Timeline for Is it more difficult to score a Tenure Track position in the US when applying from outside?
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| Aug 26, 2016 at 17:57 | history | edited | Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 11, 2014 at 9:05 | vote | accept | xLeitix | ||
| Mar 4, 2014 at 20:01 | comment | added | socialsciencedoc | This might largely depend on the field, but in my field, if you did a PhD outside of a US university, you really do need a stellar record. Your application will be looked at with skepticism, and you need to demonstrate that your research will have an impact in the US, and that you do have a competitive record (if all your pubs are in regional journals that nobody in the US has heard of, for example, people won't take you seriously). Of course, schools hire outsiders, but this is quite rare and the European scholars I've seen in US universities are very very accomplished people. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 19:52 | history | edited | Piotr Migdal |
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| Mar 4, 2014 at 15:58 | answer | added | Leon palafox | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 14:08 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | @xLeitix You might be interested in F. Gargiulo and T. Carletti, Driving forces in researchers mobility (2013) (I've learnt about it during seminar John Dudley's seminar Surviving in Science: What They Don’t Tell You about Careers in Research!); they key message ways that you need to have great graduate school OR first postdoc. Though, I don't remember any US-specific details. (Anyway, ETHZ is certainly a place you can name-drop. ;)) BTW: looking forward to hearing about your analysis. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 13:15 | comment | added | JeffE | US universities do not hire people from outside the US/Canada on Tenure Tracks — This is simply false. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 12:12 | comment | added | xLeitix | @PiotrMigdal I am thinking about doing some semi-formal number crunching for my blog - basically, just going over some good schools and checking where the current assistant professors have graduated from and where they were immediately before they became professors. Will update the question here if I get around doing that. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 11:52 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | Great question! I've heard a similar statement a few times, and I am interested as well. I am curious if it can be answered with numbers (e.g. parsing CVs, though it can be hard to distinguish if professors at Ivy League graduated from it because it is so good, because of cultural fit, or because less-networked applicants (or from less prestigious universities) are looked down a bit (and even a bit may mean no tenure, is such a competitive game). | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 7:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/440753011389104128 | ||
| Mar 4, 2014 at 7:35 | answer | added | Suresh | timeline score: 29 | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 7:11 | history | asked | xLeitix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |