Once they're established, they can decide how many PhD students to take on. And a lot of foreign students who come on J-1 visas and are sponsored by their governments are not under that pressure. A lot of them will get a position in their home country with a lot less publishing pressure than in the US.

The professor can always set his terms, and it's up to a student to have him as an advisor. In both universities I attended, there were professors who were very fussy about how much research they did and how much money they brought in (could be 0), and if a student wanted them as an advisor, they needed to understand the risks involved.

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gus_massa 3 days ago | parent [-]

At some level, a metric is how many PhD students you have, so there is also pressure for that.

	▲	BeetleB 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		As a faculty member once told me: The primary lever the admin has is salary increases. If you're OK with your salary, then you can ignore it (a number of faculty members in my department at one university stopped doing any research once they got tenure). It's a lot less pressure than industry once you have tenure.