tag:blog.phds.org,2007:/2007/9/18/junior-faculty-satisfaction/comments Mephisto Noh-Varr 2007-09-18T20:02:23Z Geoff Davis tag:blog.phds.org,2007-09-18:796:798 2007-09-18T20:02:23Z 2007-09-18T20:02:23Z <p>I agree about non-monetary factors being quite important in career choices - if money were the primary consideration, I'd be at a hedge fund right now.</p> <p>If you look into the numbers in the original report, you'll see that the differences between public and private institutions are pretty small. Much more interesting to me are the university / college differences, which are a lot bigger than the public/private differences. Universities don't fare so well in a lot of areas.</p> <p>I spent most of my academic career at Dartmouth. Though technically it's a university (there are a few small graduate programs), it's probably a lot more like the colleges in the study population than the universities. The quality of life there was one of the primary reasons I chose it over university alternatives.</p> evan tag:blog.phds.org,2007-09-18:796:797 2007-09-18T18:54:44Z 2007-09-18T18:54:44Z <p>In the first paragraph, it says, "Early-career faculty at public institutions also expressed greater satisfaction than those at private institutions with work/life balance." That seems like a win for public institutions. I don't know about everyone else, but for me money was not the driving factor for my career choice.</p>