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CAREER INFORMATION FROM THE DOCTORAL EXIT SURVEY June 2016 Survey Results

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EDoctoral Exit Survey Career Information Report

Table of Contents

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Welcome 3

Plans after Graduation 4-5

How Graduates Found Jobs 5-6

Top Industries for PhDs 6-7

Top Employers for PhDs 7-8

Information about Location after Graduation 8

Questions about Additional Experiences (Internship, Leadership 9 and Public Service Experience)

Postgraduate Plans by Department 10

Employers by Department 11-13

Employers of All PhD Graduates 14-15

Employers of International PhD Graduates 16

Average Salary and Bonus 17

Average Salary of Postdocs Positions by Department 18

Average Salary by Department of PhDs Going into Other Positions 19

Average Salary by Industry 20-22

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Welcome to the CAREER INFORMATION FROM THE EARNED DOCTORAL EXIT SURVEY.

We have taken career related information from the Doctoral Exit Survey and published this in a brief report for the MIT community and partners. In 2009, we began using the Doctoral Exit Survey to collect destination information for all PhDs. Employer and salary information about PhDs, prior to 2009, can be found in the Graduating Student Survey, http://gecd.mit.edu/resources/data. A special thanks to Clara Suh who worked on this report. Any questions about the survey and results can be directed to Deborah Liverman, liverman@mit.edu .

ABOUT THE DOCTORATAL EXIT SURVEY

The Doctoral Exit Survey is administered by Institutional Research, Office of the Provost at MIT. All information about the Doctoral Exit Survey, including purpose, method, format, and past reports can be found on the Institutional Research Doctoral Exit Survey Information web page, http://web.mit.edu/ir/surveys/docexit.html.

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2016 MIT POST GRADUATION STATISTICS*

*Based upon 518 out of 641 (80.8%) response rate to the 2016 Doctoral Exit Survey

WHAT IS THE STATUS OF YOUR POSTGRADUTE PLANS?*

POSTGRADUATE PLANS %

Work 68.7%

Graduate/Professional School 1.4%

Negotiating with one or more specific organizations 5.6%

Still Searching for Employment 11.4%

Other 4.2%

Returning to or continuing in predoctoral employment 3.9%

Do not plan to work or study 0.8%

*Other includes taking time off, traveling, and etc.

69%

11%

6%

8%4%

1% 1%

2016 Postgraduate Plans of PhDs

Work

Still Searching for Employment

Negotiating with One of More Organizations

Other

Returning to or Cotinuing in PredoctoralEmpolymentGraduate/Professional School

Do Not Plan to Study or Work

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WHAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR POSTGRADUATE PLANS?

PLANS %

Postdoc or further training 42.7%

Employment 52.7%

Other 4.6%

HOW 2016 PHDS FOUND THEIR JOBS?*

How PhDs Found Job %

Networking 31.3%

Directly applied to employer 29.0%

Through Department (faculty, academic administrator) 18.1%

External advertised job listing (on-line, print) 14.1%

On-campus recruiting (CareerBridge) 11.2%

Career Fair 9.5%

Professional Conference 7.5%

Internship led to job offer 5%

43%

53%

4%

2016 Postgraduate Plans

Postdoc or further training

Employment

Other

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MIT Sponsored Job Listings, Employer Database, INET 1.7%

Contacts acquired through MIT Career Services 1.2%

Other 4.6% *Respondents can multi-select answers and so the total will add up to more than 100%

2016 INDUSTRIES FOR PHDS

Industry %

Education 31.6%

Engineering 14.2%

Health/Medicine 11.1%

Computer Software 6.2%

Consulting 5.3%

Computer Hardware/ Electrical Engineering 5.0%

Energy and Utilities 3.7%

Pharmaceutics (Biotech, Medical Device) 3.7%

Chemicals and Materials 3.1%

Aerospace and Defense 2.8%

Government 1.9%

Industrial and Consumer Manufacturing 1.9%

Investment Banking 1.9%

Automotive and Transportation 1.5%

Financial Services 1.5%

Non-Profit Agency or NGO 1.2%

Architecture and Urban Planning 0.9%

Law 0.9%

Military 0.9%

Communications, Arts, Entertainment 0.3%

Other Industries Not Listed Above 0.3%

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WHICH EMPLOYERS HIRED THE MOST MIT PHD GRADUATES?

