Translational Medicine MTM Program Statistics

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Sector	Definition
Academia	Any academic institution including K-12 institutions, colleges, universities, some medical centers, or free-standing research institutions where training occurs. Also includes collaborations between biotechnology and academic institutions (e.g technology transfer, clinical trials or laboratories sponsored by for-profit companies).
For-Profit	Any organization that operates to make a profit, including some industry research.
Unknown	Unknown

Career Type	Definition
Health or Research Related	Career that is relevant to the conduct of scientific research and/or health systems. Includes the conduct and oversight of scientific research, and direct/indirect patient care. Includes academic faculty titles at R1-R3 institutions as identified through Carnegie classifications.
Not Related to Health or Research	Career that is not directly relevant to the conduct of scientific research and/or health systems
Primarily Teaching	The primary, although not necessarily the only, focus is education and teaching. Includes academic faculty at all other institutions.
Further Training or Education	Temporary training position. Examples include: postdoctoral research, completing medical residency, or pursuing an additional degree.
Unknown	Unknown

Job Functions Within For-profit

Definitions

Entrepreneurship

Founder, co-founder, CEO or other role that develops, manages, and provides/obtains capital to initiate a business or enterprise. This function does not include staff at a start-up business.

Research Staff

Clinical Research Management	Role that is responsible for the oversight, management, or design of clinical research trials. Examples include clinical research project/trials manager or coordinator.
Epidemiology or Public Health Research	Role that involves planning and directing studies to find ways to prevent and treat public health problem, including the collection and analysis of data to find the causes of diseases and other health problems. Role may include the management of public health programs and seeking ways to improve them.
Postdoctoral (Research)	Temporary mentored training position in scientific research environment following completion of doctoral degree.
Research Staff or Technical Director	Role that directly involves performing or managing research. Examples include research staff, staff scientists, lab/core managers, directors of research facilities, public health analyst, and epidemiologists.

Technical Support and Product Development

Role that requires specialized technical knowledge of a science-related product. Examples include technical support specialist, field application specialist, product development scientist or engineer.

Other health or research related

Business Development, Consulting, and Strategic Alliances	Role that involves the development, execution, management, or analysis of a business. Role may include relationship management, refinement of operational efficiency, or fee-based advisory services. Examples include management consultant, business development professional, market researcher, investment analyst, venture capitalist.
Clinical Services	Role that involves that administration of clinical services or research. Includes roles that support indirect patient care. Examples include: genetics counselor, testing specialist, clinical laboratory staff.
Data Science, Analytics, and Software Engineering	Role that may combine programming, analytics, advanced statistics, data communication, and/or software development.
Intellectual Property and Law	Role that involves the curation, management, implementation or protection of intelligence and creation, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, or trade secrets. Examples include patent agent, patent attorney, and technology transfer specialist.
Regulatory Affairs	Role that involves controlling or evaluating the safety and efficacy of products in areas including pharmaceuticals, medicines, and devices. Examples include institutional regulatory affairs professional, quality control specialist, compliance officer.
Technical Support and Product Development	Role that requires specialized technical knowledge of a science-related product. Examples include technical support specialist, field application specialist, product development scientist or engineer.
Sales and Marketing	Non-technical role that is related to the sales or marketing of a science-related product or service. Examples include medical science liaison, technical sales representative, and marketing specialist.

Unknown

Unknown

Job Functions Within Academia

Definitions

Completing MD degree

Pursuing additional education that usually results in graduation with conferment of an MD.

Completing other professional degree

Completing Further Education – PhD	Pursuing additional education that usually results in graduation with conferment of a PhD in any discipline.
Completing Further Education - MD/PhD	Pursuing additional education that usually results in graduation with conferment of a MD and PhD.
Completing Further Education - Other Professional	Pursuing additional education that usually results in graduation with conferment of any other professional degrees. Examples include PharmD, DDS, JD or other post-graduate degree.

