Our job placement numbers are outstanding. Within the first year after graduation, typically about half of our graduates have already secured tenure track positions; most of the others secure post-doctoral fellowships and/or teach as visiting professors or adjuncts while they continue their tenure track job search.
Within five years of graduation, on average 85% of our graduates are in tenure-track positions across the country, and even across the world.
The PhD program in Religion does not only train academics, however; some of our graduates choose to go into alternative fields such as ministry and non-profit work.
Graduates of the program in the past five years currently hold tenure track positions at the following institutions:
- Clemson University, South Carolina
- Colorado College
- Emory University, Georgia
- Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts
- Lahore University, Pakistan
- Pace University, New York
- University of Minnesota
- University of Missouri
- University of Nebraska
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of South Carolina
- University of Virginia
- Vassar College, New York
- Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Nepal
- Singapore University of Technology and Design
- St. Mary’s College, Indiana
- Wake Forest University, North Carolina
Graduates who have held post-doctoral fellowships and/or taught have been, or are currently, at the following institutions:
- Brown University, Rhode Island
- Gordon College, Massachusetts
- Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, Japan
- Loyola Marymount University, California
- Oberlin College, Ohio
- Trinity College, Connecticut
- Trinity University, Texas
Graduates who have chosen alternative careers work in some of the following areas:
- Clinical Ethics, Hospitals/Health Care
- Strategy and Analysis, Hospitals/Health Care
- Ministry
- Management and research: various NGOs and nonprofit organizations