# How difficult is it to become a professor?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 22, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-become-a-professor/208802 "2003-10-22T00:51:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-become-a-professor/208802/21 "2003-10-23T16:30:13Z")

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Sorry, wasn’t thinking about the universities; I’m in the community college system.

[Here is that link.](http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/10/2003102201c.htm)

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