Snapshot: Class of 2013

PhDs Earned:  43

Average Years to Earn a PhD from the Kellogg School:  5.14

Masters in Clinical Investigation Degrees Earned:  3

Years to Complete Masters Program:  2

Previous Masters in Clinical Investigation Degrees Awarded by the Kellogg School:  1

Sample Thesis Titles (PhD and Masters):  “Enzyme Packaging with Qβ Protein Nanoparticles,” “Rational Protein Design with Unnatural Amino Acids,” “Gene Expression Analysis of Circulating Endothelial Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction”

Some Financial Supporters Who Made this Year’s Graduating Class Possible:  The Abrams Charitable Trust, ARCS® Foundation, Biogen Idec Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Craven, Richard and Helen DeVos, Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation, Genentech Foundation, Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, Fletcher Jones Foundation, Found Animals Foundation, Hertz Foundation, Janet R. Kellogg, Lilly USA, National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute, National Science Foundation, Novartis, Pfeiffer Foundation, The Scripps Research Institute Graduate Program, Willits Charitable Foundation

U.S. News & World Report National Ranking for the Kellogg School in the Fields of Biology and Chemistry:  7th and 7th

Some of the New Graduates’ Employers:  Amgen, BP Biofuels, California Institute for Biomedical Research, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Gilead Sciences, Harvard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Technologies, Max Delbrueck Centrum (Germany), McKinsey & Company, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, MIT, Pfizer, Qapsule Technologies, US Navy, GFN Novartis, UC (Santa Cruz, San Diego and San Francisco), University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, University of San Diego

Number of Kellogg School Alumni:  510

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