// SUBREDDIT_PROFILE
r/academia
› An online community for discussing issues related to academia, faculty life, research, and institutional structures. This is NOT the place to ask questions about your homework, your particular school or professors, or to get admission advice! Survey posts must be approved by mods in advance, must include contact/IRB info, and must be specific to academia.
// MEMBERS
111,308
› subscribers
// POSTS_INDEXED
894
› analyzed records
// COMMUNITY_AGE
17y
› since 2009-04-19
// STATUS
[ok] active
› feed indexed
// QUICK_ACTIONS
// Recent posts in r/academia
[ latest we indexed · by upvotes ]- 01 Does one need to have solved world hunger first to be competitive for a 1-year postdoc position? What is up with the academic job market? ↑ 47 · 2026-11-04
- 02 Is the current standard for young academics "unfair"? ↑ 43 · 2026-11-05
- 03 Title inflation on LinkedIn ↑ 4 · 2026-11-04
- 04 Advice for on-campus interview, ↑ 2 · 2026-11-04
- 05 Bummed because my contribution was left off the press release ↑ 2 · 2026-11-05
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// FAQ [ 3 entries ]
01 › What is r/academia about? [ expand ↓ ] [ collapse ↑ ]
r/academia is a Reddit community with 111,308 members. An online community for discussing issues related to academia, faculty life, research, and institutional structures. This is NOT the place to ask questions about your homework, your particular school or professors, or to get admission advice!
Survey posts must be approved by mods in advance, must include contact/IRB info, and must be specific to academia.
02 › How active is r/academia? [ expand ↓ ] [ collapse ↑ ]
r/academia has 111,308 subscribers and 894 posts in our index. It was created on 2009-04-19, 17 years ago.
03 › Which subreddits are similar to r/academia? [ expand ↓ ] [ collapse ↑ ]
Other Education & Science communities of a similar size include r/words (114,808 members), r/collegerant (113,477 members), r/batty (112,689 members), r/uwaterloo (112,652 members). Each is listed with its own subscriber and post counts in the related communities section above.