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A new study has found that just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the U.S. awarded the doctoral degrees for 80% of tenure-track faculty employed at major U.S. universities, and a mere five schools trained one of every eight of these faculty.
Most tenure-track academics in the US earned their PhDs at a small group of elite universities—raising questions about the role of perceived university prestige in hiring decisions.
Larremore has been recognized by Popular Science as an early-career scientist and engineer bringing computation and math together to help real-world problems, from infectious diseases to social inequities.
A new study found that faculty hiring at doctoral institutions is steeped in prestige, and so excludes many scholars and ideas.
Researcher hope that universities see this as a wake-up call