Our 2020 Graduates

Employment Destinations by Region

Destination Outcomes

Placement of 2020 Ph.D. Graduates

Employer	Job Title	City	State/Country
Carnegie Mellon University	Postdoctoral Researcher	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
Harvard Medical School (2)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Boston	Massachusetts
National Cancer Institute	Postdoctoral Fellow	Bethesda	Maryland
New York University, Langone Health	Postdoctoral Researcher	New York	New York
University of California, San Francisco	Postdoctoral Fellow	San Francisco	California
University of Pittsburgh	Postdoctoral Associate	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania

_{Source: Post-graduation data compiled from 100% of graduating Biological Sciences Doctorate students. This includes students who graduated in August 2019, December 2019, & May 2020.}

_{Note: Some recent graduates chose not to provide employer, job title, salary, and/or graduate school information in their response. This information includes all full-time salaries reported with the exception of internships, military service, or those positions outside the U.S.}

Admissions & Graduation Statistics

Ph.D. Post-Graduation Data (2015-2020)

Post Graduate Chart

Average Time to Ph.D. Completion: 5.5 years

Size of Incoming Ph.D. Cohort
Fall 2020 (10)
Fall 2019 (7)
Fall 2018 (14)
Fall 2017 (9)
Fall 2016 (6)
Fall 2015 (7)

Placement Information for Previous Years

2019 Graduates

Science Communication Specialist, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Instructor, Clarion University, Clarion, PA
Director of Research and Development/Co-founder, Impact Proteomics, Pittsburgh, PA
Associate, McKinsey & Company, Pittsburgh, PA
Application Scientist, Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Postdoc, New York University, New York, NY
Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2018 Graduates

Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Postdoc, New York University, New York, NY
Software Engineer, RoadRunner Recycling, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
Senior Scientist, Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France
Postdoc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Instructor, Weimar College, Weimar, CA

2017 Graduates

Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Scientific Developer, Emerald Cloud Lab, San Francisco, CA
Management Consulting Associate, McKinsey & Company, Cleveland, OH
Investment Analyst, MSQ Ventures, New York, NY
Postdoc, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Postdoc, New York University, New York, NY
Assistant Statistician, Pfizer, Richmond, VA
Research Associate, Proteomics Core Facility of Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2016 Graduates

Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelpha, PA
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Associate Consultant, QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA
Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2015 Graduates

Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Postdoc, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Science Educator, BASIS.ed
Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Postdoc, Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Postdoc, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA
Postdoc, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2014 Graduates

Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD
Postdoc, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Rockville, MD
Research & Teaching, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany
Postdoc, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Postdoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
DVM Student, Ross School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre, St. Kitts

2013 Graduates

Postdoc, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Postdoc, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, Ithica, NY
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany

2012 Graduates

Postdoc, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Postdoc, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Postdoc, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Scientist, Sharp Edge Labs, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Postdoc, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2011 Graduates

Postdoc, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Product Manager, Medidata, Inc., New York, NY
Adjunct Instructor, Grove City College, Grove City, PA
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Bioinformatics Scientist II, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Postdoc, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD