Questions about teaching in US high schools

Sombre
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:16:54 +0000

Thanks for your help. ;)

I’ve got another question about teaching but about college. I know that in the sciences, the traditional route is PhD → post-doc —> post-doc —> post-doc —> either industry or THAT professorship. At least, that’s what people who’re out of grad school have been saying and it’s been that way for a long time now. 5 years of post docs is more than enough, apparently.

Anyway, I hear that for statistics, bio-statistics/computational biology (anything bio, really), finance and economics, things are very different as the traditional route is to go into industry. From what I understand, it’s pretty standard to interview directly for assistant professorships and not go through post-docs. At least, that’s as far as econ/finance and stats go. So, for foreigners with PhDs, is it hard to get a work visa?