotes a variety of educational and social activities throughout the year for all our graduate students. Current Graduate Students more>> |
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Our 2003-2007 PhD graduates published an average of 2.8 refereed papers, presented their research at an average of 2.9 national / international meetings, and received an average of 1.3 research grants from extramural agencies to support their dissertation research.