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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Small highly ranked universities [/quote]

[b]Yes. Where professors teach everything[/b][/quote]

Because they have to since they were unable to get employment with a National University. Not intended as a knock against teachers, but the real experts in each field are at National Universities, not at small schools.[/quote]

Sometimes.  Sometimes absolutely not.  Employment in higher ed is much more random than you might think.  And it doesn't take extraordinary depth and long years of research to teach a great intro course.  It takes time, planning, effort, and the desire to connect with students.  You don't need to be a top researcher or even a completed PhD to accomplish that.

- College prof[/quote]

When you graduate with your PhD, there are usually only a small handful of tenure-track positions open up in your field at the time.  The very top candidates are the ones who get those--just getting a professorship at all is extremely competitive.  It's really more luck which openings happen to be there when you are on your job search.  Most people do post-docs/visiting prof assignments before getting one.  After you're on the tenure track, if you don't want to be moving all over the country repeatedly, rebuilding your lab, you 'bloom where you are planted' rather than seeking prestige.  
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