JosephConrad

They have some tutoring opportunities - you get to work with an undergraduate one-on-one, but I've heard from friends who are at Oxford that the vast majority of students don't get to teach at all. I've seen DPhil-ed people on university faculty pages, but they do seem to be older 1970s to early 90s kind of people: I've heard that a lot of British students are just sitting around waiting for something to turn up after their DPhils. They don't seem to have much placement information on their website either, but will perhaps write and ask about it. Thanks!

I've managed to narrow down my choices to two graduate programmes: one is a top ten US school (but not an Ivy-league one), the other is Oxford. Both are fully-funded programmes, and that's making it really difficult to choose between the two. I'm an international student and I've heard that the job-market in the UK is awful, and even worse for international students because of very strict immigration laws. Further, I've aso heard that UK PhDs find it hard to get tenure-track positions in the US, where the job situation is only perhaps slightly better, because they're from a different system, have less or no teaching experience, etc etc. I really love the US university, which I visited recently, but Oxford is, well, Oxford! On the other hand, the prospect of being eternally unemployed isn't particularly heart-warming. Any thoughts on this, those of you who have been studying in the US?