Professorships In Different Subjects

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The discussion centers on the difficulty of obtaining professorships across various academic fields, particularly comparing physics with other sciences and mathematics, including applied mathematics and computational science. It highlights that securing a tenure track position in the humanities is perceived as significantly more challenging than in physics, especially at smaller universities. Participants express interest in understanding the comparative difficulty of these academic paths and seek resources for further information on the topic.
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Prompted by the very interesting thread regarding grad school in physics I am interested to find out how difficult other subjects are to get a professorship in? Is physics one of the more difficult? How does it compare with other sciecnce? How about with mathematics? Particularly applied maths/computational science?

If you don't have the info any ideas on where it could be found?

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What about the liberal arts?
 
I have friends who are professors in the humanities.

By what they tell me, getting a humanities tenure track position at a small university in the humanities makes getting a physics tenure track position look like a walk in the park by comparison.
 

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