The Ross PhD is one of the top doctoral programs offered at the University of Michigan, and it has one of the highest rates of academic placement.

In the past five years, 100 percent of Ross PhD graduates secured placements at top universities around the world and 85 percent received tenure track assistant professor positions. This high rate of success is a direct result of our hands-on approach to developing research skills, and our outstanding teacher development program.

See where our recent PhD graduates have landed academic positions by area of study:

Accounting

2017 Ryan McDonough

Rutgers University
2017 Nayana Reiter

University of Toronto
2016 Christina Synn

University of North Carolina
2015 Jason Chen

University of Illinois at Chicago
2015 Randy Hucks

Eastern Michigan University
2015 Jed Neilson

Penn State University
2015 Jordan Schoenfeld

University of Utah

2014

Brad Hendricks

University of North Carolina

2013

Emmanuel De George

London Business School

2013

Jeff Hoopes

Ohio State University

2013

Tianshu Qu

Nanyang Technology University

2012

Beth Blankespoor

Stanford University

2011

Ken Merkley

Cornell University

2011

Nemit Shroff

MIT

2010

Michael Minnis

University of Chicago

2010

Gwen Yu

Harvard University

2009

Lian Fen Lee

Boston College

Business Economics

2018 Chang, Jin Woo

Mercer
2018 Zhang, Xu

London Business School
2015 Danial Asmat

Economic Analysis Group, Department of Justice
2015 Michael Olabisi

Pepperdine University
2014 Sutirtha Bagchi

Villanova University
2014 Sasha Brodsky

Analysis Group
2014 Christina DePasquale

Emory University
2014 Marek Zapletal

The Brattle Group

2013

Sarah Stith

University of New Mexico

2013

 Bo Zhao

University of Hong Kong

2011

 Xiaoyang Li

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

2010

Bo Huang

HEC in Paris

2010

Nicholas Powers

Brattle Group

2010

Nathan Wilson

Federal Trade Commission

2009

Hein Bogaard

George Washington University

2009

Eun-Hee Kim

George Washington University

2009

Yao Lu

Tsinghua University

Finance

2018 Rahul Chhabra

Charles River Associates
2018 Koustav De

University of Kentucky
2018 Paula Suh

University of Georgia
2016 John Huck

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2016 Sahil Raina

University of Alberta
2016 Christina Zafeiridou

Cornerstone Research
2015 Matthew Linn

UMass Amherst
2015 Kuncheng (KC) Zheng

Northeastern University
2014 Taylor Begley

London Business School
2014 Jason Kotter

Penn State University
2014 Seungjoon Oh

Peking University
2014 Daniel Weagley

Georgia Institute of Technology

2013

Stefanos Delikouras

University of Miami

2013

Shinwoo Kang

Hitotsubashi University

2013

Seokwoo Lee

George Mason University

2013

Maciej Szefler

Securities & Exchange Commission

2012

Alex Hsu

Georgia Tech

2012

Gi Hyun Kim

University of Warwick, UK

2012

Di Li

Georgia State University

2012

Chen Xue

University of Cincinnati

2011

Celim Yildizhan

University of Georgia

2011

Min Zhu

World Bank

2009

Deniz Anginer

World Bank

2009

Ryan Israelsen

Indiana University

2009

Joe Warburton

Syracuse University

Management and Organizations

2018 Cassandra Chambers

Bocconi University
2018 Chen Zhang

Tsinghua University
2017 Lyndon Garrett

Boston College
2017 Ashley Hardin

Washington University
2017 Yong Hyun Kim

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2016 Maddy Ong

Singapore Management University
2015 Matt Karlesky

Suffolk University
2015 Suntae Kim

Boston College
2015 Chris Myers

Harvard Business School
2014 Johan Chu

University of Chicago
2014 Laura Rees

University of Missouri - Kansas City
2014 Kristina Workman

Cornell University

2013

Jeff Bednar

Brigham Young University

2013

Natalie Cotton-Nessler

Bentley University

2013

Chak Fu Lam

Suffolk University

2013

Samir Nurmohamed

University of Pennsylvania

2013

Ned Wellman

Arizona State University

2012

Maria Farkas

Imperial College, London

2011

J. Adam Cobb

University of Pennsylvania

2011

Brent Rosso

Montana State University

2011

Flannery Stevens

University of Utah

2010

Michelle Barton

Boston University

2009

Marlys Christianson

University of Toronto

2009

Kathryn Dekas

Google

2009

Daniel Gruber

Northwestern University

2009

Aleksandra Kacperczyk

MIT

Marketing

2018 Tong Guo

Duke
2018 Xu Zhang

London Business School
2017 Eunsoo Kim

Nanyang Technological University
2017 Sina Esteky

Miami University
2016 Jihoon Cho

University of Technology Sydney
2016 Linda Hagen

University of Southern California
2016 Mike Palazzolo

University of California, Davis
2015 Stephanie Carpenter

University of Wisconsin
2015 Christine Kang

California State University, Long Beach
2015 Jenny Olson

University of Kansas
2015 Jason Stornelli

Oregon State University
2014 Adithya Pattabhiramaiah

Georgia Institute of Technology
2014 Beatriz Pereira

Iowa State University
2014 Megan Witmer

Facebook

2013

Kee Yeun Lee

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2013

James A. Mourey

DePaul University

2013

Hee Mok Park

University of Connecticut

2013

Robert Smith

Ohio State University

2011

Sinem Atakan

Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey

2011

Ryan  Elder

Brigham Young University

2011

Hiroshi Onishi

Dentsu Inc., Japan

2009

Eleanor McDonnell Feit

University of Pennsylvania

2009

Thales S. Teixeira

Harvard University

Strategy

2018 Casidhe Horan

London Business School
2018 Gareth Keeves  
2018 Sara Ryoo

SUNY Binghamton
2017 Guy Shani

Michigan State
2016 Heewon Chae

Arizona State University
2015 Gianluigi Giustiziero

SKEMA Business School

2014

Heeyon Kim

National University of Singapore

2013

John Chen

University of Florida

2013

Na-Eun Cho

Clarkson University

2012

Pranav Garg

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

2012

Sun Hyun Park

University of Southern California

2011

Bo Kyung Kim

Southern Methodist University

2011

Vivek Tandon

National University of Singapore

2010

David Benson

Brigham Young University

Technology and Operations

2018 Jacob Chestnut

Cornell University
2018 Evgeny Kagan

Johns Hopkins
2018 Murray Lei

Queens University
2018 Iris Wang

UIUC
2017 Qi (George) Chen

University of Texas - Dallas
2016 Hakjin Chung

KAIST
2016 Liang Ding

Bain & Company
2015 Ruth Beer

Indiana University
2015 Yao Cui

Cornell University
2015 Daniel Rush

University of Northern Colorado
2015 Ajit Sharma

Carnegie Mellon University
2014

Thunyarat (Bam) Amornpetchkul

 National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
2014

Suresh Malladi

 University of Arkansas
2014

Anyan Qi

 University of Texas at Dallas
2014

Santhosh Suresh

 McKinsey and Company

2013

Sanghee Lim

Johns Hopkins University

2013

Yan Yin

HEC Paris

2012

Suleyman Demirel

Zayed University

2012

Terence Saldanha

Emporia State University

2012

Dadi Wang

McGill University

2011

Eren Cetinkaya

McKinsey and Company

2011

Sripad Devalkar

Indian School of Business

2011

Bin Hu

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2011

Min-Seok Pang

George Mason University

2009

Sanjeev Kumar

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

2009

Ali Tafti

University of Illinois

2009

Zhixi Wan

HEC Paris

2009

Man Yu

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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