Colaman

Thanks for all the responses. I received the admittance via phone call on February 20th. And I think they are still accepting students since the deadline has not passed yet.

I was accepted by U of Arizona and NCSU for PhD in chemical engineering and received full funding from both schools. My research interest is semiconductor processing or materials. U of Arizona: I know that U of Arizona has a long history in semiconductor research and semiconductor companies, especially intel, hires a lot of students from U of Arizona every year. But the department is relatively small and I heard that grad students over there tend to take longer to graduate (over 5 years) with few publications. NCSU: I think they have a better reputation/ranking for their engineering program and have a bigger department, but the department only has a few faculties who do semiconductor-related research. And according to the alumni profile from different research groups in both schools, NCSU seems to have fewer people who went into semiconductor industry after graduation compared to U of Arizona. Many alumni graduated from NCSU who did semiconductor research went for postdoc for some reasons. Any opinion/advice? Any insight into the PhD program in chemical engineering in both schools is also appreciated.