Career Outcome Data

The chart below illustrates career outcomes for graduates of Scripps Research's doctoral program. The chart is based on data collected as part of an annual survey of graduate program alumni, conducted each year by Scripps Research's Career and Postdoctoral Services Office.

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.