How to become a professor?

angryelf
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:15:39 +0000

Go to undergrad at a top 5-10 research university or a top liberal arts college for undergrad.
Get straight As while simultaneously volunteering for any type of research position and sucking up to potential advisers.
Get perfect standardized test scores.
Continue doing research, get your name on a few major publications.
Go to a top 5 phd program.
Be one of the top students in your phd program.
Apply for tenure track positions at given universities (put yourself through grueling multi-day interviews competing against the best and brightest across the world.)

If this is for math or econ, it’s nearly impossible. History might be relatively easier, but it is by no means easy.