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> There’s _tons_ of other reasons to get a PhD than to become a professor. Sure; that's why I said, "PhD student looking to enter academia". CS PhDs for the m
by gwd 7y ago
> There’s _tons_ of other reasons to get a PhD than to become a professor.
Sure; that's why I said, "PhD student looking to enter academia". CS PhDs for the most part go into industry (as I did). But if you're a CS prof, you should basically default to telling all of your students except maybe three in your entire career to plan to go to industry. The same thing should hold for physics/chemistry/biology/history/whatever profs: if you have more than one PhD student per decade going on to get a post-doc, you're failing your mentorship duties.
- klipt 7y ago> But if you're a CS prof, you should basically default to telling all of your students except maybe three in your entire career to plan to go to industry. Except it's not like 3 PhD students from $topschool become $topschool professors while 3 students from $randomschool become $randomschool professors. What happens is the top students from top schools become top schools professors. The middling students from top schools become professors at random schools. The students from random schools are unlikely to become professors anywhere. So if you're an MIT professor you can encourage more students into academia. If you're a random school professor, you should encourage them all into industry.