Extended Data Table 4 Prestige ranks, hiring, and placement, in US academia

From: Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention

  1. The 100 most prestigious universities, as inferred from patterns in faculty hiring (n = 238,281 total faculty; see Methods) and shown in descending order. Columns shown the number of graduates (grads) of each university who become faculty (are placed, i.e. network out-degrees) at lower/higher prestige universities, and the number of faculty employed by each university (i.e. network in-degrees) who earned their degree from a lower/higher prestige university. University names are compressed to save space using common abbreviations; see Data Availability for complete machine-readable data.
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