PhD Level Employers # Hires

MIT 36

Harvard University 9

Stanford University 7

McKinsey & Company 6

Princeton University 5

University of Washington 5

Boston Consulting Group 4

Lam Research 4

Microsoft 4

University of California Berkeley 4

Analog Devices, Inc. 3

Broad Institute 3

California Institute of Technology 3

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Georgia Institute of Technology 3

Google 3

Intel 3

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 3

Massachusetts General Hospital 3

Northwestern University 3

Shell 3

Texas Instruments 3

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 3

University of Oxford 3

Yale University 3

FOR THOSE WHO INTEND TO LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, IN WHAT STATE DO YOU INTEND TO LIVE AFTER GRADUATION? N=187

State %

Massachusetts 35.8%

California 21.9%

New York 7.5%

Illinois 4.3%

Texas 2.7%

New Jersey 4.8%

Washington 3.2%

Maryland 2.1%

Virginia 2.1%

Connecticut 1.6%

Pennsylvania 1.6%

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FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT PLAN TO LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, IN WHAT COUNTRY DO YOU INTEND TO LIVE AFTER GRADUATION? N=29

Country %

United Kingdom 34.5%

South Korea 10.3%

Thailand 6.9%

Switzerland 6.9%

Canada 6.9%

France 3.4%

Germany 3.4%

Israel 3.4%

Taiwan 3.4%

The Netherlands 3.4%

PERCENTAGE OF PHD GRADUATES THAT COMPLETED AN INTERNSHIP WHILE IN THEIR CURRENT PROGRAM

YES NO DON’T KNOW

25.9% 74.1% 0%

PERCENTAGE OF PHD GRADUATES HAD A LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE DURING THEIR TIME AT MIT

YES NO DON’T KNOW

46.9% 48.1% 5%

PERCENTAGE OF PHD GRADUATES WITH SERVICE EXPERIENCE DURING THEIR TIME AT MIT

YES NO DON’T KNOW

38.5% 54.9% 6.6%

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WHAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR POSTGRADUATE PLANS? Numbers of respondents are in the column titled “total”

Course (Course Number) Postdoc or Further Training Employment Other Total

Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) 6 0 0 6

Mechanical Engineering (2) 21 39 0 60

Materials Science and Engineering (3) 12 17 0 29

Architecture (4) 4 6 0 10

Chemistry (5) 16 16 0 32

EECS- (6) 29 52 0 81

Biology (7) 29 17 0 46

Physics (8) 16 12 0 28

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) 8 3 0 11

Chemical Engineering (10) 3 19 0 22

Urban Studies and Planning (11) 2 6 0 8

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12) 5 5 0 10

Economics (14) 3 8 0 11

Sloan School of Management (15) 0 9 0 9

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) 6 13 0 19

Political Science (17) 2 2 0 4

Mathematics (18) 17 5 0 22

Biological Engineering (20) 7 7 0 14

Nuclear Science and Engineering (22) 3 8 0 11

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) 2 3 0 5

Computational and Systems Biology [CSB] 6 2 0 8

Engineering Systems Division [ESD] 1 3 0 4

Health, Science, and Technology [HST] 6 8 0 14

IDSS (formerly ESD) 1 3 0 4

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] 5 5 0 10

Microbiology 3 0 0 3 Operations Research (OR) 2 7 0 9 Science Technology and Society (STS) 3 0 0 3 WHOI 4 1 0 5

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2016 PhD EMPLOYERS BY DEPARTMENT * Results are based on reported data and not representative of all employers who hire MIT students by department.

