A Committment to Data-Informed Programming Clear insight prepares graduate students for a changing professional landscape. Modern professional life takes the shape of a portfolio, comprising many inputs and allowing for continual evolution. The data bears this out across disciplines and pathways that span the academic, government, nonprofit, and private sectors. Inspired by the creative ways in which Princeton graduate students translate their scholarship and research beyond their master’s or Ph.D., we track long-term career outcomes data in five- and ten-year increments. By the Numbers GradFUTURES is committed to collecting and disseminating data that will help us continue to refine and improve our programs and opportunities, while better informing and engaging the graduate students at the heart of our work. We analyze and report on the following data: Graduate alumni career outcomes Advertised jobs requiring discipline-specific Ph.D.’s for all 43 graduate departments Competencies required for those jobs Graduate students’ reported professional interests, needs, and challenges Graduate students’ self-reported levels of preparation in each of the GradFUTURES competencies GradFUTURES program participation Learning outcomes of our programs Graduate student satisfaction with our programs Ivy-plus benchmarking of professional development efforts and best practices
