Cristian Estan has posted a comprehensive study of where faculty in top-10 CS faculty get their degrees, significantly expanding and refining the chart than John Iacono and I threw together. Christian's study includes a chart that excludes full professors, which may give a better picture of recent activity. Most notably, Cristian's scripts and raw data are available, so you can split up the data in other ways if you like. Well done!
One of my colleagues at UIUC broke the news to me about a month ago:
Your table is famous! I was up at UW-Madison giving a talk, and the moment I mentioned the table and your name, everyone was laughing.
Heh. Yeah. Great.
From one of Cristan's charts:
Alumni with the title of assisstant professor or associate professor are considered recent.
Don't fret it Ernie, at least you know how to spell assistant.
Posted by: | May 18, 2005 at 11:22 AM
I ran a quick and dirty eigenvalue analysis on the data. From this it follows that the best places to graduate from are: Berkeley (hands down #1), MIT (#2), and then Stanford at #3.
The best faculty recruiting departments (i.e. those who land the most % of faculty from the top graduating places) are: Princeton, Washington, Caltech, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, MIT, in that order.
Note that the big four (Stanford, CMU, Berkeley and MIT) are more willing to dab outside the top 11 for hires as compared to Princeton, UWash, and Caltech. This explains their "lower" hiring score.
On the other hand, since they are uniformly considered the top four departments in the country it seems that part and parcel of a good hiring strategy is the ability to reach outside the top schools for the exceptional candidate.
For the top four, about 25% of their faculty comes from schools not in top 11. Among the top 11 schools, the extremes are UWash, which hires 93% (!!) of their AA faculty from other top 11 schools, while at the other end of the scale Wisconsin hired 55% of their faculty from other top 11 departments.
Posted by: | May 22, 2005 at 12:32 PM