Course (Course Number) Employers

Civil & Environmental Engineering (1) MIT, Stanford University, University of Indiana-Bloomington

Mechanical Engineering (2)

24M Technologies, Advanced Structures and Composites Center, Booz Allen Hamilton, California Institute of Technology, Creare, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Harvard University, International Council on Clean Transportation, Lam Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LG Electronics, MathWorks, McKinsey & Company, MIT, Shell, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Tesla Motors, Triple Ring Tech, University of Oxford, US Navy, Woods Hole Group

Materials Science and Engineering (3)

Amazon Lab126, Analog Devices, Argonne National Lab, California Institute of Technology, Desktop Metal, Draper, Gerbrand Ceder, Institute for Defense Analyses, Intel, Lam Research, MIT, Northwestern University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Battelle, Saint-Gobain, University of Southern California, Xtalic

Architecture (4) Cornell, Getty Research Institute, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - MPI, MIT, University of Miami

Chemistry (5)

Epic Systems, ExxonMobil, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Lawerence Berkeley Laboratory, McKinsey & Co., MillimanMAX, MIT, Moderna Therapeutics, Mount Holyoke College, Panda Funds, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, Toste, Dean / UC Berkeley, Two Sigma, UC Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (6)

Analog Devices, Apple, Argonne National Laboratory, Boston Scientific, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cavium, Inc, Creative Microsystems Corp, D. E. Shaw Research, Fitbit, Inc., Google, Heap Inc, IBM, Improbable, Intel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, KAIST, Microsoft Research, MIT, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Northwestern University, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Princeton University, Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center, Stanford EECS, Tetration Analytics, Texas Instruments Inc., University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, US Naval Academy, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Biology (7)

Boston Consulting Group, Broad Institute, Bruce Goode/ Brandeis University, Clarion Healthcare LLC, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Counsyl, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, ETH Zurch, Evelo Biosciences, Fish & Richardson, Flagship VentureLabd, Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Hubrecht Institute, IXL Learning, McKinsey & Company, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MIT, Sean Crosson, Stanford University, University of California, Davis, University of California, San Francisco, University of Oxford, University of Washington, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Physics (8)

Antaya Science and Technology, Citadel LLC, Goldman Sachs, Harvard University, Institute for Advanced Study, Intel, IXL Learning, KITP, Microsoft, MIT, Morgan Stanley, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Stanford Applied Physics, University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Arlington

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Course (Course Number) Employers

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) Harvard Medical School, Jeffrey Gavornik, Boston University, Massachusetts General Hospital, National Institute of Mental Health, Princeton, Rockefeller University

Chemical Engineering (10) A.T. Kearney, Boston Consulting Group, Bristol Myers Squibb, Burapha University, ExxonMobil, Genentech, LiquiGlide, McKinsey & co., United States Navy, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Urban Studies and Planning (11) Inter American Development Bank, Northeastern University, The Rainforest Foundation, University of Utah

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12)

American Geosciences Institute, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Corning, Harvard University, NOAA Climate & Global Change fellowship, Shell Oil, Tulane University, University of Oregon, WHOI Sea Grant/NOAA

Economics (14) Northwestern University, Princeton University, Princeton University, UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, US Army, Wharton, Yale University

Management (15) Georgia Institute of Technology, HEC MONTREAL, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Colorado at Boulder , University of Southern California, Yale University

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) Boston Consulting Group, Kitty Hawk Corporation, MIT, Motif Investing, NASA, The Perduco Group, University of Oxford, USAF Test Pilot School

Political Science (17) University at Albany, University of California, San Diego, University of Pennsylvania

Mathematics (18)

Brown University, Cognex, Curoverse Inc, Georgia Institute of Technology, IAS, Institut des Hautes Ñtudes Scientifiques, Jane Street Capital, Microsoft, National Taiwan University, Northeastern University, Princeton University, Simons Foundation, Tel Aviv University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Minnesota, Vatic Labs, Washington University in St. Louis

Biological Engineering (20) A*STAR, Bain & Company, Broad Institute, Editas Medicine, ETH Zurich, Open Philanthropy Project, Phase Diagnostics, Stanford University, University of California, San Diego

Nuclear Engineering (22) Boston Consulting Group, Dominion Engineering, Inc., Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Mckinsey and Company, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Terrapower LLC, Transform Fuels, Upower, Inc.

