PhD Career Placement
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PhD graduates of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford have obtained global career opportunities.
Graduates have taken positions with a wide range of organizations that include high-tech businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions (see list below). In the last five years, 60% have gone into industry, 2% into government agencies, and 38% into academia. Common job titles include: assistant professor, associate, data scientist, postdoc, quantitative researcher, research scientist, senior analyst, senior software engineer, and technical product manager.
Recent graduates have found employment at:
- Airforce Ventures
- Amazon
- Bain & Company
- Bayes Business School, City, University of London
- BetterUp
- BlackRock, Inc
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
- Chainlink Labs
- Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
- Cisco
- City University of Hong Kong Department of Marketing
- Columbia University Business School
- Council on Foreign Relations
- DeepMind
- DiDi Autonomous Driving
- Electronic Arts
- Emory University Quantitative Theory and Methods
- Esterline AVISTA Engineering Services
- Floodgate
- Form Energy
- George Washington University Department of Computer Science
- Granthika Co
- Harvard University Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
- Harvard University Medical School
- IBM
- Imperial College London Business School
- INSEAD
- Iterative
- J.P. Morgan Chase
- Jump Operations
- McKinsey and Company
- Microsoft
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Netflix
- New York University Law School
- Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
- PwC
- Rand Corporation
- Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business
- Snapchat
- Stanford University
- Strategen
- Two Sigma Investments
- Uber
- United States Military Academy Department of Systems Engineering
- University of California Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- University of California San Francisco
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- University of Hong Kong Management and Strategy
- University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial Engineering
- United States Air Force
- United States Digital Response
- Waze
- Weavegrid
- Work Innovation Lab