2025 PhD Employment Report | umsi

About this report

The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) Career Development Office, as well as U-M Rackham, surveys our graduates to identify their post-graduation plans and outcomes. This report summarizes UMSI first-destination outcomes from 2024 Ph.D. graduates who completed the survey by the deadline or for whom a known outcome was reported in other ways. Of the 23 Ph.D. students who graduated in 2024, 96% responded to the Rackham survey or reported their outcome in other ways.

Top industries our graduates are working in

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58%

Academia: tenure-track and/or post-doc

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31%

Industry: technology

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7%

Alternative academic: Alt-ac

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4%

Industry: government

Where our graduates are working

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40%

Northeast

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23%

Midwest

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18%

West

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14%

South

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5%

International

2025 Job Outcomes

ACADEMIA: TENURE-TRACK AND/OR POST-DOC

Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan - School of Information

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Maryland

Postdoctoral Researcher, Rutgers University - DIMACS

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas - Austin

Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University

Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

ALTERNATIVE ACADEMIC/ALT-AC

Engineering Librarian, Florida State University

Math Teacher, Hartford County Public Schools

INDUSTRY: GOVERNMENT

Data Visualization Specialist, Postal Regulatory Commission

INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY

Applied Scientist, Amazon

Applied Scientist, Amazon

UX Researcher, Google

Associate Research Scientist, Learning Data Insights

UX Researcher, NewHaptics

Senior UX Researcher, Samsung Electronics America

Data Engineer, Sentry

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Contact the UMSI Career Development Office to discuss your job search, or to receive information on hiring UMSI grads.