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) Buxton School, Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, University of Maryland

Computational Systems Biology [CSB] Broad Institute, Caltech, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Stanford University, University of Washington

Engineering Systems Division [ESD] Boston University, PA Consulting Group, Yale University

Health Sciences and Technology [HST] Brigham and Women's Hospital, Glympse Bio, Google, Harvard University, Human Longevity, Massachusetts General Hospital

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] Circular2, Harvard University, Lumii, MIT, Tulip Interfaces Inc.

Science, Technology, & Society [STS] Columbia University, Harvard University

Operations Research BlackRock, Georgia Institute of Technology, Microsoft Research, MIT, New York University

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2016 MIT EMPLOYERS OF PHD GRADUATES *Some companies made more than 1 hire but are only represented once on the charts below.

24M Technologies Counsyl Institute for Advanced Study

Northeastern University

University of California, Los Angeles

A*STAR Creare Institute for Defense Analyses

Northwestern University

University of California, San Diego

A.T. Kearney Creative Microsystems Corp

Intel Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

University of California, San Francisco

Advanced Structures and Composites Center

Curoverse Inc Inter American Development Bank

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

University of California, Santa Barbara

Amazon Lab126 D. E. Shaw Research International Council on Clean Transportation

Open Philanthropy Project

University of Cambridge

American Geosciences Institute

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

IXL Learning PA Consulting Group University of Chicago

Analog Devices, Inc. Desktop Metal Jane Street Capital Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Battelle

University of Colorado at Boulder

Antaya Science and Technology

Dominion Engineering, Inc.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Panda Funds University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Apple Draper Johns Hopkins University

Phase Diagnostics University of Indiana, Bloomington

Applied Physics Laboratory

Editas Medicine KAIST Princeton University University of Maryland

Argonne National Laboratory

Epic Systems KITP Queen Mary, University of London

University of Miami

Bain & Company ETH Zurich Kitty Hawk Corporation Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center

University of Minnesota

BlackRock Evelo Biosciences Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

Rockefeller University University of Oregon

Booz Allen Hamilton ExxonMobil Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Saint-Gobain University of Oxford

Boston Consulting Group

Fish & Richardson Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – MPI

Sean Crosson University of Pennsylvania

Boston Dynamics Fitbit, Inc. Lam Research Shell University of Southern California

Boston Scientific Flagship VentureLabd Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Simons Foundation University of Texas at Arlington

Boston University Ford Motor Company LG Electronics Singapore Univ of Tech and Design

University of Utah

Brandeis University GE Healthcare LiquiGlide SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

University of Virginia

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Brigham and Women's Hospital

Genentech Lumii Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

University of Washington

Bristol Myers Squibb General Electric Global Research

Massachusetts General Hospital

Stanford University Upower, Inc.

Broad Institute Georgia Institute of Technology

MathWorks, Inc Tel Aviv University US Army

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Gerbrand Ceder McKinsey & Company Terrapower LLC US Naval Academy

Brown University Getty Research Institute

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Tesla Motors US Navy

Burapha University Glympse Bio Microsoft Tetration Analytics USAF Test Pilot School

Buxton School Goldman Sachs MillimanMAX Texas Instruments Inc. Vatic Labs

California Institute of Technology

Google MIT The Perduco Group Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Carnegie Mellon University

Harvard Medical School MIT Lincoln Laboratory The Rainforest Foundation

Washington University in St. Louis

Cavium, Inc Harvard University Moderna Therapeutics Transform Fuels Wentworth Institute of Technology

Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education at U of Hawaii

Heap Inc Morgan Stanley Triple Ring Tech Wharton

Circular2 HEC MONTREAL Motif Investing Tulane University WHOI Sea Grant/NOAA

Citadel LLC Hubrecht Institute Mount Holyoke College Tulip Interfaces inc. Woods Hole Group

Clarion Healthcare LLC Human Longevity Inc NASA Two Sigma Xtalic

Cognex IAS National Institute of Mental Health

University at Albany Yale University

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

IBM National Science and Technology Development Agency

University of British Columbia

Columbia University ICERM (at Brown University)

National Taiwan University

University of California, Berkeley

Cornell University Improbable New York University University of California, Davis

Corning, Inc. Institut des Hautes Ñtudes Scientifiques

NOAA Climate & Global Change

University of California, Irvine

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2016 EMPLOYERS OF INTERNATIONAL PHD GRADUATES *Some companies made more than 1 hire but are only represented once on the charts below.

