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22% of Tenure-Track Professors Have a Parent With a Ph.D.

Inside Higher Ed

The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based based tenure-track faculty members across eight disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities. Morgan, a recent computer science Ph.D.

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China increases in QS rankings as India “soars”

The PIE News

Chinese institutions are continuing to improve in rankings, with eight new institutions included in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024, while the top 10 continues to be dominated by US and UK universities.

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A brief look at … Mexico

The PIE News

Mexico accounts for a major chunk of the top universities in Latin America. Some 64 Mexican universities are included in the 2024 QS Latin America University Rankings , which highlights the top 400 institutions. Brazil is the only other Latin American country claiming more.