Ontario’s PhD Graduates from 2009
Where are they now?
You might have heard that getting a PhD isn’t worth it, that job opportunities for graduates are scarce – even after 23+ total years in school. Is it true?
We checked in on the 2009 class of PhDs from Ontario universities. There were 2,310 graduates. They have had six years to settle into the job market.
We used an internet-based approach to discover who they are and what they are doing in 2015.
They are doing better than you
might think.
Job
29% are university professors
Approximately one-third of Ontario’s PhD graduates
from 2009 are full-time (tenure – tenure track)
university professors today.
21% have other jobs in academia
Jobs like researchers, lecturers, college instructors
and administrators.
=50%
work in academia
35% work outside academia
Importantly for Ontario’s economy, 35% of the graduating class of 2009 is working in business, industry and the public sector outside higher education.
Key industries are:
Engineering companies, health care, government, science research and consulting.
15% no information
These graduates are likely employed
outside of academia, unemployed or
are out of the labour force entirely.
Location
Ontario PhD graduates are working around the world.
50% work in Ontario
Of the balance, one-third are working elsewhere in Canada,
one-third in the United States, one-third in other countries
and continents.
17% work in the
rest of Canada
17% work in the
United States
17% work in the
rest of the world
University
82% of PhDs
graduated from one of Ontario’s seven research-intensive universities.
18% of PhDs
graduated from one of nine other Ontario universities.
The remaining four Ontario universities graduated
no PhDs.
Field of Study
61% STEM and health
22%
Sciences
19%
Engineering
10%
Health
8%
Math and computer sciences
2%
Agriculture
39% other fields
10%
Humanities
5%
Education
4%
Business
4%
Other
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