24M Technologies ETH Zurich MIT University of British Columbia

A*STAR Fitbit, Inc. Moderna Therapeutics University of California, Berkeley

Analog Devices, Inc. General Electric Morgan Stanley University of California, Los Angeles

Antaya Science and Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology Motif Investing University of California,

San Diego

Apple Gerbrand Ceder National Science and Technology Development Agency

University of California, San Francisco

Argonne National Laboratory Goldman Sachs National Taiwan

University University of California, Santa Barbara

Bain & Company Google New York University University of Cambridge

BlackRock Harvard University Northeastern University University of Chicago

Boston Consulting Group Heap Inc. Northwestern University University of Illinois

Urbana Champaign

Boston Scientific HEC MONTREAL Oak Ridge National Laboratory University of Miami

Boston University IBM Open Philanthropy Project University of Minnesota

Brigham and Women's Hospital Improbable Princeton University University of Oxford

Bristol Myer Squibb Intel Queen Mary, University of London

University of Pennsylvania

Broad Institute Inter American Development Bank

Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center

University of Southern California

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

International Council on Clean Transportation Saint-Gobain University of Texas at

Arlington

Brown University KAIST Shell University of Washington

Burapha University Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Singapore Univ of Tech and Design Vatic Labs

California Institute of Technology

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - MPI

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Carnegie Mellon University Lam Research Stanford University

Cavium, Inc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tel Aviv University

Citadel LLC LG Electronics Tetration Analytics

Clarion Healthcare LLC Lumii Texas Instruments Inc.

Cognex Massachusetts General Hospital Triple Ring Tech

Cornell McKinsey & Company Tulane University

Curoverse Inc Microsoft Tulip Interfaces inc.

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WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE SALARY OF WORKING MIT PHD GRADUATES?

Mean Salary Median Salary Salary Range

PhD going into postdoctoral positions $60,605 $50,000 $24,000-$140,000

PhD going on to other positions $117,404 $110,000 $10,500-$400,000

WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE BONUS (FOR THOSE RECEIVING BONUS) OF WORKING MIT PHD GRADUATES?

$15,773/ $5,000-$50,000

HAT PERCENTAGE OF WORKING GRADUATES NEGOTIATED THEIR SALARY AND BONUS?

Negotiated Salary Negotiated Bonus

Doctorate 27.0% 18.3%

WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE NEGOTIATED INCREASE IN SALARY AND BONUS OF WORKING GRADUATES?

Average Increase in Salary Average Increase in Bonus

Doctorate $9,555 $8,378

WHAT IS THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF JOB APPLICATIONS, JOB INTERVIEWS, AND JOB OFFERS?

Job Applications Job Interviews Job Offers

Doctorate 5.7 4.6 3.1

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2016 AVERAGE SALARY BY COURSE FOR PHDS GOING INTO POSTDOCTORAL (US DOLLARS)

The numbers of respondents are in columns titled N# after each salary amount. Blanks represent less than 1 response.

