Academic Distinction


Exceptional Students
Scripps students pursue wide-ranging interests in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM—and discover new and inventive ways to combine these fields of study, often with the goals of challenging assumptions, increasing access, and improving the world. At Scripps, our students enjoy a vibrant community where they live and learn together.
Student Research
Kushnerniva Laurent ’24, environmental analysis major and politics minor on the science track, interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Our students earned research and fellowship grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Davis Projects for Peace, Watson Foundation, and more.
Top Fulbright Producer
Research Grants And Awards
6
Fulbrights
14
fellowships, scholarships, awards
Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards include:
3 Napier Fellows, 1 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, 1 Davis Projects for Peace, 1 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 1 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and 1 Senior Foote Fellowship.

Capstone Day
Scripps’ Capstone Day event, held in May, celebrates the research and hard work graduating seniors dedicate to their theses and final projects in pursuit of their degrees.
Senior Presentations
Capstone Day Data
78
presentations
31
disciplines
260
theses and projects

Graduate Outcomes
Scripps graduates from the Class of 2023 received offers of full-time employment by employers representing a variety of fields, including Adobe, American Museum of Natural History, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, and Johns Hopkins University.
Post-Scripps Plans
(Class of 2024 data available in spring 2025)
$57K
graduate salary
84%
graduate offers
$111K
10+ years
Mean salary reported (Class of 2023); percentage of graduates with employment, graduate school, or fellowship offers; median salary for graduates with 10+ years experience, per Payscale.

Distinguished Faculty
Faculty are the center of Scripps’ academic life, and their scholarship contributes to the intellectual community at Scripps. Our faculty receive funding from leading national and regional foundations for their research, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
Faculty reported receiving grants, awards, and fellowships from national, regional, and local organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, California Arts Council, National Science Foundation, Artist2Artist, and The Huntington Library.
12
awarded
$2.12M
in funding
Academic Achievements
8
new tenure track faculty
1
new endowed chair
6
promotions
200+
faculty accomplishments
NEW ENDOWED CHAIR
Professor of Italian Sabrina Ovan was named as the Sara M. Adler Professor of Italian.
FACULTY GRANT
Professor of Neuroscience Tessa Solomon-Lane was awarded a $929,414 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant by the National Science Foundation.
Faculty Research
Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program grant of more than $24,000 from ASIANetwork funds research trip to Malaysia.
Five faculty were featured on The Academic Minute podcast for a week in April. Listen to their episodes, below:

Ken Gonzales-Day
Fletcher Jones Chair in Art
Myriam J. A. Chancy
Hartley Burr Chair in the Humanities
Patrick Ferree
Associate Professor of Biology
Sarah Marzen
Assistant Professor of Physics
Stacey Wood
Molly Mason Jones Chair in PsychologyHumanities Institute Programming
The Humanities Institute, led by MacArthur Fellowship recipient and Grammy Award–winner Martha Gonzalez, dedicated its programming to re-examining capitalist approaches to human and economic connections.
