>> 7.4% of professors have a Ph.D. from the same university that they are teaching at. MIT in particular has a high rate of self-hires, with 36% of their profes

>> 7.4% of professors have a Ph.D. from the same university that they are teaching at. MIT in particular has a high rate of self-hires, with 36% of their professors having MIT Ph.D.s themselves. When you believe you're the best, you are probably going to be biased to hiring internally... It's more likely that $RANDOM_UNIVERSITY wants to hire from MIT than the other way around.