Course (Course Number) Mean Salary Median Salary N#

Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) $68,333 - 3

Mechanical Engineering (2) $54,160 $52,500 10

Materials Science and Engineering (3) $53,717 $52,000 11

Architecture (4) $44,750 $42,000 4

Chemistry (5) $48,204 $45,000 9

EECS (6) $67,955 $60,000 17

Biology (7) $48,844 $45,500 17

Physics (8) $57,017 $59,400 13

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) $45,250 45,000 4

Chemical Engineering (10) - -

Urban Studies and Planning (11) - -

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12) $42,857 $44,000 7

Economics (14) $80,667 -, 3

Sloan School of Management (15) - -

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) $ 56,667 - 3

Political Science (17) $ 61,500 - 2

Mathematics (18) $ 59,930 $59,008 14

Biological Engineering (20) $50,613 - 3

Nuclear Science and Engineering (22) - - -

Computational and Systems Biology [CSB] $51,333 $52,500 6

Engineering Systems Division [ESD] - -

History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society [HASTS] - -

Health, Science, and Technology [HST] $43,349 - 3

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] - - -

Microbiology - - -

Operation Research $110,000 - 2

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) $44,500 - 2

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - - -

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2016 AVERAGE EMPLOYMENT SALARY BY COURSE FOR PHDS GOING INTO OTHER POSITIONS (US DOLLARS)

The numbers of respondents are in columns titled N# after each salary amount. Blank represents less than 1 response.

Course (Course Number) Mean Salary Median Salary N# Mean Bonus Median Bonus N#

Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) - - - -

Mechanical Engineering (2) $ 102,625 $104,500 20 $ 11,333 $10,000 9

Materials Science and Engineering (3) $ 112,300 $110,000 10 $16,750 $15,000 8

Architecture (4) - - -

Chemistry (5) $96,011 $99,000 9 - -

EECS (6) $ 137,374 $125,000 25 $23,688 $15,000 17

Biology (7) $106,500 $96,500 9 $14,000 $10,000 6

Physics (8) $113,833 $113,000 6 $21,250 $17,500 4

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) - - - - - -

Chemical Engineering (10) $107982 $115,000 11 $15,714 $10,000 8

Urban Studies and Planning (11) $83,000 $71,000 4 $15,000 - 1

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12) $69,000 - 2 - - -

Economics (14) $154,944 $158,333 7 - - -

Sloan School of Management (15) $196,167 $203,500 7

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) $136,250 $122,500 4 $27,500 2

Political Science (17) - - - -

Mathematics (18) $148,333 $150,000 3 $35,000 2

Biological Engineering (20) $81,250 $80,500 4 - -

Nuclear Science and Engineering (22) $98,900 $99,100 8 $12,500 2

Computational and Systems Biology [CSB] - - - - - -

Engineering Systems Division [ESD] $154,695 - 2 $15,000 - 1

History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society [HASTS] $44,750 2 - -

Health, Science, and Technology [HST] $107,500 $102,500 3 $19,000 - 3

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] $134,000 - 2 $15,0000 - 1

Microbiology - - - - - -

Operations Research $138,333 3 $5,000 - 1

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) $44,750 2 - -

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - - - -

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2016 AVERAGE EMPLOYMENT SALARY BY INDUSTRY FOR PHDS

Industry # of Offers Employers Salary Range Average Salary

Aerospace & Defense 9 Creare, Institute for Defense Analyses, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kitty Hawk Corporation, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NASA, The Perduco Group, USAF Test Pilot School

$75,00 - $140,000

$107,714

Architecture & Urban Planning

3 Cornell, Northeastern University, University of Miami

$72,000 - $85,000 $79,000

Automotive & Transportation

5 Ford Motor Company, International Council on Clean Transportation, LG Electronics, Tesla Motors

$67,000 - $111,000 $93,500

Chemicals & Materials 10 Argonne National Lab, Corning, Inc., ExxonMobil, Lawerence Berkeley Laboratory, LiquiGlide, MIT, Northwestern University, UC Berkeley

$40,000 - $115,000

$66,886

Computer Hardware 16 Analog Devices, Inc., Apple, Cavium, Inc, Fitbit, Inc., IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Intel, Lam Research, Lumii, MIT, Texas Instruments Inc.

