Assistant professors at higher ranked vs lower ranked universities

93tiger16
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:33:10 +0000

I will not resort to mud-slinging and questioning of character as a substitute for reasoned argument. That is the realm of those who refuse to reason. Grow up. Therefore, I will only address ucbalumnus’s post.



Those PhD graduates distribute themselves to faculty positions at various “tiers” of universities as a percentage of the those PhD graduates, not the percentage of the faculty at the universities.

Can you please explain this a little more? I’m not sure I understand. Do you mean that the top PhD graduates go to the top universities as faculty and lower PhD graduates go to lower-tier universities? I would agree with that, but DoubleD seems to have something else in mind, as that post led off with:

I do not particularly agree with that PhD students from prestigious universities mainly find jobs in prestigious universities.

Or perhaps you were thinking of something else?

If PhD graduates are recruited by industry, I would be interested in seeing why graduates from lower-tier programs are being recruited, and therefore unable to vie for faculty positions at higher tier universities, and graduates from top-tier programs are not being recruited and go on to become heavily represented at top universities.