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# Academia hired 31.6% of new AI PhDs in the US and Canada in 2024, up from 19.9% in 2022
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/new-ai-phds-share-academia-industry/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:05:51.000Z
- Description: 31.6% of new AI PhDs in the US and Canada took academic jobs in 2024, up 11.6 percentage points since 2022. Industry's share fell from 70.7% to 62.7%, its lowest since 2020.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI in Education, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-education, #country-us

31.6%

▲ 11.6 pts since 2022

share of new AI PhDs in the US and Canada going into academia, 2024

20102024

## What the chart shows

Academia’s share of new AI PhD graduates in the US and Canada rose to 31.6% in 2024, from 19.9% in 2022, its highest since 2013 (34.0%). Industry’s share fell from its peak of 70.7% in 2022 to 62.7%, the lowest since 2020.

Industry has taken the largest share in every year since 2010, when the two sectors were nearly level (44.4% and 42.1%). Government’s share rose to 2.0% in 2024 from a low of 0.7% in 2021.

## Key numbers

| Measure                | Value  |
| ---------------------- | ------ |
| Academia, 2024         | 31.59% |
| Academia, 2022         | 19.95% |
| Industry, 2024         | 62.75% |
| Industry, 2022 (peak)  | 70.71% |
| Government, 2024       | 1.96%  |
| Government, 2021 (low) | 0.67%  |

## How to read it

- Shares are of all new AI PhDs in the CRA Taulbee Survey. Graduates who were self-employed, unemployed or reported another status are not shown, so the lines do not add up to 100% (96.3% in 2024).
- The AI Index text says academia’s share nearly doubled since 2022; in the data it rose 1.6 times (19.9% to 31.6%). The number of academic hires did nearly double, from 79 to 145 (companion chart).
- The AI Index text’s industry share of 65% and peak of 77% use the three sectors as the base; this chart uses all new AI PhDs.

**Source:** [CRA Taulbee Survey](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#cra-taulbee), 2011–25, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 7.2.8: *Employment of new AI PhDs (% of total) in the United States and Canada by sector, 2010–24*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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