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emoanger90

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  1. Well, I have decided to go to FSU. Before and during my application, at least three professors in J School (2 of which works in my area) left. Where the school is heading to is unknown to me, and even the students there don't really know. Whereas FSU recently just hired two new faculty members who works in my area, there's a lot of growth and potential there. I think going to FSU is a safer choice.
  2. I got accepted to FSU, it's a low profile school but anyone can tell me something about that school?
  3. Also, my own advisor told me not to go to Missouri, the reason is that Missouri is a Journalism School, so they probably focus more on Journalism than communication studies. I personally visited the school myself. I do feel like more professors are doing research in public relations and advertising. The type of research is totally different from what I have done in my master (media psychology). Only one professor is still doing my line of research (her alma mater is the university that I did my master).
  4. I had a back ground in media psychology in my master program. This year I applied for several PhD communication programs, and got accepted to 5 programs. They are School of Journalism in University of Missouri, School of Communication in FSU, College of Communication in WSU, Department of Communication in UC Davis, and the School of media and communication in Texas Tech. The reason I applied these schools is because they all have or will have a psychophysiology lab in the schools. Personally I want to get lab training and set up a psychophyzz lab myself in the future. All these school has at least one professor that have that kind of expertise. Currently my choise come down to FSU and Missouri, I am very torn between these two. From what I know FSU has more professors whose research interest is in line with mine, which is entertainment and health communication research. They also have collaboration with Information School, and do Health Informatics, which is very appealing to me. But FSU is definitely not the highest ranked school among all the communication programs. Whereas the Journalism School in Missouri is absolutely world famous and will continue to be a high profile school in the future. Although they have one professor whose interest is similar to mine. Most faculty members are doing research that are different from my interest or my research framework. (They are a journalism school after all) But again it's not like they don't have professors that I want to work with. Should I go for FSU, where I can see myself doing more research that interests me. Or should I go to Missouri, where I probably have to adjust a little bit of my research interest. A lot of people told me School ranking is not very important when you are doing PhD, it is all about your own research, your publication and the professor you work with and your social networking. However, there are also people saying that the University you graduate from will probably haunt you for the rest of your life. Better school brings you better job opportunities. If the rank of FSU is just a little bit lower, I wouldn't worry too much. But Missouri and FSU are totally in different range on all the school ranking chart. Besides, I know that I am the number 1 pick this year in the Missouri program. The funding package I received from Missouri is way way much better than FSU.
  5. Hi,I've been admitted by IUB telecommunication M.A. program this fall, and I've decided to accept the admission. Is there anyone who will come to IUB Telecomm this fall? I'm from Shanghai, China. It'll be great to know my schoolmates in advance:)
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