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  1. Plenty of R1s can be found outside of the top 50 and some not even ranked. Plenty of R1s can be found outside of the top 50 and some not even ranked. And I would hope that anyone coming out of grad school, even from a place like Chicago, would be happy as hell to be offered a tenure track position at a place like GSU or Tennessee. Top 25 programs don't have enough openings every year to hire all the PhDs other top 25 programs produce. And if all this is true and schools in the bottom half of the popularity contest are hiring from all over, I think we've come to a conclusion in this thread: the prestigious programs benefit you on the market (obviously), but it's your own work that will make or break you. Also, I ate dinner with one of my mentors yesterday who headed a search for a tenure track position this year (in history) and she gave me a word of advice that may help some of the people reading these two threads on elitism in the programs. Every search there is a quality applicant from a high ranking school who walks into an interview with his or her nose up thinking they're doing the lesser ranked program a favor by being there. Princeton and Wisconsin don't entitle you to a job.
  2. The school is tennessee if you were wondering. The website hasn't been updated with some of the newest faculty, however. And just for the fun of it, I just pulled another program from the rankings randomly. Georgia state (both graduate degrees offered and around 30k students as well) does not have many faculty members from top 20 universities. Only two are from top 15 universities, one a 1977 phd from Chicago (so this doesn't even remotely factor into today's placement rates). I suppose we could randomly pull more middle of the line programs, but I'm not sure it's worth the time. I think this top 20 program or bust beief is a myth, perhaps created by the top 20 themselves. Of course the top 20 may rarely hire outside of themselves, but who in the hell cares? I'd be perfectly fine attending or teaching at a school not in the top 20.
  3. That's odd. I go to a R1 school with 30k students. Although they're not high in the rankings, they do offer a PhD and MA. So we're not even talking a small school with no grad program. Only three faculty members here went to top 30 schools for their Phd.
  4. Say there are only 2-3 schools in the top 40 that has faculty doing something similar to what I want to do? But 40-60 has 2-3 more. I should ignore those even if they tend to place their students? Take, for example, a place like UConn. I think they'd be a great fit, but they are ranked 52 or something like that. Keep in mind not everyone has the goal of teaching at at top 20 university.
  5. Hello everyone, I'm looking into programs for the next application cycle and I was wondering if anyone could help me out with some information from the guide. I know that my sociology department has a copy, but I'm not anywhere near my campus at the moment. I was wondering if anyone could look at the speciatlies section in the back and give me the list for the schools that specialize in globalization (or whatever the word is in this edition of the book), development, and political economy. Thanks for any help that you can give and I'm sorry if this isn't the correct place to post this--I'm new here! Thanks again
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