Timeline for University rank/stature - How much does it affect one's career post-Ph.D?
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| Feb 4, 2017 at 23:18 | comment | added | BrianH | I realize this has been around a long time, but I have a few references to back up at least where a degree was obtained appears to effect long-term career placement within academia: advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005.short And as it relates to funding, institution appears to matter as well: pnas.org/content/112/48/14760.abstract | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 17:49 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | @eykanal The answer in the for 'as it is' is IMHO fine and it is very good that you provided it. Just if there is any supporting data (even soft, e.g. a journal article or a blog post by a company owner) it may reinforce it. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 15:12 | comment | added | eykanal | @OldTroll - I completely agree with you, and I think that for this SE this will be a real problem. I'm bringing this discussion to Meta... please chime in there! | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 14:45 | comment | added | OldTroll | I suspect that this sort of answer will represent a problem for this SE. This isn't a factual answer, it's an opinion, and more to the point, the opinion may vary wildly from region to region and specialty to specialty. I think that we'll need some way to flag answers and questions as being more opinion based and less fact based than what might otherwise be acceptable. On other SE sites you can flag a question because it's not actually a question, but here the problem is reversed, there is a question, but the answer isn't the answer, it's an answer. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 12:51 | comment | added | eykanal | @PiotrMigdal - I'm not certain what type of references you'd like. While it's possible someone has done research on this topic, it's likely to vary from region to region (e.g., Asians place more weight on the University ranking than do Americans) and from subfield to subfield (e.g., publications may weight more heavily when applying to be an Intel researcher as opposed to a financial analyst). There's no definitive source I'm aware of. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 12:06 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | eykanal, your answer sounds sensible. However, (by any chance) could you back it with any references? | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 11:51 | history | answered | eykanal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |