PhD Job Placement

PHD Placement Our gerontology PhD graduates have 100% job placement within 6 months of graduation Research position 14% Non-tenure track faculty 18% Tenure-track faculty 32% Post-doc fellowship 36% PHD Placement Our gerontology PhD graduates have 100% job placement within 6 months of graduation Research position 14% Non-tenure track faculty 18% Tenure-track faculty 32% Post-doc fellowship 36%

Our PhD curriculum is built on three important traditions of gerontology at Miami University: a multidisciplinary approach; expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods; and an emphasis on the social construction of age and aging. With this foundation, our graduates launch careers quickly after graduating.

Within 6 months of graduation:

37% were hired in tenure-track faculty positions across a variety of social science departments in the U.S.

37%  got post-doctoral research fellowships

17% were employed in research positions at universities and private sector organizations

10% were employed as non-tenure-track faculty at domestic and international universities

(does not total 100% due to rounding)

 

 

Postdoc Career Builders

Our Gerontology PhD grads have gone on to postdocs at:

Bar-Ilan University (Israel)

Brown University

Duke University 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Clemson University

Concordia University (Canada)

Miami University Scripps Gerontology Center