Shocking Salaries of Highest Paid Professors in World

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Tuesday — January 10, 2017

By:Study Abroad

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You must know America is the top ranked country for Higher Education. Well, if you don’t, don’t worry and read Best Countries for Higher Education and their Ranks. One who educates makes education? So, it is safe to assume that American education standard is on account of teachers. America has best professors of the world who are the leaders of their respective in education and research.

I also want to be a professor thus I once was wondering, how much a professor is paid. When researched about it, answer came as quite a shock to me. Now I know why America is best in education that is because they admire their teachers and show their gratitude in the form of good salary. Everyone must know about their respected teachers henceforth here I am sharing the 10 highest paid professor in world and their salary and they are all in USA.

10 - Graeme Rankine:

Monthly Salary: $493,000 (5 crore 16 lac 54 thousand 6 hundred PKR)

Graeme Rankine is Associate Professor of Accounting and Academic Director of the LG Electronics Executive MBA (Korea) Program, at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is the 10^th highest paid professor in America. He is one of the leading models in his field and safe to say the highest paid. He has many published research papers (click the link to see them). Here is link to Sir Graeme Rankine’s LinkedIn profile. Professor Rankine is actually form Australia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

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9 - Steven Weinberg:

Monthly Salary: $536,000 (5 crore 36 Lac PKR)

Dr. Weinberg is a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has published more than 300 scholarly articles and written 10 books. His achievement don’t even start here because he was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. He is currently Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin. I must say he earned the title of being called the highest paid professor. He did research in a variety of topics of particle physics, such as the high energy behavior of quantum field theory, symmetry breaking, pion scattering, infrared photons and quantum gravity

8 - Andrew Inkpen:

Monthly Salary: $566,000 (5 crore 66 lac 6 thousand PKR)

Dr. Andrew Inkpen is 58 years old and 8^th highest paid professor in world. He is currently J. Kenneth and Jeannette Seward Chair in Global Strategy & Professor of Management at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He has been an Academic Director on programs for various firms, including ExxonMobil, CEMEX, Ericsson, Teleflex, Volvo Penta, DENSO, and Cisco Systems. As you must have guessed by Dr. with his name, he is also a Ph.D. Click the link to see official Thunderbird Profile of Dr. Inkpen.

7 - Kannan Ramaswamy:

Monthly Salary: $700,000 (7 crore PKR)

Kannan Ramaswamy, Ph.D., is the William D. Hacker Chair Professor of Management in the Department of Global Business at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is an Indian who is now a U.S. citizen. Dr. Ramaswamy earned a Ph.D. in strategic management from Virginia Tech, an MBA from the University of Madras in India, and a BS in physics from the University of Madras. Dr. Ramaswamy has consulted for several U.S. and European multinationals. Other than all consultancy, he is the 7^th highest paid professor of world with 7 crore Pakistani rupees monthly. Here you can see his LinkedIn Profile. Here is official Thunderbird Profile of Dr. Ramaswamy.

6 - Andrew M. Isaacs:

Monthly Salary: $709,000 (7 crore 9 lac PKR)

Andrew M. Isaacs is Director of New Management of Technology Programs, Director of the Mayfield Fellows Program, and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In addition, is Adjunct Professor of Business and Engineering at the University of California Berkeley where he gets a huge sum of monthly salary that makes him 6^th highest paid professor. He doesn’t have a Ph.D. yet there is no shortage of work for him. He received his MS Geochemistry and BS Cum Laude Geochemistry from University of Michigan. Here is Faculty Biography from UC Berkeley of M. Isaacs.

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5 - Dan J. Laughhunn:

Monthly Salary: $1.03 million (10 crore 3 lac PKR)

Very well known for his research in the field of Decision Sciences, Dan J. Laughhunn is Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Dr. Dan received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Illinois. He has published many paper, here is some of his research work. Here is his Duke University Profile.

4 - William E. Fruhan, Jr.:

Monthly Salary: $1.19 million (10 crore 19 lac PKR)

4^th highest paid teacher William E. Fruhan is the professor of Harvard University. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University. He has directed 15 different private corporations. Here is official Harvard Profile of Dr. William.

3 - Dean Takahashi:

Monthly Salary: $2.6 million (20 crore 6 lac PKR)

Dean Takahashi is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Practice of Finance at Yale University. Yale is one of the top universities of world. With his teaching, he is also Senior Director of Investments at Yale. Yale University has made him 3^rd highest paid professor of the entire world. Dr. Takahashi received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale too. He has also served the US Department of Treasury.

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2 - Zev Rosenwaks:

Monthly Salary: $3.3 million (30 crore 3 lac PKR)

Dr. Zev Rosenwaks received his Doctor of Medicine from the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn in 1972. Zev Rosenwaks is currently Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cornell University where he is paid monthly salary that is even more than total revenue of many universities making him 2^nd highest paid professor in world. Here is more of Dr. Zev’s Biography.

1 - David N. Silvers:

Monthly Salary: $4.33 million (40 crore 33 lac PKR)

World’s highest paid teacher, Dr. David N. Silvers, is the Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University Medical Center. He received his Doctor of Medicine in 1968 from Duke University. Here is his official Columbian Biography. There was even a Nobel prize winner in the list and yet he is the highest paid professor. In New York Times, they debated about these teachers saying they even earn lots more than any president.