It’s not obvious to me that this reflects anything special about this particular model for a university. Instead, I think it reflects the utter horrow-show that is the academic job market and, to some extent, the terrible matching in the rest of the job market as well.
Individual job postings at “regular” mid-tier universities attract hundreds of applicants, many of whom are extremely qualified.
Individual job postings at “regular” mid-tier universities attract hundreds of applicants, many of whom are extremely qualified.
But if this is an order of magnitude more job inquiries than average, might that not reflect something different about the model? Maybe something as banal as "it attracted a lot of attention", but surely a 5x or 10x difference is indicative of something.
They’re presumably hiring for multiple jobs though, which knocks that number right back down.
I’ve heard of individual tenure-track jobs attracting 750 full applications. Low hundreds is probably more typical, depending on the school, year, and field (and 2020-1 has been absolutely bonkers), but it still wouldn’t take many to get to 3k total. This is especially true if counting informal “inquiries” rather than a complete application, which often involves quite a bit of customized writing (research plans, teaching statement, etc).
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It’s not obvious to me that this reflects anything special about this particular model for a university. Instead, I think it reflects the utter horrow-show that is the academic job market and, to some extent, the terrible matching in the rest of the job market as well.
Individual job postings at “regular” mid-tier universities attract hundreds of applicants, many of whom are extremely qualified.
But if this is an order of magnitude more job inquiries than average, might that not reflect something different about the model? Maybe something as banal as "it attracted a lot of attention", but surely a 5x or 10x difference is indicative of something.
They’re presumably hiring for multiple jobs though, which knocks that number right back down.
I’ve heard of individual tenure-track jobs attracting 750 full applications. Low hundreds is probably more typical, depending on the school, year, and field (and 2020-1 has been absolutely bonkers), but it still wouldn’t take many to get to 3k total. This is especially true if counting informal “inquiries” rather than a complete application, which often involves quite a bit of customized writing (research plans, teaching statement, etc).