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XSEDE Partners Among 18 Universities That Produce Half of U.S. and Canada's Computer Science Professors

Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Colorado, Boulder analyzed 16,316 assistant, associate, and full professors across 242 schools in the U.S. and Canada between 2011 and 2013 and found about 25 percent of the institutions accounted for about 75 percent of tenure-track faculty. The purpose was to create a ranking system of the most prestigious schools in each subject, based on how successful their graduates were in finding jobs in academia. The researchers found 18 universities produce 50 percent of Canadian and U.S. computer science professors. The top 10 computer science schools are Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Harvard, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Yale University, and the University of Washington. The study also found 82 percent of doctoral graduates are hired by less prestigious universities than the one they attended. To read further, please visit http://qz.com/343521/18-universities-produce-half-of-us-and-canadas-computer-science-professors/.

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