As a UMSI PhD student, you have access to substantial professional career support both within UMSI (faculty advisor and UMSI Career Development Office) as well as across the University (Rackham Graduate School and the UM Career Center). Through these offices, you will have access to professional career coaching, resources, workshops, alumni and professional connections, and more to support both academic and industry career pathways.

PhD academic career support

Faculty advisors

• Career planning
• Dissertation advising
• Academic job search preparation (developing packet, interview prep, presentation support)
• Networking

Rackham Graduate School

• Academic & Professional/Career Skills Development: Workshops, career conferences, career coaching, alumni connections, resources and speakers

PhD industry career support

UMSI Career Development Office

• Industry career coaching
• Resume reviews (CV to resume conversion)
• Job postings on iTrack
• Employer connections
• Job search resources
• Career/professional development workshops  

We can also connect you with VersatilePhD, a web-based career platform for PhD students pursuing industry careers. With this tool you can access instructive content, network, job analytics, job postings and readiness tools. 

University Career Center

• Advising and resource support: CV reviews, industry job search and job postings
• PhD industry career coach

Career outcomes

UMSI PhD graduates continue to succeed in both academic and industry careers. 

View the 2024 PhD Employment Report.

Academic outcomes

• Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, Biomedical Informatics
• Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Information & Media Studies
• Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Medical School
• Assistant Professor, University of Indiana, School of Informatics
• Assistant Professor, National Chio Tung University
• Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, Biomedical Informatics
• Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, School of Communication & Information
• Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Media & Information
• Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
• Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences
• Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
• Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology
• Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management 
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, College of Architecture, Department of Visualization
• Assistant Professor, HEC Paris, Information Systems 
• Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Business School
• Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Department of Communications and New Media
• Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Department of Economics
• Assistant Professor, Humboldt University of Berlin, Einstein Center Digital Future 
• Assistant Professor (Research), Stanford University, Graduate School of Education 
• Associate Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, College of Information and Human Communication 
• Tenure-track Faculty Member, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy 
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Northeastern University 
• Lecturer, University of Michigan School of Information
• Research Fellow, University of Michigan School of Information
• Postdoctoral Researcher, New York University AI Now Institute
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University College London, Interaction Centre
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Computer Science
• Postdoctoral Associate University of Minnesota, Computer Science
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University, School of Library and Information
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Institute on Complex Systems
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine, Department of Informatics
• Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Transportation & Logistics

Industry outcomes

• Data Scientist, Uber
• Sr Data Scientist, Headspace
• UX Researcher, Google 
• UX Researcher, Robinhood Financial
• UX Researcher, Facebook
• Head of Research & Experimentation, Vanguard
• UX Researcher, Yahoo 
• Applied Scientist, Amazon Alexa
• Data Scientist, Microsoft
• Data Scientist, Pearson 
• Principal Software Engineer, Bose Corporation
• R&D Engineer, Kindred.ai 
• Design Researcher, IBM Watson Health