Other health or research related

Administration	Administrative-intensive roles. Examples include: Faculty affairs, graduate program administrators, human resources, academic admissions, career development offices, grant and contracts management, and research development.
Faculty: Tenured/Tenure Track	Leading an academic research team and eligible for or already tenured. Examples include: assistant professor, associate professor, professor.
Postdoctoral (Research)	Temporary mentored training position in scientific research environment following completion of doctoral degree.
Faculty: Nontenure Track	Leading an academic research team and ineligible for tenure. Examples include: Research assistant professor, research associate professor, research professor.
Research Staff or Technical Director	Role that directly involves performing or managing research. Examples include research staff, staff scientists, lab/core managers, directors of research facilities, public health analyst, and epidemiologists.
Science Education and Outreach	Role that involves K-12 teaching or public outreach at a primary/secondary schools, science museum, scientific society, or similar. Examples include high school teacher, museum curriculum development, outreach program administrator.

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Demographics and Completion Rates

Enrollment Demographics (Academic Years 2015-2019)

Gender

	Headcount	Percent
TOTAL	78
Male	38	48.7%
Female	40	51.3%

Citizenship

	Headcount	Percent
TOTAL	78
USPR	56	71.8%
International	22	28.2%

URM

	Headcount	Percent
TOTAL	56
URM	5	8.9%
Non-URM	45	80.4%
Unknown	6	10.7%

Enrollment Demographics presented of all students actively enrolled during the Academic Years 2015-2019.

International Student Definition: A person who is not a citizen, national, or resident alien of the United States. US citizens and permanent residents are labeled as USPR.

Underrepresented Minority (URM) Definition: US citizens and permanent residents who are African American/Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, or Multiracial when one or more are from the preceding racial and ethnic categories.

Completion Rate

Outcome by 2-Year Entering Cohorts

2-Year Entering Cohorts	Earned Masters	No Degree
Cohort 2014-15	100.0% (26)	0.0% (0)
Cohort 2016-17	100.0% (29)	0.0% (0)
Cohort 2018-19	100.0% (34)	0.0% (0)

Completion Rates of Aggregated Cohort 2012-2019

All Students	Headcount	Percent
All Students	89	100.0%

Gender	Headcount	Percent
Female	47	100.0%
Male	42	100.0%

Citizenship	Headcount	Percent
International	24	100.0%
USPR	65	100.0%

URM	Headcount	Percent
URM	5	100.0%
Non-URM	52	100.0%

Entry Cohort Definition: All students who started the program in a given academic year.

Two years of data are rolled into each chart bar to generate a sufficient sample size for data reporting and presentation purposes.

Completion Rate Definition: The percentage of students in the cohort who earned a Master's degree.

Data relating to gender, citizenship status, and URM status are displayed only in aggregate (2014 to 2019), due to the small number of students in some programs.

No data are displayed when the number of students in the sample is less than five to preserve student anonymity.

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Career Outcomes by Five-Year Aggregates

Sector

	Graduating Classes 2015-2019
Academia	36.7% (29)
For-profit	59.5% (47)
Unknown	3.8% (3)

Type

	Graduating Classes 2015-2019
Further training or education	29.1% (23)
Health or research related	65.8% (52)
Primarily teaching	1.3% (1)
Not related to health or research	1.3% (1)
Unknown	2.5% (2)

Job Function Within For-profit

	Graduating Classes 2015-2019
Entrepreneurship	10.9% (5)
Research staff	19.6% (9)
Technical Support and Product Development	32.6% (15)
Other health or research related	30.4% (14)
Unknown	6.5% (3)

Job Function Within Academia

	Graduating Classes 2015-2019
Completing MD degree	34.5% (10)
Pursuing other professional degree	20.7% (6)
Healthcare provider	24.1% (7)
Other health or research related	20.7% (6)

There are 79 students in the Graduating Classes 2015-2019.

Career outcomes of Translational Medicine MTM Alumni presented by Sector, Career Type, and Job Functions within the For-profit and Academia Sectors.

Why 5-Year Aggregates?

To ensure anonymity: Our Master's programs have relatively small numbers of graduates in a given year. Individual student outcomes would be identifiable if the data were disaggregated by both year and program.

The data are more meaningful: Master's students do not move through their programs in true cohorts; instead, they may graduate at different times. Grouping graduates over 5-year periods means that idiosyncratic outcomes are reflected only in the context of more typical outcomes, giving prospective grads a more realistic picture of their own possible career trajectories.

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Translational Medicine MTM Program Statistics

Demographics, Completion Rates, and Career Outcomes

Expand to view definitions for career Sector, Type and Job Function groupings

Expand to view Demographics and Completion Rates data in tabular form

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