In April 2019, The University of Chicago joined the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science. The Coalition's goal is to provide a standardized approach to data collection and presentation with the aim of providing transparency for students considering bioscience careers. The data will also be useful in identifying areas for improvement in our educational efforts. The data that are being collected at 51 member institutions include:
- Admissions selectivity
- The median time it takes to complete a Ph.D. degree and the median time spent in postdoctoral training
- The demographics of students and postdocs
- The job outcomes of students
These efforts are ongoing. The graphics below are an overview of our students, but the heart of the coalition's work is the ability to compare individual programs at each member institution. Individual program data may be found below.
Graduate Student Data Overview 1999-2019
The graduate data is based on the sixteen active graduate programs listed below. It does not include MD/PhD students
*URM - Among domestic students the following racial and ethnic groups are underrepresented in biomedical research: Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. See the National Institutes of Health Guide Notice NOT-OD-20-031
Data for individual bioscience graduate programs
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Cancer Biology
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Committee on Evolutionary Biology
- Computational Neuroscience
- Development, Regeneration and Stem Cell Biology
- Ecology & Evolution
- Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology
- Human Genetics
- Immunology
- Integrative Biology
- Medical Physics
- Microbiology
- Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
- Neurobiology
- Public Health Sciences