It's an ill-informed take of someone who is not TT/tenured.
Well, UIUC placed someone at Columbia last year, how about the others?It makes no sense to judge a place by its best placement. More important is what was the median placement? Or even the 25th percentile placement?
If the median placement is not a TT-AP academic placement, then the school should not have a PhD program.So literally just MIT and maybe Harvard should have PhD programs?
That’s a spicy take