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What are the Requirements to Become a Professor?

As a professor, your duties fall into two main categories. Your primary responsibility is to train young minds in whatever subject you teach. You want to help create a nurturing yet challenging environment in which students can push the boundaries of their experiences and understanding. Using lectures, exams, papers, and research projects, your job is to push your students and make sure that they understand the fundamental building blocks of your specific discipline.

Your secondary duty involves extensive research in your field. Working with other professionals in academia, the private sector, and government, your goal is to make substantive contributions to your field via articles, publications, experiments, or books.

Requirements to Become a Professor

The requirements to become a professor vary considerably from state to state and school to school. At most research universities, for example, a doctorate degree is required. However, if you work at a technical or vocational school, then professional expertise in your field may be sufficient. And some programs that require PhDs for tenured positions sometimes accept master's degree holders as visiting professors or lecturers.

While the educational requirements do tend to vary, each successive year of schooling helps to open up more doors. By completing a doctorate in your field, you can more convincingly convey to potential employers that you are:
  • A certified expert in your field
  • A committed scholar
  • A potential source of revenue for the university through your research
  • A potential draw for prospective students
Working towards your doctorate is always a terrific way to explore what being a professor is actually like. Many universities require that doctoral candidates act as teaching assistants for undergraduate students. And when you are not in the classroom, you typically spend the bulk of your time conducting research for your thesis. So simply by attending a PhD program you can learn what intensive teaching and research actually entail.

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