Too Few University Jobs for America's Scientists

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/16/343539024/too-few-university-jobs-for-americas-young-scientists

by plessthanpt05 • 12 years ago

6 3 12 years ago

mherdeg• 12 years ago

Heartbreakingly, the NPR story says "There actually are jobs – in industry, consulting, government and [other fields]", with [other fields] a hyperlink to http://www.whatcanyoubewithaphd.net/contact/ , which shows up as a Sedo parked domain to me (a page full of ads and devoid of content).

Quizz• 12 years ago

LOL the irony

PhantomGremlin• 12 years ago

Doesn't the same situation also apply for most humanities PhDs? Here's a very quick Google result[1]:

   Getting a literature Ph.D. will turn you into
   an emotional trainwreck, not a professor.
   ...
   I deeply regret going to graduate school
   ...
   I now realize graduate school was a terrible idea
   because the full-time, tenure-track literature
   professorship is extinct.

That's just one anecdote. But, fundamentally, the payoff for a PhD just doesn't seem to be there any more. Too few tenure track jobs, too many non-tenured adjunct professors. So why does tuition keep rising, why are there so many administrators employed by universities? Why are grad students being misled about the prospects?

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/04/there_...

Too Few University Jobs for America's Scientists

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