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True enough. Talk to a professor in an area where there is a high-salaried non-academic job market (business, medicine, engineering, CS) and see if you get a di
by theorique 19y ago
True enough. Talk to a professor in an area where there is a high-salaried non-academic job market (business, medicine, engineering, CS) and see if you get a different answer.
- jey 19y agoI thought a CS professor only makes $70k - $90k, even at a prestigious university.
- graywh 19y agoThe CS professors at small schools can make about half that.
- yummyfajitas 19y agoI'm reasonably sure this isn't the case. Even in pure math, postdoc salaries tend to start at $50k ($45k in low cost of living areas like Urbana Champaign). Associate (tenure track, but not yet tenured) profs tend to start at $70k. I can guarantee you engineering/CS makes significantly more. However, the average professor makes very little, because the average professor (of, e.g., Medieval English Literature) has few marketable skills.
- wallflower 19y agohttp://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/ http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/ Only by institution though..