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Nearly everyone I know that graduated with a PhD from an R1 universities Would these people perhaps be clustered in a particular field? I'd guess that things
by nkurz 11y ago
Nearly everyone I know that graduated with a PhD from an R1 universities
Would these people perhaps be clustered in a particular field? I'd guess that things are very different depending on the percentage of PhD's in a field who go into academia versus industry. For example, the academic job market for Astronomy is very different than CS, because there are many more non-academic options for CS graduates.
I think even an outstanding Astronomy PhD from a top tier university may find it difficult to get a tenure track position in their field. The same would probably be true for CS if all the graduates were to pursue academic positions, but since many go into industry, there is less competition for tenure track positions among those who want to teach.
- mcguire 11y agoNot necessarily a good example. Astronomy has that weird, assassination-based promotion system.
- dstyrb 11y agoNice Tycho Brahe reference.
- dstyrb 11y agoIn astronomy I've always heard the rule of 10s. 10% of astronomers get the PhD, 10% of the PhDs get post docs, 10% of post docs get tenure. And tenure in 0-2 years? That's impossible outside of China or India or the Soviet bloc. I think the average amount of time an Astronomer spends in post-docs is 9-12 years.
- mangamadaiyan 11y agoAFAIK, tenure in 0-2 years is difficult even in India.