> it was shocking how much competition the graduates had to get a tenure track position at some third rate university when they graduated Counterpoint: assumin

> it was shocking how much competition the graduates had to get a tenure track position at some third rate university when they graduated Counterpoint: assuming a stable size of universities, the average number per professor of supervised doctoral students who receive tenure is 1. How many doctoral students does a professor have on average over the course of their career? By that point, the situation really shouldn't be surprising. It only seems that way because the 20th century saw a period of extremely fast growth of universities, and societal expectations have a lot of inertia.