DUKE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL PH.D. PLACEMENT DATA FOR STUDENTS GRADUATED IN 9/2000-5/2008
Department	Number of Students Completing Ph.D.	Academic Tenure Track	Academic Non-Tenure Track	Post Doc	Private Profit Enterprises	Public	Other	Unknown
HUMANITIES	332	197	57	13	15	4	27	19
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies	11	2	6	0	0	0	2	1
Classical Studies	19	9	6	0	0	0	3	1
English	57	41	7	1	1	0	3	4
German Studies	14	5	3	0	1	2	2	1
Literature	46	23	9	4	3	2	2	3
Music	30	8	7	3	3	0	5	4
Philosophy	30	15	5	4	0	0	1	5
Religion	85	61	9	1	7	0	7	0
Romance Studies	40	33	5	0	0	0	2	0
SOCIAL SCIENCES	453	243	47	35	46	29	36	17
Business Administration	73	58	1	1	10	0	3	0
Cultural Anthropology	24	14	4	2	1	0	3	0
Economics	82	39	2	1	21	8	3	8
History	76	40	12	2	1	12	6	3
Nursing (New Ph.D. Program)
Political Science	73	49	9	0	3	3	5	4
Public Policy Studies (New Ph.D. Program)
Psychology and Neuroscience	76	20	14	24	3	3	12	0
Slavic Languages and Literature	5	0	3	0	0	0	1	1
Sociology	44	23	2	5	7	3	3	1
PHYSICAL SCIENCES	410	75	39	113	103	23	11	46
Chemistry	127	8	5	44	36	2	2	30
Computer Science	64	19	1	9	33	0	0	2
Earth and Ocean Sciences	23	2	2	4	10	2	0	3
Environment	60	17	7	14	3	12	3	4
Mathematics	37	11	9	8	1	1	3	4
Medical Physics (New Ph.D. Program)
Physics	62	2	10	28	14	5	0	3
Statistical Science	37	16	5	6	6	1	3	0
ENGINEERING	304	33	19	56	117	12	35	32
Biomedical Engineering	114	10	6	28	37	8	25	0
Civil and Environmental Engineering	27	5	1	4	10	0	1	6
Electrical and Computer Engineering	102	8	4	11	56	1	2	20
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science	61	10	8	13	14	3	7	6
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES	590	77	25	256	61	17	115	39
Biochemistry	64	2	4	30	8	1	17	2
Biology (including Botony and Zoology)	113	38	4	52	4	2	9	4
Cell Biology	49	4	1	34	4	0	5	1
Computional Biology and Bioinformatics	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Ecology (including Geology)	34	7	2	17	1	4	1	2
Evolutionary Anthropology (formerly BAA)	19	9	4	0	1	0	5	0
Genetics and Genomics	53	1	4	27	1	0	12	8
Immunology	30	4	0	14	6	1	4	1
Marine Sciences & Conservation (New Ph.D. Program)
Molecular Cancer Biology	48	3	1	24	4	2	11	3
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology	35	1	0	13	3	1	2	15
Neurobiology	47	4	2	21	6	0	13	1
Pathology	26	2	0	5	2	3	14	0
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology	69	2	3	19	18	3	22	2
Total	2,089	625	187	473	342	85	224	153
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)