More PhDs stay at home: Summary of the Biochemistry Graduate Employment Survey 2003
Author(s) -
Mike Withnall
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio02701047
Subject(s) - destinations , medical education , work (physics) , graduate students , demographic economics , psychology , medicine , political science , engineering , economics , tourism , law , mechanical engineering
The initial destinations of first-degree and Masters graduates were very similar to the previous year, but there were marked reductions in the proportions of PhD graduates choosing to work abroad (down from 9.3 to 1.4%) or to move outside science (down from 6.5 to 1.8%).There was a corresponding increase in the proportion of PhD graduates undertaking research in UK institutions (up from 40.7 to the unusually high figure of 50.7%).
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