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This is a PhD offer for Applied Mathematics. Students can get a PhD in computer science, physics or applied mathematics. http://compbio-dresden.de Some years ago Times Higher Education Supplement rankings of non-university research institutions (based on international peer review by academics) placed the Max Planck Society as No.1 in the world for science research, and No.3 in technology research (behind AT&T corporationand the Argone Natioal Laboratory in the United States). Meanwhile it has become more stronger than weaker, so it's probably choosy and picky but not finicking.

Belgium, Dresden, Grenoble, Sweden The institutions provide access to world-class infrastructure for nanotechnology research and development as well as opportunities for graduating students to continue their studies with the PhD. The permanent link between education and research ensures a contemporary programme at the cutting edge of state-of-the-art research. There is a scholarship available up to 1,000 € per month. http://www.emm-nano.org For those in favor of a fix domicile there is a master's program nanoelectronic systems at TU Dresden.

I think nobody here can equitably answer your questions but Switzerland is the world's most competitive country in the world http://www.weforum.org/news/persisting-divides-global-competitiveness-switzerland-singapore-and-finland-top-competitiveness and ETH Zurich has been among Europe's very top universities with the widest appeal to international students. The country is also specially leading in physics and material sciences. But Switzerland is not the USA and ETH is not MIT. (Somebody easily forgets how big the USA are, and how much more intense the competition is (you actually pay 20k for attending an unbelievable twitter sect university on a beautiful campus in Ohio, where urban dictionary is used as reference for papers), and as you invest actually everybody wants go to the best schools and there is an almost clear hierarchy for admissions, Rockefeller yes, MIT no. Some hierarchy like this can hardly be found elsewhere, not even in the UK and especially not in physics. Everybody has his strong points, some more, some less. European universities, even ETH Zürich, are low weight compared to the MIT, that's why they join forces with for example the German Max Planck Society and they find the God particle before the MIT does. It's not stupid at all but different (a bit less selective). As you already have the midwest charm and east coast style you can add the experience of ETH Zürich. After your PhD apply at the Max Planck Society in Dresden, Germany or at Global Foundries in Dresden Germany. As you are based in New York City this would be the IDEAL path for a truly great career at Global Foundries in New York later on. They are going to invest more than 10 billion to New York City development centers and fabs. Ultimately, a ship in a bottle raises more questions than it answers.

The Erasmus Mundus Programme in Flood Risk Management: Global Change, Hydroinformatics and Planning (FLOODRisk) focuses on integrated flood risk management. 24 Months annually Locations: Delft (the Netherlands), Dresden (Germany), Barcelona (Spain) and Ljubljana (Slovenia) Degree: Successful candidates receive MSc degrees from TU Dresden, UNESCO-IHE and UPC, Barcelona. I have nothing to do with the program but it popped into my mind when I read Earth Sciences. The Erasmus Mundus Programme in Flood Risk Management is offered by a consortium consisting of UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (the Netherlands) Technical University of Dresden (Germany) Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). The associated members include European hydraulics laboratories, namely, DHI (Denmark), Deltares (the Netherlands) and HR Wallingford (UK), and key national organisations responsible for flood management, including Rijkswaterstaat (the Netherlands), ICHARM (Japan) and three organizations from Bangladesh. These partners bring their specific complementary expertise in flood risk management to the programme. Applicants from the following English speaking countries and countries where English is used in higher education are exempt for an English test: Australia, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon (English-speaking region), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda (English-speaking region), South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Two Letters of Recommendation (not older than six months either by two university teachers or by one university teacher and by one employer, or by internationally recognised scientist(s))

Have you ever thought about committing to Frankfurt ? Probably not, however, the New York Times was there and has found it to be a place where, besides English, Russian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Lithuanian and Czech are spoken a lot. It also contains an article about east-Germany's recently crowned "elite university" and what it exactly means. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/university-life-in-the-former-east-germany/ If you're the captain of a ship in a bottle, I wonder if you're also the captain of the bottle. Russia.

