When judging a PhD program, a good measure of the program's standing is where it places its graduates. Columbia is proud to say its placement record is among the best in the world.
Recent Columbia PhD placements include the following:
Accounting
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Yuan Zou |
2019 |
Harvard Business School |
| Nan Li |
2018 |
Minnesota School of Management |
| Erik Johannesson |
2018 |
Baruch College |
| Xinlei Li |
2017 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST Business School |
| Ethan Rouen |
2017 |
Harvard University, Harvard Business School |
| Cyrus Aghamolla |
2016 |
Minnesota, Carlson School of Management |
| Yu Ting "Forester" Wong |
2016 |
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California |
| Colleen Honigsberg |
2016 |
Stanford Law School |
| Yung Fang |
2015 |
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University |
| Miguel Duro Rivas |
2015 |
IESE Business School, University of Navarra |
| Shira Cohen |
2014 |
Temple University, Fox School of Business and Management |
| Beatrice Michaeli |
2014 |
UCLA, Anderson School of Business |
| Hyung-Il Oh |
2014 |
University of Washington, Bothell School of Business |
| Oded Rozenbaum |
2014 |
The George Washington University School of Business |
| Jon Kerr |
2013 |
City University of New York, Baruch, Zicklin School of Business |
| Meng Li |
2013 |
George Mason University |
| Helen Hurwitz |
2012 |
Saint Louis University, John Cook School of Business |
| Hyun Ah Lee |
2011 |
University of Maryland, Robert H. School of Business |
| Xiaojing Meng |
2011 |
New York University Stern School of Business |
| Hagit Levy |
2010 |
Zicklin School Of Business, Baruch College |
| Bugra Ozel |
2010 |
University of California Los Angeles, Anderson School of Business |
| Divya Anantharaman |
2009 |
Rutgers University |
Decision, Risk, and Operations
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Francisco Castro |
2019 |
UCLA Anderson School of Management, faculty in Decisions, Operations and Technology Management |
| Pu He |
2019 |
Two Sigma, Quantitative Researcher |
| Fei Long |
2019 |
UNC Chapel Hill, faculty in Marketing |
| Wenqi Hu |
2017 |
Uber |
| Zhe Liu |
2019 |
Imperial College Business School, faculty in Analytics and Operations Management |
| Dongwook Shin |
2017 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Kai Yuan |
2017 |
Two Sigma Investments |
| Davide Crapis |
2016 |
Lyft |
| Daniel Guetta |
2016 |
Palantir Technologies |
| Cinar Kilcioglu |
2016 |
Uber |
| Lijian Lu |
2016 |
Goldman Sachs Asset Management |
| Chen Xie |
2016 |
VTS, Inc |
| John Yao |
2016 |
University of Miami |
| Juan Chaneton |
2015 |
Celect |
| Daniela Saban |
2015 |
Stanford GSB |
| Hua Zheng |
2015 |
JP Morgan |
| Yonatan Gur |
2015 |
Stanford GSB |
| Caner Gocmen |
2013 |
Nomis Solutions |
| Ahmet Serdar Simsek |
2013 |
Visiting faculty, Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering |
| Yina Lu |
2013 |
Post doctoral position, the Wharton School |
| Sang Won Kim |
2013 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School |
| Santiago Balseiro |
2013 |
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University |
| Damla Gunes |
2012 |
Morgan Stanley |
| Bar Ifrach |
2012 |
Post Doctoral Position, Stanford University |
| Roger Lederman |
2012 |
IBM Watson Research |
| Margaret Pierson |
2012 |
Post Doctoral Position, Harvard Business School |
| Mehmet Saglam |
2012 |
Bendheim Center for Finance & Economics, Princeton University |
| Denis Saure |
2011 |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Mehmet Altug |
2009 |
George Washington University |
| Wei Ke |
2009 |
Novantas |
| Natalia Yankovic |
2009 |
IESE Business School |
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Finance
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Rebecca De Simone |
2020 |
London Business School |
| Xiao Cen |
2020 |
Texas A&M |
| Tuomas Tomunen |
2020 |
Boston College |
| Danqing Mei |
2020 |
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business |
| Yifeng Guo |
2020 |
AQR Capital |
| Yahui Yang |
2020 |
Dimensional Fund Advisors |
| Minchen Zheng |
2019 |
Man Group Hedge Fund |
| Ruoke Yang |
2019 |
Post Doc, Imperial College London |
| Ran Xu |
2018 |
Boston College |
| Joshua Mitts |
2018 |
Columbia Law School |
| Zoi Melina Papoutsi |
2018 |
European Central Bank |
| Pablo Slutsky |
2017 |
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business |
