What is the job placement rate for students recently graduated?
Of the 22 doctoral students who graduated in the past two years, all but one is employed teaching in a college or university. Five of these people currently hold Robert Park Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships in our department. While many of our graduates accept one-year visiting appointments or postdoctoral fellowships, they nearly always get tenure-track positions in their second or third year on the job market. These numbers are representative of most Ph.D. recipients in the field; the Association of Departments of English (ADE) reports that in 2004, only 34% of the tenure-track jobs in English went to people still in graduate school; the remaining tenure-track positions were offered to applicants already holding other positions, many of them temporary appointments as adjunct or postdoctoral instructors.
