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3.3.4The academic career track
By Eva Steenberghs (UGent) and Alain De Beuckelaer (UGent)
The largest share of starting professors in Flanders is internally recruited; among the individuals who started as a professor in 2017-2018 and 20118-2019, 54% had obtained the PhD at the same university. Only 20% had obtained the PhD at another Flemish university and 26% had obtained the PhD outside Flanders. However, the share of internally recruited professors has decreased over time: among the professors starting between 2001-2002 and 2004-2005 this was still 76%.
Due to the disproportional increase in the number of doctorate holders compared to the number of professorial positions and the (slow) internationalisation of the professorial staff in Flanders the possibility of holders of a Flemish PhD to obtain a professorship at a Flemish university is decreasing. Where it was 17.6% nine years after obtaining the PhD among the doctorate holders of 1997-1998 to 2001-2002, it was 15.2% among the doctorate holders of 2002-2003 to 2006-2007. Preliminary numbers of more recent cohorts indicate further decreasing promotion rates. Promotion rates differ largely by scientific cluster: they are higher in medical and social sciences and lower in agricultural and natural sciences.