School's prestige / Publication / PI - to be a professor?

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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:28:45 +0000

ParAlum:

Ideally, I want to be a professor at a university because I want to do both research and teaching.
I don’t think I will be picky about size as long as I have the source I need for my research and have the chance to teach under/graduate students.

Sakky:

I would believe if you said that ranking at the particular field and interesting research are the most important factors to obtain a professorship at a large university. But at the end, you stated that this does not apply to natural science.

So can we say: choose a graduate school where you feel will give you the opportunity to produce the highest quality and number of publications if you want to be a professor in natural science.