Statistics Canada researchers Marc Frenette and Tomasz Handler have published the latest article in their series on the jobs held by postsecondary graduates, this time focused on doctoral degree program graduates. Many doctoral programs are designed to train graduates for the professoriate, and Frenette and Handler noted that this was reflected in the fact that—in most fields—the most prevalent or second most prevalent job held by graduates was “university professor or lecturer.” Aside from this, graduates frequently held other roles in the education sector or in field-specific jobs, such as graduates of an engineering program becoming an engineer. The researchers note that the findings of this study may help students who are interested in pursuing a doctoral degree to understand the jobs in and outside of academia that they could expect to hold.
