minkwoski

Academic jobs may depend on the school you attended but its not limited by that.....if you do a good PhD research that gets good recognition in your field and with good recommendations, you may land good academic jobs....I have seen great scientist who taught in ivy league colleges but did not even get PhD from top 100 schools in US....so if you research is distinguished then academic jobs may come knocking......also a distinguished PhD research will open good doors for Pos-doc positions in top schools and if you do vert well there you can land a good academic job...so dont think academic job solely depends on your grad school....your RESEARCH and your achievment in your field can take you up there..

I heard many schools are considering cutting funding like you stated...I applied for Phd admission in the ECE dept. at UMD and I am yet to get any reply from them..I pray they consider me....considering admission without fundig it could imply various meanings....but the school is always clear on what they mean....you can ask such students to past the exact words/statements as used by the school...that will clear all ambiguity ...As for mine...I am wondering whats happening...I am yet to get any feedback from UMD and several good schools I applied to...maybe I will have to wait till end of the month or probably in April ....Already got two offers but need to see the results of my other applications before I can make a well informed decision.