<div>One of the biggest challenges facing young scientists today is the extreme competition for positions at researching universities and delayed (if at all) job security. In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their first date of enrollment. (<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/17723223">Economist</a>) Even more grim is the fact that only 12.8% of those PhD students actually end up as a tenured professor. (<cite class="ltx_cite" data-bib-text="@article{Larson_2013,
	doi = {10.1002/sres.2210},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sres.2210},
	year = 2013,
	month = {sep},
	publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
	volume = {31},
	number = {6},
	pages = {745--750},
	author = {Richard C. Larson and Navid Ghaffarzadegan and Yi Xue},
	title = { Too Many {PhD} Graduates or Too Few Academic Job Openings: The Basic Reproductive Number R 0 in Academia },
	journal = {Syst. Res.}
}" data-bib-key="Larson_2013" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://www.authorea.com/users/96042/articles/116673/_show_article#Larson_2013">Larson 2013</a></cite>) Out of every 1,000 science PhD grads, only around 45 of them end up a full-time professor at a research university.<br></div>