Recent Graduates
ϳԹM.A. students are highly competitive candidates for places in top Ph.D. programs across Canada and internationally. Recent graduates have been admitted to McGill, York, Alberta, Toronto, Victoria, and Western Ontario, as well as UC Santa Cruz, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago, and Cambridge, and to Dalhousie’s own Ph.D. program. Others have gone on to careers in law, publishing, communications, journalism, and education.
ϳԹPh.D. students have been very successful in finding academicpositions, even in today'suncertain job market. A significant number of our PhD graduatesnow hold full-time or part-time academic positions; these includetenure-track positions at the University of Victoria, the University ofRegina, the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Algoma UniversityCollege, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Wilfred LaurierUniversity, as well as contract appointments at Harvard, Dalhousie, Dawson College,and Saint Mary's.
Academia is only one of the career paths taken by our graduates; they have gone on to jobs in editing, public service, writing, web site development, freelance writing, and teaching.