Assistant professors at higher ranked vs lower ranked universities

ucbalumnus
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:23:50 +0000

93tiger16:

This suggests that your PhD graduates from top programs are evenly distributed (by percentage) across all tiers of universities.



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. At least that is how I read it.

Of course, those PhD graduates from “lower tier” programs may be more restricted in finding faculty positions. But remember that they do not necessarily become employed as faculty. In a subject like CS, industry comes recruiting. In some other subjects, it may be a bit tougher.