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- May 7, 2012
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What PhD's Want To Be When They Grow Up
by Nick Nelson in The Eternal Universe
Almost everyone who goes to grad school in physics does so thinking that they will one become a tenured professor at a large university. And anyone who has been around a physics graduate program for a while knows that for most of us that is simply not going to happen. A recent book by Paula Stephan entitled "How Economics Shapes Science" shows that 23% of physics PhD's hold tenure-track appointments 6 years after their PhD, which means that less than one-quarter of those that survive........ Read more »
Sauermann, H., & Roach, M. (2012) Science PhD Career Preferences: Levels, Changes, and Advisor Encouragement. PLoS ONE, 7(5). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036307
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