Career Outcome Data

The charts below illustrate career outcomes for graduates of Scripps Research's doctoral program. Note that these charts are interactive! Be sure to use the two tabs at the top of the chart to toggle between the two views: All Years and Career Outcomes. On the Career Outcomes page, you can use the radio buttons to switch the time frame you are viewing. (5 years out, 10 years out, etc.)

The page below also displays specific examples of universities, companies and other career paths for program graduates.

Scripps Research is proud to be a member of the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science, a group of universities and research institutes working to take meaningful steps to improve transparency and trainee outcomes in the life sciences. As a member of the Coalition, Scripps Research commits to collect and publish data on training outcomes for our doctoral students and and postdoctoral researchers using common standards.

Career Outcomes After Graduation

Career Path Examples by Sector

Scripps Research graduates working in the phamaceutical and biotechnology sectors can be found at a wide array of companies, including: Amgen; Biogen Idec; Bristol-Myers Squibb; DuPont Industrial Biosciences; Eli Lilly and Company; Genentech; Gilead Sciences; GlaxoSmithKline; Illumina; Merck & Co., Inc.; Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Pfizer; and others.

Universities and research institutes are home to Scripps Research graduate program alumni serving as faculty members, including: Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Cornell University; Duke University; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Northwestern University; Rice University; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Oxford; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Yale University; and others.

Other Scripps alumni have found rewarding careers in the consulting and finance sectors (McKinsey & Company; Piper Jaffray) as well as government research, policy and public health (National Institutes of Health's multiple centers; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; U.S. Food and Drug Administration; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), while still others are continuing their training as postdoctoral researchers at universities and companies, including: Columbia University; California Institute of Technology; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Pfizer; Rockefeller University; the Salk Insitute for Biological Studies; University of California, San Francisco; and others.