Career Development

The BBS Program, the Yale Graduate School, and the university as a whole strongly encourage students to investigate careers both within and beyond academia. As shown in the graphs below, BBS students have been extraordinarily successful in their career pursuits and do enter very diverse career paths. Of the 1,150 students who have graduated since 2001, career data are available for 98% of these graduates. Of those for whom data exist, the unemployment rate is only 0.1%. The graphs below divide graduates into two pools: a) recent graduates, many of whom pursue postdoctoral training upon graduation; and b) older graduates, most of whom are now in established careers.