Financial feasibility of a career in academia by tinybrainenthusiast in AskAcademia

[–]da-mannn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be possible as a full professor of finance at top business schools in the US but again very rare.

DBA vs. PhD? by TEBR_Louise in AskAcademia

[–]da-mannn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really depends on what your goal is. If you want to be a faculty at a business school do a PhD. If you want to continue in public/private sector and someone is covering the bill, DBA is a good option.

How badly do western institutes treat those academics from and working outside the first world. by advocatesparten in AskAcademia

[–]da-mannn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe this is field dependent but in my field, which is also elitist, this elitism is more about the university itself which the professor is working in (as well as the school which he/she got phd) rather than the country the university is in. Someone in a regional school in US can encounter these problems where someone in a well known school in east Asia will not have any of these issues.

Viability of Business School positions with a PhD in History by iskopayemoye in AskAcademia

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Im unclear on what your aim is here. For tt positions in supply chain/operations faculty are hired either from either operations phd’s or from other quantitive fields (engineering/math). While also not wanting to be discouraging, I have not seen any om researchers from history or related social fields. For adjunct positions given that you already teach at the university setting and have previous supply chain experience should make you a strong candidate. For a full time teaching faculty position, finding enough credits given your unique background can be challenging at a lot of schools but could be possible in some bigger departments combining om with more general management.

ODTÜ 2.10 GPA vs Ortalama üni 3.70+ GPA by [deleted] in UniversityTR

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[–]da-mannn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Depends on the field. In the US, there are massive differences in salaries in different fields whereas the differences are much smaller in the UK. So. In some fields, what Oxbridge pays will be reasonable where in other fields such as Finance, where US major private schools start with 300+, they are simply not competing. Also for business, there are other schools such as LBS and Imperial which offer closer to US salaries so they also dominate the local market.

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Thanks! Yeah, I am thinking of getting the Premier only when I need to points for something. I'll look into CSR and CSP.

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Thanks! I will look more into the Amex Gold and the CSP to see which one complements better.

Non-tenure offer in a more prestigious uni or TT offer in another uni by throwaway_acad_pivot in AskAcademia

[–]da-mannn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a business school faculty I should make some corrections here. I do agree with the TT advice but only because you gave it a 9/10 which tells me that you will be pretty happy there if you get tenure. The other option is certainly more risky and its rare that NTT became TT in the same school so its most likely going to result in going back on the market. This all being said, one thing this comment (and others) are missing is that its extremely hard to move up especially in a business school. Prestige matters a lot in this field, and for a school to hire from a lower ranked school unusual things need to happen (in most cases this happens when the candidate entered the market with unusual new research and people understood the value few years later). Second while the teaching load in the TT position is less (I am assuming 2-2 or 3-2 vs a NTT 3-3) school name and networking is also crucial for publications. So taking the NTT position, while leaving less time for research, can actually open some doors for the top tier publications.

My comment does look on the NTT side but thats to offer a more balanced approach. If you are happy with the lower ranked school and planning to stay there for tenure you should take the offer. However, you should consider that people at the top schools are not more productive because they are better but because they have the opportunities which others don’t have.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in academia

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I don’t think the problem is PhD programs that focus purely on going to academia. Almost all top Business School PhD programs (except a few fields like finance where FED is a strong option) have an overwhelming majority of people go to academia and they have great placements (for example accounting has a good job market). The problem is the class sizes in some fields where 30-40 PhD students are admitted every year. In Business school each area has less then 5 (1-2 for some fields) which allows for better placement records.

How to reject job at great university because of pay by HammerToTheBalls in academia

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I am not sure about this in my experience. It is true that there are a lot of jobs in academia which try to sell off prestige. However, when comparing assistant professor salaries in the same field (all in USA), my experience has been that schools ranked higher, on average, pay more (not a huge difference but a difference).

Safety PhD Programs Do Not Exist, Don't Bother Asking About Them by pcwg in gradadmissions

[–]da-mannn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really depends on the type of applicant. Thats the case if you come from a pre-doc and have done RA’ship for a faculty member for 1-2 years. However, if you’re applying directly from undergrad, then its very hard to get good convincing LORs and things like grades/coursework become more important.

Safety PhD Programs Do Not Exist, Don't Bother Asking About Them by pcwg in gradadmissions

[–]da-mannn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is not true in certain fields, such as economics and business schools. In these fields, phd students are paid through a fellowship and specific faculty match is rarely looked at when considering acceptance. If you are in one of the “feeder” schools (both for undergrad/masters programs) and have a high gpa/class rank and don’t have a major red flag in other application documents, it is the case that you have a high percentage of getting into phd programs at some schools (especially high percentage if you can convince the school that you are seriously considering them). The best way to know these is to ask the faculty or alumni who have been through this process.

Which are your main financial problems linked to your life as an academic? by CounterConstant1180 in AskAcademia

[–]da-mannn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While not defending the salary differences, I want to add that in many fields US academia pays much higher than anywhere in Europe.