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What is the average salary of Assistant Professor in South Korea?
What is the average salary of Assistant Professor in South Korea? How tough it is for a foreign faculty member to get public and private sector funded projects for his/her lab?
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Dual Job by a Professor in Europe
I have seen many professor are working in a research institute and also a full-time professor at a University. How is it feasible? Are they involve in the dual job and getting a salary from a research ...
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Why are there some really young professors and other much older lecturers without professor status?
I was just wondering how this is possible, there are some 50+ year old people who are 'Dr. X Y', and others who are maybe "only" 40 years old , but they are 'Professor Dr. X Y'.
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How many years of industrial experience needed for a Mechatronics Professor?
I have a Bachelor's in EE and Master's in Automation and 3 years experience, including 2 in software development. For me, an academic career would be both more meaningful and professionally rewarding ...
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Percentage of tenure track positions promoted to full professors [duplicate]
I wonder if there are statistics on the overall percentage of people promoted from tenure track positions (assistant professor) to full professor in fields like mathematics and science (first-rate ...
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Math Adjunct Professor positions and salary in a big city
From searching online, I see that the salaries for math adjunct professors are about 36k. That's insanely low for New York City standards. An undergraduate business school student that graduates from ...
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Can I become a professor in a subject I did badly in?
I am a third year math undergraduate student. I am in Europe (Serbia) but would like to do a postgraduate degree in the USA. My freshman year went poorly, but after that I started to do a lot better. ...
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Professor ranking system
It is commonly accepted that professorship is the final rank of promotion in universities. I would like to study the possibility for promoting professors further. Is there any grading or ranking ...
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Does the NSA hire mathematics professors often for projects / contractual work / full-time work?
How often do math professors / math PhDs / postdocs, whose research directions are in abstract algebra and number theory, get hired by the NSA to do some work - either on a short-term contract or ...
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What are the salary bands specifically for lecturer/senior lecturer/reader/professor in the UK?
This question is related to this question Academic position salaries in the UK (and to some extent to this question too: Academic rank equivalence between the UK and the US systems), but my question ...
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What are some criteria to get an Australian PhD scholarship? [closed]
I want to apply for a PhD in Australia and I wrote a professor (who has an open position) with my CV. He was very positive in his mail and encouraged me to apply for that position. Now I want to know ...
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Combining Visiting Professor with TT
I currently work as a TT Assistant Professor in a very comfortable and welcoming top-100 university in my field. My wife lives in another country for the time being and I would like to spend more time ...
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My original plan was academia. I'm a grad student. I'm uncertain if I want to keep this is my end goal [closed]
I'm posting this here because I frankly am not sure where else to ask a question like this. If anyone has a better idea where this should go let me know.
I'm a third year American graduate student in ...
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Career path to professor with an engineering background in Germany [closed]
I am in the final year of my master in mechatronics engineering in Germany, and I want to work as a researcher or a professor in a university since i believe a professor/researcher has more freedom ...
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How much do you agree with Elon Musk statement that non one is going to read your publications? [closed]
I have seen a public video on youtube where Elon Musk gave his opinion about academic publications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA_2v0d9Gzs
He stated that most academic publications are pretty ...
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