BECOME AN ACADEMIC SPONSOR
For Faculty, Departmental Chairs, Directors of Graduate Studies, or College & University Administrators who wish to support their Graduate Students, Postdocs, and/or Graduate Alumni in their Career Success.
About Us
The Erdős Institute is a multi-university collaboration focused on helping PhDs get jobs they love at every stage of their career. Founded in 2017, the Institute helps train and place a diverse pool of graduate students, postdocs, and graduate alumni.
Participants from sponsoring departments & institutions have free access to all of the Career Exploration & Career Launch programming and resources that the Institute provides. Examples include the "Invitations to Industry" Career Exploration Seminars, Data Science Bootcamps, Alumni-Led Mini-Courses, Interview Prep Workshops, and Career Coaching.
Sponsorships
Institutional career launch cohort sponsorships start at $500 per person per cohort with discounts for returning participants and additional discounts based on the number of participants your department or institution is choosing to sponsor.
The Erdős Institute can also provide letters of support for faculty who wish to include Erdős professional development support into the Broader Impacts section of their grant applications.
We thank the individual faculty and staff from the following institutions who have chosen to financially support the professional development of their graduate students, postdocs, and/or graduate alumni through the Erdős Institute.
As a professor who takes mentoring of PhD students seriously, I am absolutely thrilled that our department has partnered with the Erdős Institute to help our graduate students and postdocs appreciate the broad range of amazing career opportunities available to PhDs in math and beyond.
I have seen a dramatic improvement in student mental health and willingness to persist in our program---even among the cohort of PhD students and postdocs planning academic careers--- as these young scientists come to realize the huge range of genuinely interesting careers in industries virtually desperate to hire them, their own students and their peers. With their deep technical skills, creative impulse, quick learning curve and amazing stamina, our PhD students are gaining, through Erdős Institute programming and support, the confidence and connections they need to land terrific jobs in tech, finance, consulting, government and more. In addition, through Erdős, I am growing my own network of PhD alumni working outside academics; this provides a tremendous resource for our students--- internships, employment, advice, and support--- and recently, even a financial donation to our program!
I can't tell you how rewarding it is to hear from former students who are thrilled with their careers, and using the high-level mathematical training we provided to lead on some of society's most pressing issues, including climate change, cyber security, the pandemic, and income inequality. Thank you, Erdős Institute! – Prof. Karen Smith, Chair, University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics