Carnegie Mellon University

Our 2020 Graduates

Employment Destinations by Region

Placement Destinations by Region

Destination Outcomes

Placement 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