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Originally Posted by Brian
I guess it depends on what the intent is.
I don't think it's a good idea and is at odds with the purpose of a university.
You also tend to get a homogeneous faculty, again, at odds with the purpose of a university. My sister in law just started a graduate program at the zoo and out of curiosity, i checked out the department faculty pages. Every single faculty member did their undergraduate work there, and it was about 50/50 on going away to do graduate work before returning as faculty. Amusing.
One more reason I never went and would never encourage my daughter to go.
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This is very rare. What's the program? Maybe they have a lot of old faculty on tenure about to retire. The faculty quality level is improving quickly significantly over the last 20 years. Today you wouldn't have a chance to get hired as a professor at BYU with a PhD from BYU. It's become extremely competitive to get hired at BYU, and you'd need a degree at a top school and some success in research to get a sniff.