To support our quality enhancement processes, we monitor the professional development of our alumni during the first few years following their defense. To this end, we use information from the Lattes platform (a nationwide database of researchers’ resumés) as well as data collected in periodic surveys conducted with the support of admin staff, current students and alumni themselves. The latest round of data collection, conducted in early 2021, revealed that most of our doctors are employed in universities and research centers in Brazil and abroad. A good proportion of our alumni serve at different levels of the compulsory education system, both public and private.

The survey realizado no início de 2021 e o levantamento de informações a partir dos Currículos Lattes dos egressos do período entre 2012 e 2020, revelou que a maioria dos doutores formados pelo PPGE PUC-Rio atuam em universidades e centros de pesquisa no Brasil e no exterior. Boa parte dos egressos de mestrado e doutorado atuam na educação básica pública (federal, municipal e estadual) e privada. Outros ocupam cargos em secretarias governamentais de educação e no terceiro setor.

Alumni are encouraged to pursue further studies, and most of those who received their Master’s degree during the period covered by the data collection (2017-2020) were admitted to Doctoral Programs. Also, those who obtained their doctoral degrees remained associated with our research groups [link para página dos grupos de pesquisa] or with groups in other institutions, and some founded their own study groups. Additionally, a number of these went on to conduct post-doctoral studies in national and foreign institutions, including the University of Essex (UK), Université de Montreal (Canada), University of Évora (Portugal), University of Texas, San Antonio (USA) and several institutions in Brazil, including Fiocruz, Unicamp, USP, UFMS, UFRJ, UFRJ, UERJ, Unirio, UFF and PUC-Rio. At the level of compulsory education, we have alumni employed in well-reputed organisations, many in leadership positions in governmental and non-governmental institutions alike. 

Dentre as instituições de pesquisa com as quais nossos egressos possuem vínculos destacam-se Universidade de Essex (Reino Unido), Universidade de Montréal (Canadá), Universidade de Évora (Portugal), Universidade do Texas, San Antonio (EUA), FIOCRUZ, UNICAMP, USP,  UFMS, UFRJ, UFRJ, UERJ, Unirio, UFF e PUC-Rio. Com relação à educação básica, destacam-se Secretaria Estadual de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Formação Paulo Freire (SME-RJ), Colégio Pedro II, Colégio de Aplicação da UFRJ, Colégio de Aplicação da UERJ, Colégio de Aplicação da UFJF, FAETEC, IFRJ, Colégio Santo Inácio, Colégio Teresiano, Escola EDEM, entre outras.