$108,000 - $160,000

$127,333

Computer Software 20

Cognex, Epic Systems, Google, Heap Inc, Improbable, Intel, MathWorks, Inc, Microsoft, Stanford EECS, Tetration Analytics, The MathWorks Inc., Tulip Interfaces inc., University of California, Davis, University of Washington

$45,000 - $208,000

$113,889

Consulting 16 A.T. Kearney, Bain & Company, Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consulting Group, Clarion Healthcare LLC, McKinsey & Company, PA Consulting Group, Woods Hole Group

$73,000 - $200,000

$132,267

Education (postdoc) 68 Brandeis University, Brown University, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, ETH Zurch, Georgia Institute of Technology, Getty Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, ICERM (at Brown University), Institut des Hautes Ñtudes Scientifiques, Institute for Advanced Study, Johns Hopkins University, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - MPI, MIT, National Taiwan University, Northeastern University, Princeton University, Rockefeller University, Sean Crosson, Simons Foundation, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Tulane University, University at Albany, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, University of Hawaii, University of Indiana, Bloomington, University of Maryland, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Minnesota, University of Oregon, University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pensylavania, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Arlington, University of

$10,000 - $140,000 $57,074

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Industry # of Offers Employers Salary Range Average Salary

Washington, Washington University in St. Louis, Weatherhead Center Harvard University

Education (nonpostdoc) 34

Boston University, Buxton School, Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, HEC MONTREAL, IXL Learning, KAIST, MIT Biological Engineering Communication Lab, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Queen Mary, University of London, Singapore Univ of Tech and Design, UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, San Diego, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, University of Southern California - Marshall School, University of Utah, University of Virginia, US Army, US Naval Academy, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Yale University

$27,000 - $263,000 $127,255

Energy & Utilities 12

24M Technologies, Argonne National Laboratory/US, ExxonMobil, General Electric Global Research, MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Battelle, Panda Funds, Shell Oil, UPower

$56,600 - $127,000 $89,782

Engineering 46

A*STAR, Advanced Structures and Composites Center, Amazon Lab126, Applied Physics Laboratory, Boston Dynamics, Caltech, Circular2, Creative Microsystems Corp, Desktop Metal, Dominion Engineering, Inc., Draper, Gerbrand Ceder, Google, Harvard University, IBM, Lam Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, MIT, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Princeton University, Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center, Stanford University, Terrapower LLC, Texas Instruments, Transform Fuels, Triple Ring Tech, University of Pennsylvania, Upower, Inc., Yale University

$17,000 - $204,000 $81,783

Financial Services (Commercial Banking, Insurance)

4 Goldman Sachs, Jane Street Capital, MillimanMAX, Two Sigma $120,000 -

$150,000 $131,667

Government 6

Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Institute of Mental Health, NOAA Climate & Global Change fellowship, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, WHOI Sea Grant/NOAA

$43,000-$101,200 $63,533

Health/Medicine 31

Antaya Science and Technology, Boston Scientific, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Broad Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Counsyl, Curoverse Inc, D. E. Shaw Research, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Evelo Biosciences, Flagship

$40,000-$400,000 $81,654

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Industry # of Offers Employers Salary Range Average Salary

VentureLabd, GE Healthcare, Harvard University, Human Longevity Inc, Jeffrey Gavornik, Boston University, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Princeton University, University of California, San Diego, University of California, San Francisco, University of Washington

Industrial and Consumer Manufacturing (Construction, Product Manufacturing, Consumer Products)

3

Intel, Saint-Gobain, Xtalic

- $97,500

Investment Banking (Mutual Funds and Money Management)

5 BlackRock, Citadel LLC, Morgan Stanley, Motif Investing, Vatic Labs $100,000 -

$175,000 $126,667

Law 1 Fish & Richardson - -

Military 2 US Navy - -

Non-Profit Agency or NGO 4

American Geosciences Institute, Inter American Development Bank, Open Philanthropy Project, The Rainforest Foundation

$48,000-140,000 $78,250

Pharmaceuticals (Biotech, Medical Device)

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Bristol Myers Squibb, Broad Institute, Editas Medicine, Genentech, Glympse Bio, Moderna Therapeutics, Phase Diagnostics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

$42,840 - $137,800 $95,262