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155 Scholars
95 Research Mentors
84 PhD Graduates
44 Current Scholars
82 percent Anticipated PhD Retention rate
PhD Alumni Placement: 40 percent (Academia); 38 percent (Industry/Entrepreneurship; 13 percent (Federal/State/Local Government); 9 percent (Other)

+500 Peer Review Publications, Conference Proceedings, Technical Reports, and Patents
20 countries scholars have participated in global research
- Latin America, Caribbean & South America: Guyana, Bolivia, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico
- East Asia and the Pacific: China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand
- Europe: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands
- Middle East and Africa: Israel, Ethiopia, Tanzania
- Antarctica
14 national labs and federally funded research and development center scholars have conducted dissertation research and/or participated internships.
Brookhaven, Idaho National Lab, Oak Ridge, Berkeley National Lab, Pacific Northwest, National Lab, Naval Research Lab, Air Force Research Lab (2), NASA (3), Argonne, MIT Lincoln, Georgia Tech Research Institute

100+ National Student Awards (NSF, Fulbright, AAUW, Ford, NASA, National Research Council, McKnight, GEM, and others)
USF ranked 1st by NOAA in graduating minority graduate students in oceanography (2016)
USF is recognized as a national leader in conferring engineering doctorates to both African-American and Hispanic students