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From: Jim Cassell <cassell@frosty.irss.unc.edu>
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: getting into Ph.D. programs
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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Thomas F Brown wrote:

> A recent study (I've forgotten the exact citation) concluded
> that the most significant factor determining who gets hired
> to tenure track jobs is prestige of one's phd granting institution.
> The second factor was prestige of undergrad degree. Number of
> publications was a distant third. Nothing else was even
> statistically significant.

I think that would be:

Ste'phanie Baldi. 1995. Prestige determinants of first academic job for 
new sociology PH.D.s, 1985-1992. SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 36(4):777-789.

Jim
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