Graduate Job Placement Record - Bottom Text

Cumulative, last ten years:

Ph.D.s granted during calendar years 2006-2016: 110

First-time tenure track jobs: 64

= 58% Placement.

 * For the purposes of documenting our Placement record, we only count first-time, tenure-track positions in higher education. (We also do not count here Comparative Literature students who work primarily with English faculty.) Some of our students accept postdoctoral fellowships, one-year or three-year visiting appointments, or second tenure-track jobs at institutions more attractive or congenial than their first. Some institutions appear to count these sorts of career steps as "placements," but that is misleading and results in an overcount. A placement is a tenure-track assistant professorship, and a program should only count a student as having been placed once.

For a more complete sense of where are program's graduates are now, including placements in academic administration and secondary education, please refer to our Doctoral Alumni Directory.