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What ratio of PhD graduates in STEM fields ultimately end up as (tenured) professors?
I recently saw this infogram circling around various social networks:
It appeared in this Tweet with the following claim:
Got a PhD? Your chance of becoming a Professor is 0.45%. Good luck.
Being ...
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How common is redundancy in the British (UK/Australia/NZ/Ireland) system?
The British permanent faculty system seems to differ from the US tenured system mainly in that in the former the management can 'fire' one on the basis of redundancy (What is the difference between ...
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What is the maximum age to get into academia, as a recent PhD / recent post-doc, in the US? [closed]
At what age does breaking into academia as a professor, e.g. recent PhD / recent post-doc, in the United States become effectively impossible?
Is it at the age of 30 or 40?
I keep hearing about ...
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