DUKE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL PH.D. PLACEMENT DATA FOR STUDENTS GRADUATED IN 9/2001-5/2011
Department	Number of Students Completing Ph.D.	Academic Tenure Track	Academic Non-Tenure Track	Post Doc	Private Profit Enterprises	Public	Other	Unknown
HUMANITIES	436	241	73	16	25	6	40	35
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies	21	6	4	3	1	0	4	3
Classical Studies	22	7	11	0	0	0	3	1
English	87	61	10	3	2	1	3	7
German Studies	16	5	4	1	1	2	2	1
Literature	55	28	7	4	3	3	2	8
Music	39	11	6	0	4	0	14	4
Philosophy	33	16	7	4	3	0	2	1
Religion	112	70	16	1	11	0	8	6
Romance Studies	51	37	8	0	0	0	2	4
SOCIAL SCIENCES	595	311	90	53	59	47	27	8
Business Administration	105	81	9	3	10	0	2	0
Cultural Anthropology	27	12	9	2	1	0	3	0
Economics	112	54	3	7	21	21	3	3
History	78	37	17	1	1	15	5	2
Nursing (New Ph.D. Program)	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Political Science	101	66	14	9	2	3	4	3
Public Policy Studies (New Ph.D. Program)
Psychology and Neuroscience	108	28	29	24	18	5	4	0
Slavic Languages and Literature	2		1	0	0	0	1	0
Sociology	60	32	8	6	6	3	5	0
PHYSICAL SCIENCES	556	105	59	146	150	43	20	33
Chemistry	152	13	14	53	49	4	6	13
Computer Science	78	21	1	10	44	1	1	0
Earth and Ocean Sciences	27	5	2	5	9	4		2
Environment	89	19	9	22	6	18	3	12
Mathematics	59	19	10	11	9	4	2	4
Medical Physics	12	0	4	7	1	0	0	0
Physics	83	7	11	24	24	11	4	2
Statistical Science	56	21	8	14	8	1	4
ENGINEERING	435	45	61	69	197	26	8	29
Biomedical Engineering	172	18	32	36	69	10	6	1
Civil and Environmental Engineering	41	7	6	9	9	4	0	6
Electrical and Computer Engineering	143	10	11	6	91	4	1	20
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science	79	10	12	18	28	8	1	2
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES	793	126	225	217	112	31	55	27
Biochemistry	83	9	10	32	23	6	3	0
Biology (including Botony and Zoology)	127	48	24	31	7	4	12	1
Cell Biology	58	2	31	20	4	0	0	1
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB)	17	0	0	7	10	0	0	0
Ecology (including Geology)	56	14	8	8	1	11	1	13
Evolutionary Anthropology (formerly BAA)	27	11	10	1	0	1	3	1
Genetics and Genomics	81	8	23	32	7	2	5	4
Immunology	41	2	9	18	9	0	2	1
Marine Sciences & Conservation (New Ph.D. Program)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Molecular Cancer Biology	73	8	29	19	4	2	9	2
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology	54	4	11	18	15	3	2	1
Neurobiology	58	12	20	14	5	0	6	1
Pathology	38	5	17	10	2	0	4	0
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	79	3	33	7	25	2	8	1
Grand Total	2,815	828	508	501	543	153	150	132
TTRACK (higher ed - tenured or tenure-track)
NONTTRACK (higher ed [non-tenure track], excluding administrative and staff positions)
POSTDOCS (post-docs and fellowships)
PRIVATE (private profit enterprises)
PUBLIC (federal, state, local government)
OTHER (higher ed (administrative and staff positions only), all other non-profits, self employed, homemakers, etc.)
UNKNOWN (we do not have placement information for these graduates)