Hello, obviously you have the choice. Congratulations. This excellence cluster thing really means something. It was awarded by international independent experts. (I don't know how big it is in Würzburg) Würzburg is a smaller city heavily destroyed in world war two, of course rebuilt, and situated next to economical heavy weights in German economy. (Frankfurt, Munich, more) The university is surely in Germany's Top 25 (or as the UK call it Russell group) but doesn't pop up into mind first when thinking of Germany's best universities. Which is the mistake somebody can make. The excellence means it has partners who can guarantee the quality which is superior over normal German university life. For example enterprises or non-university research organizations. I know of life-science teams in Dresden which are led by renowned professors from Cambridge and CalTech. It takes place in non-university research labs closely cooperating with the university. You would not find such people from abroad and from such world-famous institutions all too often in normal average faculties, more precisely not at all. Charité hospital of HU and FU Berlin just has some more of such capacities. It is the biggest hospital in Europe. Right now Germany is more an immigration country than the USA which still have the image to be singular in that respect. About the openness, might be true, might be totally wrong, it depends much. Good luck. (whereever) PS commensurableness: PhD 5 years at a Top-ranked US-university is singular (in the world) but in Germany excelling candidates can gain a similar status, with further academic work after their bit shorter and less elitist PhD.

PhD programs at non-university research institutions (in cooperation with the local universities) are usually extremely competitive, especially at Max Planck Society, but they are all humans and you can try, it depends on so many factors, you already have the most important key-feature, you know your preferred specialization, though, often it comes totally different in the end, you know. ;-) I have never heard of a student who got accept and ran into financial trouble. http://nano.tu-dresd...biodresden.html http://nano.tu-dresd...ges/joinus.html http://www.cpfs.mpg.de http://www.imprs-dynamics.mpg.de http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de http://www.ifw-dresden.de https://mns.ifn.et.t...es/default.aspx http://www.dresden-c...ce/members.html greets from your neighbors.

In Germany and without much knowledge I dare to say also in the US the picture is a plus, it's an extra info, however important, probably not much. It's today's Zeitgeist (according to my dictionary this German word is also known in English language) to be non-dicriminatory (race, gender) and to not even care about how somebody looks like, if he, she is a rocker or a bombshell and what kind of. This is the official politics in political debates and PR statements of big companies and the true belief of some left wing activists. But speaking as a personnel decision maker not publishing any photos of himself I can say that I appreciate photos and not any politician or HR "scientists" will change this, ever. I am aware of the bias risks with photos and I weight this as I myself want to. The photo itself is almost never deciding, rather the lack of it. Well, a Google PR employee maybe cannot tell the truth. In the USA it is much more important which company and university you attend and there could be clean white and clean black universities with self-accelerating effects making it worse. Still I think you should add the photo, no matter how you look like. With a suit, looking good, not annoying, unobtrusive and receptive. I don't think that the no-photo policy is really sustainable though I understand the idea.

Affect, I like it.

From the German perspective I can say there is some good demand for US-Americans speaking good German, but the most striking affect is taken by other qualifications combined with the language skills. For example, when it is about engineering, some understanding of technology is way more important for every translating than the sophisticated vocabulary. Translating is not so well paid, also not in very professional spheres, teaching could be similar, because of low entrance barriers for less qualified competitors. It's not the right job for expensive metropolitan areas. In the UK there is very high demand for German as an extra-qualification and probably also more for teachers than in the US. These are only my laymen thoughts.

While the prestigious US universities are a league of their own, also in Germany studies and research are done on a highly competitive level. It often takes place in non-university public research institutions and is not represented much, or at all, in the Shanghai Ranking and such. Also, the ratio of Nobel Prize winners is a bit lower, but given. Here some local institutes which you have probably never have heard of. The living quality in Dresden between Prague and Berlin is very high, in terms of higher culture, diversity of city quarters, villa apartment pricing and landscapes as Saxon Switzerland or smaller vineyards. More known for its small old-town center the city also has a lot of upscale living quarters with reasonable or affordable living costs, the city area is rather large but has a good tram network, there is no subway. http://www.ifw-dresden.de (solid state and materials research) Center for Advancing Electronics at TU Dresden university and connected non-university institutes which publish with their own name (Fraunhofer, Helmholtz) Reconfigurable Nanowire Electronics Nanowire Biosensor Devices Modeling and Design of Carbon-Based Transistors Carbon-Based Circuit Technology DNA Chemistry Chemical Information Processing Systems Heterogeneous System-Software Verifications Microkernel-Based Systems Architecture for Heterogeneous Systems Orchestration of Resilience Mechanisms Bio-Inspired Information Processing Organic Devices, Organic Materials, Processor Design, Compiler Construction and Adaptive Networks bioengineering, bioinformatics, biophysics: Dresden's Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology http://www.imprs-mcbb.de Dresden is Europe's hotspot of micro-electronics, the cluster is even larger than that near Grenoble, France.

