The Danish PhD programme is divided into two: a conventional PhD where the student is employed solely at a university, and an industrial PhD where the student divides his or her time between the university and a company in cooperation with which the thesis is written. PhD education is said to have different raisons d'être rooted in both academia and society, for which reason the expected outcomes of the programmes naturally vary. This poster analyses the systematic difference between the PhD programmes in publication quantity during and after the PhD.The analysis was originally assigned by the Vice-Dean for Research and Head of the PhD School at the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. We studied the output of PhDs at the faculty finishing between 2009 and 2016 including similar numbers of conventional and industrial PhD students from the same research groups to try to get comparable data from similar fields of study. We looked for difference in publication numbers during and after the PhD.We found that conventional PhDs publish more during the PhD than do industrial PhDs (P<0.05; without outlier P<0.1). Publication numbers after the PhD and for the whole period observed showed no significant difference between conventional and industrial PhDs. However, since small sample studies have a high risk of false negatives, we cannot dismiss that a difference would not reveal itself, were more comparisons to be made especially considering the difference during the PhDs shown here.