PhD Student Outcomes

Launch into a High-Impact Career

Whether the compass guiding your sense of purpose points toward startups or med school, an academic appointment or industry, from Duke BME you’ll launch into a career that means something to you—and to the world.

Meet Our PhD Students

Our students have the freedom to focus making impacts on the topics most important to them. Click to hear their stories.

MERCY ASIEDU:
Low-cost cancer screening

MARK DRAELOS:
Imaging for better surgery

CASLIN GILROY:
Improving diabetes drugs

Success in Numbers

Our PhD graduates go on to make important contributions across a range of opportunities. Click to get interactive with our data.

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18%

go on to positions in academia

at places such as Duke, Harvard, MIT and the National University of Singapore

63%

go on to careers in industry and the public sector

with leading organizations such as BD Biosciences, GE Healthcare and the National Institutes of Health

15%

go on to further training

including post-doctoral fellowships and medical school

Meet Duke BME Alumni

Collegiate Inventors Competition finalist: Kishen Mitra, B.S. ‘24

Recent BME alumnus Kishen Mitra is taking his 3D-printed full meniscus replacement to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition

9/24 Pratt School of Engineering

$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program

The Karsh STEM+ Scholars Program will match undergraduate students who have declared majors in disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering, and STEM-related fields with faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

1/8 Pratt School of Engineering

Impacting Pediatric Eye Care Around the World

Dr. Stacy Pineles, a 2000 BME graduate, relies on her Duke Engineering foundations as an eye surgeon and the leader of an NIH-supported clinical trials network

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