Placement
UT-Austin graduates fare well on the academic and alt-academic job markets. Recent graduates have secured positions in a wide range of colleges and universities, as well as in secondary schools, higher education and humanities administration, publishing, technology, consulting, development, among other fields. Our placement rates are above the national average for Ph.D. programs. We attribute this success to the outstanding training our students receive as researchers, teachers, and administrators.
View Career Outcomes of UT English Ph.D. Alumni from 2011-2022.
Career Outcomes by Category, 2013 - 2022:
| Tenure Track or Full-Time Community College | 29% (46) |
| Non-Tenure Track or Contingent | 29% (46) |
| Private Sector Business and Non-Profit | 18% (28) |
| Academic Administration and Staff | 11% (17) |
| Secondary Education |
6% (10) |
| No Reporting, Uncategorized or Deceased | 7% (11) |
(n=158)
Placement Guides (requires UT EID)
Related Links
- MLA Job Information List
- Higher Ed Jobs
- Academic Jobs Online
- Higher Ed Recruitment Consortium
- List of Fellowships and Grants from the MLA
- List of Postdoctoral Fellowships from UC Berkeley Office of Sponsored Projects
- Fellowship Database from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Vitae: The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Inside Higher Ed
- Life After the PhD
- Versatile PhD
- Liberal Arts Career Services
- Imagine PhD