| Ye Li |
2017 |
The Ohio State University, Fisher School of Business |
| Jaehyun Cho |
2015 |
QMS Capital Management |
| Bingxu Chen |
2015 |
Soros Fund Management |
| Mattia Landoni |
2014 |
Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business |
| Bronson Argyle |
2014 |
Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business |
| Jun Kyung Auh |
2014 |
Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business |
| Zhongjin Lu |
2014 |
University of Georgia, Terry School of Business |
| Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe |
2013 |
London School of Economics |
| Andres Liberman |
2013 |
New York University, Stern School of Business |
| Olga Kuzmina |
2012 |
New Economic School |
| Sergiy Gorovyy |
2012 |
Morgan Stanley |
| Oliver Faltin-Traeger |
2012 |
BlackRock Associates |
| Yiqun Mou |
2011 |
Bank of America. Merrill Lynch |
| Ravindra Sastry |
2011 |
Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business |
| Bjarni Torfason |
2011 |
Deutsche Bank |
| Vyacheslav Fos |
2011 |
College of Business at Illinois |
| Andreas Stathopoulos |
2010 |
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business |
| Krista Schwarz |
2010 |
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School |
Management
| Name |
Graduation Year |
Initial Placement |
| Natalie Carlson |
2020 |
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton |
| Ashli Carter |
2019 |
NYU Stern School of Business, Post Doc |
| Jon Jachimowicz |
2019 |
Harvard Business School |
| Dana Kanze |
2019 |
London Business School |
| Alice Lee |
2019 |
Cornell University |
| Elizabeth Moulton |
2019 |
Manhattan College |
| Yoonjin Choi |
2018 |
London Business School |
| Alessandro Piazza |
2018 |
Rice University |
| Ashley Martin |
2018 |
Stanford University |
| Guannan Lu |
2018 |
MIT |
| Jinseok Chun |
2018 |
University of Korea |
| Sunyong Chang |
2018 |
London Business School |
| Elizabeth Wiley |
2017 |
Google |
| Ilona Fridman |
2017 |
PostDoc, Center for Health Policy at Duke University |
| Jaee Cho |
2017 |
HKUST |
| Mitali Banerjee |
2017 |
HEC, Paris |
| Abbie Wazlawek |
2016 |
Kellogg School of Management, Post-doctoral Researcher |
| Jun Huang |
2016 |
KU Leuven |
| Ivana Katic |
2015 |
Yale University |
| Zhi Liu |
2015 |
Peking University |
| Jose Uribe |
2015 |
University of Michigan |
| Andy Yap |
2013 |
Post Doctoral Position, MIT Sloan School of Business |
| Emily Bianchi |
2012 |
Emory University, Goizueta School of Business |
| Aharon Cohen Mohliver |
2012 |
London School of Business |
| Jiao Luo |
2012 |
Carlson School of Management |
| Shu Zhang |
2012 |
Post Doctoral Position, Columbia University |
| Magnus Torfason |
2011 |
Harvard Business School |
| Rebecca Levine |
2010 |
Aon Hewitt Consulting |
| Aurelia Mok |
2010 |
City University of Hong Kong, School of Business |
| Qingyuan Yue |
2010 |
University of Southern California, Marshal School of Business |
| Lily Benjamin |
2009 |
Mercer Development Group |
| Umit Ozmel Yavuz |
2009 |
The University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School |
| Xi Zou |
2009 |
London Business School |
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Marketing
| Name |
Graduation
Year |
Initial Placement |
| Jason Choi |
2020 |
Rutgers Business School |
| Alain Lemaire |
2020 |
University of Texas, Austin |
| Travis Oh |
2020 |
Yeshiva University |
| Nicolas Padilla |
2020 |
London Business School |
| Khaled Boughanmi |
2019 |
Cornell University |
| Noah Castelo |
2019 |
University of Alberta, Canada |
| Rachel Meng |
2019 |
NYU Stern School of Business, Post Doc |
| Ryan Dew |
2018 |
The Wharton School |
| Qitian Ren |
2018 |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Yael Karlinsky-Shichor |
2018 |
Postdoc, NYU |
| Jaeyeon Chung |
2018 |
Rice University |
| Jia Liu |
2017 |
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
| Shiri Melumad |
2017 |
The Wharton School |
| Charlene Chen |
2015 |
Nanyang Business School |
| Liu (Cathy) Yang |
2014 |
HEC, Paris |
| Stephen Atlas |
2013 |
University of Rhode Island |
| Liad Weiss |
2013 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Peter Jarnebrant |
2012 |
ESMT European School of Management and Technology |
| Yang Li |
2012 |
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business |
| Isaac Dinner |
2011 |
IE University (Spain) |
| Zaozao Zhang |
2011 |
University of Washington (Seattle) |
