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

Inside Higher Ed

than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based Current tenure-track faculty members are up to 25 more times likely to have a parent with a Ph.D.

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Acumen: Indian students branching out from big four study destinations

The PIE News

Over 70% agreed engineering and IT, business, and health sciences dominate course choices among Indian students with nursing, humanities, and arts accounting for a moderate share of applicants. But major policy updates in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have left agents divided on the potential impact on students from India.