best undergrad english departments?

bclintonk
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:13:45 +0000

do you think english professor or lawyer is a harder job market? i pretty much want to be one of those…



LOL. Law schools are crawling with English majors–and more than a few English Ph.D.s–who decided the academic job market was too tough. Not so much movement in the opposite direction, with unsuccessful lawyers seeking English Ph.D.s. I understand the job market for lawyers is pretty tough these days, too, but I suspect the success rate for law school grads seeking permanent, professional-level jobs is quite a bit higher than the success rate for newly minted English Ph.D.s landing tenure-track positions at colleges and universities.