The study presents results of a survey of business and economics faculty about job openings and tenure prospects in their departments, giving detailed data on the overall number of faculty, number of new position openings, nature of position openings, speed with which new openings are filled and the perceived odds of obtaining tenure.
Data is based on a survey of more than 180 scholars drawn from more than 100 major research university academic departments and MBA programs in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. Research findings are broken out by various criteria, such as type of university, MBA program or Grad/Undergrad business or economics program, scholar’s country, gender, political views, academic subject specialty, academic title and other criteria
Just a few of the 54-page report’s main findings are that:
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Male respondents were more likely to have tenure than were female respondents (57.14% vs. 39.58%)
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Tenure status varied by discipline and type of program. Respondents in Economics and Management were most likely to report having tenure, 66.67% and 61.75%, respectively.
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Respondents teaching in MBA programs reported poorer prospects for tenure than those teaching in undergraduate or PHD-academic programs in economics and other related subjects outside of MBA programs.
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Respondents from institutions in Quartile 1 of the US News and World Report rankings reported the highest mean number of position openings.
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Over half of those with the rank of Assistant Professor or Reader were on a tenure track (51.72%), while 20.69% had tenure, 13.79% were not on a tenure track, and 3.45% were adjuncts/part-timers
Scholars from the following MBA programs and departments of business studies and economics/finance in the following higher education institutions participated in the survey:
Alliance Manchester Business School
Arizona State University
Australian National University
Baylor University
Boston University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Cambridge Judge Business School
Carleton University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia Business School
Cornell University
Curtin University
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
Duke University
Emory University
Fox School of Business, Dept of Accounting
Goizueta Business School
Griffith University
Henley Business School
Imperial College London
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, IUPUI
Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins University
Kelley School of Business
Le Moyne College
Leeds University Business School
Lehigh University
London Business School
Manchester Business School
Massey University
McMaster University
Merage School of Business, U of California Irvine
Michigan State University
Monash University
Northeastern University
Northwestern Uni