citizenkanye

Oh, I just meant it wasn't the norm to go into industry.....I think I just used the wrong word. I think the word 'outliers' is a better way of describing what I'm getting at, I sincerely meant nothing by it.

My plan is to stay in academia. There's a pretty overwhelming tendency for students to postdoc at places Harvard, Brown, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, etc, with a handful of stragglers going into industry. Seems promising?

I'm strongly considering attending an interdisciplinary PhD program at a university but I've noticed a few nagging caveats that are holding me back from committing. The program is in a department which isn't generally rated very high (around 40-60 typically), but I'd likely end up doing my thesis in another department due to its interdisciplinary nature, which happens to be very highly rated (top 10 in the country). Regardless, the actually name that will be on my PhD will be that lower rated department. Which one of these ratings matter more? I think the lab I do my thesis should be more important than anything else, but I'm not sure how these things tend to play out in reality. Does anyone have any input to offer?