4/18/2012 11:10:59 AM

IEEE-USA - Today's Engineer: Computer Science PostDocs

IEEE-USA - Today's Engineer: Computer Science PostDocs

By all accounts, the number of computer science graduates who take postdoctoral fellowships — also known as PostDocs — is quite small: just a few hundred per year. But thanks to the extended poor economic outlook, PostDocs are on the rise in academic circles, while the number of full-time academic positions is on the decline. In fact, the number of PostDoc positions taken by computer science professionals in 2010 was almost three times the number from 2006, according to the annual Taulbee Survey conducted by the Computing Research Association (CRA). That same year, according to the CRA, the number of PostDocs hired was significantly higher than the number of people hired for full-time academic positions.

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