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2023 Survey Results: An Overview

This post provides a few more results from the 2023 survey (organized with the help of Neelum Maqsood). As background, the 2023 survey departed from previous APDA surveys in being offered on the Qualtrics platform rather than on our own website. For this reason, we had to adapt the structure

2024 Data Collection Results: a focus on recent graduates

Over the spring and summer we updated the database using placement pages and other public sources of data (h/t Ricardo Rodriguez), inviting program representatives to edit their dashboards at the end of the summer. This effort led to 406 new graduates in the covered period (2013–2023), over 2/

2023 Survey Results: Graduate Student Income

The 2023 APDA Survey included the following new questions for current graduate students of philosophy PhD programs: * How satisfied are you in your financial situation? [very unsatisfied, unsat- isfied, neutral, satisfied, very satisfied] * Please elaborate on your previous answer. * Including all sources (e.g. stipends, employment, gifts) what is your

2023 Data Collection Results: Employment

As mentioned in the previous post, we have completed our data gathering for nearly 150 programs, with our new data dashboard capturing nearly 6,000 philosophy PhD graduates between 2013 and 2023. These graduates are largely in academic jobs: 40% have had permanent academic employment (2,379 of 5,998)

The New Data Dashboard

Between February and August of this year the APDA project has been busy collecting and checking data on the employment status of recent graduates from nearly 150 philosophy PhD programs. Three people were especially key to this effort: Alisha Nesslage, now a graduate student at UC Irvine, Ricardo Rodriguez, a

Philosophy Works

This past week philosophy faculty from across the UC system got together to discuss how best to support graduate students in their search for non-academic careers. While around 85% of current students and recent graduates prefer an academic career, job satisfaction is the same for non-academic and permanent academic jobs

What happened to all the philosophy PhDs? (SED edition)

NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) has just released its 2021 data (h/t to Daily Nous). As noted at Daily Nous, the total number of philosophy PhD graduates reported for 2021 is 399, which is far fewer than previous years. The chart below has SED data from

2022 Data Collection Results

Since January we have been collecting data on over 200 PhD programs. The sortable table published to the home page today includes ten years of data for around 140 programs, nearly 50 of which have so far been able to verify our data. Analysis of that data is below, but

New Name and Icons

At 10 years old, APDA is ready for a sprucing up. The Board of Advisors met two weeks ago and decided to change the name of the project from Academic Placement Data and Analysis to Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis. Along with this name change I decided to create new