We recently analyzed the most up-to-date placement information for every student admitted to our graduate program between 1996 and 2017 who was awarded the Ph.D. Without exception, everyone in these 20 cohorts is gainfully employed, the vast majority (70%) in tenure-track faculty positions at universities and colleges. A little over 13% are in full-time research or professional/administrative positions. The roughly 17% in postdoctoral research or non-tenure-track faculty positions are overwhelmingly recent graduates, and most will transition into full-time tenure-track positions.

Some of our students accept research and policy positions, beginning careers in prominent government and international agencies, research centers, and consulting firms such as ChildTrends, Center for Disease Control, the State of Indiana, and in the business world.

Among the list of placements below, a variety of types of institutions are represented ranging from small, teaching-focused liberal arts colleges to large, research-intensive universities. This heterogeneity reflects the breadth of graduate education at IU, which provides outstanding methodological and research training in combination with an elective Preparing Future Faculty track emphasizing teaching and professionalization.

The following are placement highlights (listed alphabetically) from all 20 cohorts:

• Dartmouth College
• Duke University
• Emory University
• Harvard University
• Indiana University-Bloomington
• Northwestern University
• The Ohio State University
• Stanford University
• University of California-Irvine
• University of Chicago
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland-College Park
• University of Minnesota
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Texas-Austin
• Vanderbilt University

The following are all placements (listed alphabetically) of our students who earned their Ph.D.s within the past five years:

• Brigham Young University
• Central Michigan University
• Coe College
• College of Charleston
• Columbia University (Teachers College)
• Florida Atlantic University
• Framingham State University
• Georgia College & State University
• Gettysburg College
• Gonzaga University
• Grinnell College
• Hamilton College
• Indiana University-Kokomo
• Lake Forest College
• North Central College
• North Dakota State University
• The Ohio State University
• Pitzer College
• Providence College
• Purdue University
• RAND Corporation
• Rhodes College
• State University of New York-Old Westbury
• Saint Anselm College
• University of Alabama-Birmingham
• University of California-Merced
• University of Charleston
• University of Maryland-College Park
• University of North Carolina-Charlotte
• University of North Carolina-Wilmington
• University of North Texas
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Richmond
• University of South Carolina
• University of Texas-Austin
• University of Toronto
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
• University of Wyoming
• University of Zagreb
• University Purdue Northwest
• Vanderbilt University