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. 2020 Jan 3;9:e48774. doi: 10.7554/eLife.48774

Table 1. Percentage of PhDs and postdocs who enter academic positions.

Population Outcome Year(s) Citation
Biomedical PhDs who enter academia (research/teaching) 43% 2012 (Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, 2012)
Biomedical PhDs who enter tenure-track 23% 2012 (Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, 2012)
Life Science PhDs who enter tenure-track within 5 years 8.1% 2015 (National Science Foundation, 2018)
Biomedical Postdocs who enter tenure-track 27.4% 1980–2003 (Kahn and Ginther, 2017)
Biomedical Postdocs who enter tenure-track 21% 2013 (Kahn and Ginther, 2017)
UCSF Postdocs who enter faculty positions 37% 2000–2013 (Silva et al., 2016)