A community snapshot of how students, researchers, postdocs, and faculty feel about academic life around the world. Explore the map, view overall trends, and add your anonymous response.
The live map will appear here. It will display aggregated anonymous responses and overall happiness patterns across regions.
Discover patterns in academic happiness across career stages, research fields, and countries through interactive charts and summaries.
View Data InsightsThe Academic Happiness Map collects anonymous responses about academic life from around the world. Visitors can share their career stage, field, and current happiness score.
Privacy: no names, email addresses, or institutions are collected. Results are shown only in aggregated form. Map coordinates are randomly shifted to protect privacy while preserving geographic patterns.
Scoring: responses are based on a simple numeric scale connected to emotional states, from unhappy to very happy, so the map can show broader patterns clearly.