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I mean... assuming that the number of tenured positions is constant over time, each professor will supervise on average exactly one student who will get tenure
by black_puppydog 4y ago
I mean... assuming that the number of tenured positions is constant over time, each professor will supervise on average exactly one student who will get tenure themselves. The only difference from that comes from the growth/shrinkage of tenured positions.
So yeah, nearly all of the students a professor supervises will not end up tenured.
- rhino369 4y agoI'm surprised 29% even make tenure track. I wonder what % get tenure.
- Ultimatt 4y agoIn the UK its more like 10% fairly sure
- cortesoft 4y agoYeah, that was my thinking as well… academia is not growing that rapidly to support that many professors. Even if every professor only supervised two future professors, the entire world would already be professors at this point.