Assistant professors at higher ranked vs lower ranked universities

93tiger16
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:39:12 +0000

It is certainly possible for both claims to be true, and non-opposed.

This is not possible given #10’s (I do find it interesting that you are reducing us to mere numbers) following claim:

In fact, from what I’ve seen, the percentage of professors from prestigious universities is relatively the same across universities from different tiers.

I’m assuming by this that #10 is including top tier universities in this claim. That is, there would be an 8% rate of professors from prestigious universities across the board, including at prestigious universities (#10 did not make that distinction, so this must be true according to the argument; 8% is arbitrary).

Therefore, your reading doesn’t make sense.

#10 claims that PhD graduates from “top” universities (let’s say in the major for the sake of argument) go widely to faculty positions of various “tiers” of universities.

DoubleD does say that these PhD graduates go to various schools, but DoubleD ALSO qualifies that with “the percentage of professors from prestigious universities is relatively the same across universities.” This suggests that your PhD graduates from top programs are evenly distributed (by percentage) across all tiers of universities. As you yourself acknowledge, ucbalumnus, universities hire faculty who graduated from universities at or above their own “tier.” There will be higher concentrations of faculty from top universities at the top schools, as opposed to your average state school. Therefore, in no world can DoubleD and yourself be correct; thus, your reading is wrong.