Columbia University
The Graduate Program
Employment
History Department Employment Data
PhDs Granted 2/2000 – 2/2021
|
All
(n=472) |
3 Years Out (n=80)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Tenure-Track | 45% | 24% |
| International (tenure-track equivalent) | 9% | 0% |
| Total Tenure-Track Position | 54% | 24% |
| Term Appointments (VAP, etc.) | 3% | 9% |
| Postdoctoral Appointment | 6% | 27.5% |
| Total Non-Tenure-Track Position | 9% | 36.5% |
| Total Full-Time Teaching Position | 63% | 60.5% |
| Total Adjunct/Part-Time Appointments | 7% | 15% |
| Secondary Education Cultural Institutions University Administration Non-Profit Organizations Publishing Self-Employed Writers/Historians |
14% | 10% |
| Total Non-Academic | 11% | 6% |
| No Information/Unemployed | 4% | 12.5% |