EMPLOYMENT

All students are concerned about jobs. While Princeton graduate alumni have become lawyers, bankers, editors, writers, and teachers, most applicants enter with the intention of teaching and conducting further research at the college or university level.

Right now the job market for Classics Ph.D.'s is more favorable than in many recent years; but even in bad years the prospects for Princeton Ph.D.'s have typically been very good. The Department offers strong formal and informal support to job-seekers, but no program can guarantee a job at graduation. Talent, achievement, and promise, as proven by the dissertation and attested to by letters of recommendation, are the most important factors.