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This story again. The oversupply of aspiring scholars is really really not news. What would be news is any sign that things are changing, with applications to
by johan_larson 10y ago
This story again. The oversupply of aspiring scholars is really really not news.
What would be news is any sign that things are changing, with applications to grad school dropping, or maybe the expansion of graduate school degrees that are explicitly not aimed at professorships.
- projectramo 10y agoI had always heard that this was the case in philosophy, literature and so on. Then, a few years ago, I heard it was the case in the sciences. Now it is in the technical disciplines, and it is egregious. (4x oversupply). The magnitude and the discipline is the news here (at least for me).
- ryanSrich 10y agoGetting your graduate degree solely to gain professorship is a bad look for anyone, even in engineering. The supply of professors across the board has been extremely high for at least 5 years.
- sseagull 10y agoThe lack of scientists has been a myth for a long time, and probably comes from the lumping of very different fields under the umbrella of "STEM". Lots of good info from the IEEE Spectrum (2013): "The STEM Crisis is a Myth" http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth-an-ongoing-discussion http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth-an...