Over the past five years, approximately 80 percent of Smith School PhD graduates accepted positions as tenure track assistant professors at an accredited university directly upon graduation, and 19 percent accepted research related positions in either private or governmental organizations. In other words, approximately 99 percent of our PhD students have been successfully placed directly upon graduation.
| Arizona State University | University of Florida |
| Carnegie Mellon University | University of Hong Kong |
| Columbia University | University of Iowa |
| Cornell University | University of Massachusetts |
| Erasmus University, Netherlands | University of Miami |
| George Washington University | University of Michigan |
| Georgetown University | University of Minnesota |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Harvard University | University of Notre Dame |
| HEC Paris, France | University of Pennsylvania |
| Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | University of Pittsburgh |
| IE, Spain | University of South Carolina |
| Indian School of Business, India | University of Southern California |
| Indiana University | University of Texas, Austin |
| London Business School | University of Virginia |
| McGill University | University of Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Michigan State University | University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
| Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | University of Western Ontario |
| Peking University, China | University of Wisconsin |
| Pennsylvania State University | Vanderbilt University |
| Rice University | Villanova University |
| Texas A&M University | Wake Forest University |
| University of California, Los Angeles |