Most US professors are trained at same few elite universities
This is pretty much why I left physics, any worthwhile research career was over before it even started since I went to a lower-tier state university. Not saying that&#x27;s indicative of all fields considering the difficulty of physics and few number of faculty and lab positions available for such skillsets, but that was my experience.<p>I looked around at my professors in undergrad and virtually all had come from Ivies or other institutions of similar caliber.<p>At least software pays well.