A systematic exclusion induced by institutional ranking in engineering faculty hiring: Introducing a cycle of winners and losers.

ABSTRACT: This study empirically investigates exclusion induced by institutional ranking in engineering faculty hiring and introduces a cycle of winners and losers formed by privileging graduates of high-ranked institutions in the U.S. higher education system. We analyze and visualize academic origin (i.e., institutions faculty graduated from) and destination (i.e., institutions faculty are hired at) of 5,356 tenure-track faculty in four engineering disciplines of Chemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical at the top 20 and bottom 20 of the top 100 engineering institutions according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report. Our findings indicate that the hiring of engineering faculty in the U.S. higher education system is skewed in favor of graduates from high-ranked institutions, regardless of the dis

SUBMITTER: Ermagun A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9714811 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature