PhD Outcomes from the Past Cycle
This past year, at least 9 of 10 MACSS applicants (90%) were successful in securing fully funded doctoral offers.
On average, our students received more than 4 PhD offers each.
In Political Science, 2 students were accepted for the PhD at Stanford, Yale, UC-San Diego, UPenn, Emory, Toronto, Rochester, Washington-St. Louis, Rice, Penn State, and Iowa.
In Psychology, 1 student was accepted for the PhD at Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, and Western Ontario.
In Sociology, 2 students were accepted for the PhD at Northwestern, Washington-Seattle, and SUNY-Albany.
In Business, 4 students were accepted for the PhD at UChicago (Booth), UC-Berkeley, Northwestern, Cornell, NYU, UCLA, Washington-St. Louis, UT-Austin, UC-San Diego, INSEAD, Washington-Seattle, Imperial, Columbia, London Business School, Minnesota, and EPFL (the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne).
In Management Science and Engineering, 1 student was accepted for the PhD at Stanford.
In Computer Science, 1 student was accepted for the PhD at Northwestern and Boston University.
Earlier PhD Outcomes (2017-2020)
MACSS was launched in 2016, and we first began placing our graduates for the PhD in 2017.
In our first four graduating cohorts, 24 of 29 (83%) MACSS applicants were accepted for the PhD with full funding.
6 were accepted at the University of Chicago for PhD study.
In Economics, 6 of 9 applicants were accepted for the PhD, at UChicago, Harvard, Northwestern, Cornell, Princeton, Toronto, UPenn, UC-San Diego, Minnesota, Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan-Ann Arbor, Rochester, Brown, Boston University, Johns Hopkins, Penn State, UT-Austin, UCLA, and CEMFI.
In Political Science, 2 of 2 applicants were accepted for the PhD, both at Princeton.
In Psychology, 3 of 3 applicants were accepted for the PhD, at UChicago (3), Yale, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Illinois-Urbana Champaign.
In Sociology, 4 of 5 applicants were accepted for the PhD, at UChicago (2), Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, Ohio State, Rutgers, SUNY-Albany, and New Mexico.
In Other disciplines, 20 MACSS graduates were accepted for the PhD in Business (MIT, Michigan-Ann Arbor, Cornell, Northwestern, Columbia, Stanford, Boston University, Harvard, UC-Berkeley, Washington-St. Louis, UCLA, and University College-London), Communications (UPenn), Computer Science (Toronto, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Criminology (UPenn, UC-Irvine, Maryland, UIC), Information Science (Michigan-Ann Arbor, Cornell, Northwestern, Washington-Seattle, Indiana-Bloomington), Network Science (Northeastern), and Public Policy (Cornell).