Bangalore: The job of a professor is considered to be the most respected one throughout the world, moreover the professors are also privileged with various facilities bestowed to them, especially by the public sector; however if you are willing to become a professor in the near future then you must definitely know which are the countries that have the highest paid university professors. To make your queries easy, the study conducted by Boston College Center for International Higher Education and the Laboratory for Institutional Analysis from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow demonstrates, the countries having the highest paid university professors based on the public university salaries, reports the Universities News. 

In the study, the dollar value of full time salaries was adjusted to the cost of living in 28 countries around the world to let a true evaluation of the value of the pay. The researchers noted that in adjusted dollars, Canada emerged to be at the top, as the country’s full time professors earn $7,196 per month compared to United States and United Kingdom, where the professors earn $6,054 per month and $5,943 per month respectively. Listed below are the details of the countries that have the highest paid university professors, according to the study report.

1. Canada: As we have already highlighted in the second paragraph of the article that Canada ranks first amongst 28 other nations in the world that were surveyed to find which countries treasures the highest paid university professors. This suggests that the most prestigious University of Toronto, with the highest campus pay cheques, in this beautiful country draped with maple leaves, might have the highest paid professors of all other universities in the nation. “Canadian professors work hard, they’re productive and they’re one of the reasons our universities are relatively well ranked,” said Education Professor Glen Jones of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the U of T and part of the Canadian team of researchers on the study. The other prestigious universities of Canada are University of British Columbia and University of Victoria.