Thanks for this information. Really sad to hear that. Now even universities of applied sciences can give the degree and they do that. So you really need the habil. to make a difference. Srsly, thanks for dating me up. -------------- outdated: Non-European PhDs In Germany Find Use Of 'Doktor' Verboten http://www.washingto...31304353_2.html They all hold doctoral degrees from elite universities back home ... D. Baer, a spokesman for the ministry, said officials planned to drop (/the) cases. "We spoke with the parties involved and determined they had no criminal intent," he said. "They were given instructions as to how they can refer to their titles," by citing the degree but not calling themselves doctors. Another American investigated by police is an astrophysicist with a doctorate from Caltech and membership in the German Academy of Sciences. -------------- To the very best of my knowledge somebody can of course only wear a title exactly as given (, PhD or Dr.) while it is possible to interchange which will need an approval. (when not obtained from the 199 US research universities)

It comes from the (German) reality. Real labour world, not forums or student fantasies, not what universities or official vacancy notices tell. I just replied because he asked about a PhD obtained in Germany. I can only point out that the PhD system is new to Germany and the PhD might be appreciated at companies as BASF or in the university where exactly it was obtained but it has less value 100 kilometres away and much less outside those special worlds. In contrast a Dr.-title is striking. Every hotel and every ragtag and bobtail respects a Dr. It is not allowed in Germany to call yourselves a Dr. (in front of name), but you can request to have your US-PhD changed into the academic Dr.-title which will work without problems when it is obtained at a renowned US university. (US top 20, after some approval also with others) Some PhD graduates (US Top 5 !!!) were sued with dramatic consequences to them, it's not regarded as peccadillo or anything close to. Just recently it all got very easy with top 20 PhDs. Probably such dramatic punishments would not exactly occur again, but I would not try. In most subjects it is really not easy to have the chance to "promote" (how it is called to obtain the Dr.-title) while it is relatively easy to get into (any) PhD program and bring it to a successful end. A Dr. - title (obtained at any university) is really distinguishing while with PhDs it very much depends where it is obtained. This system is still very new to Germany and it will take decades to work as in the US. For only academic value-added the highest academic rank in Germany is Dr. habil. (As it is common practice in most countries you will have to explain your regional title on your business cards (including most of all where it was obtained) whenever you are in another country or in another economic zone. The US research universities are an exception because many of them are known worldwide and as best (still different, no matter how appreciated and leading they are). In contrast whoever cannot study medicines in Germany, not even in Austria, still can do it (in German) in Hungary. He then must write "(university of Budapest)", but indeed he can later work as physician back home in Germany. This Hungarian faculty has more or less specialized on German students. Over the three decades its reputation has become proper up to decent but still the "university of Budapest" is needed on every doorbell and a little handicap, it used to be more a handicap in the past, still it is no plus)

Yes At the moment we still have a real boom, lowest unemployment ever. Of course we are export-dependent much. It can be over soon. These rather detailed rankings compare only German, Swiss, Dutch and Austrian universities. http://ranking.zeit.de/che2012/en/ I really didn't know the new results. it's pure luck that the university which I wanted to make known a bit to potential abroad students, is now already number 1 in overall study situation among these in some highly demanded subjects. Good luck.

May I interfere though I do not know much about Ivy league schools ? I attended OSU for 9 months which was rather the same level as in Germany, as foreigners we had some extra-rights, so it was easy. In my (Germany based) opinion it matters in the US which university you attend more than here, much more, and even here people make a difference, when they cannot decide. Prestigious (public) schools (here) are for example known for harder exams than no-names. I don't know how this is in the US but ... For the master the kind of university/department is certainly more important than for the bachelor. No matter what is easier to get in. If I was your potential employer I would think, oh, he has improved, he is a winner and mordent. I love a girl from Ohio university (not Ohio State university). They are excellent, truly excellent in networking compared to us here, but the academic niveau is below everything. At least they know how to deal with social media, but it's not a life-long quality qualification as on a school with higher scientific prestige. We say: Many ways lead to Rome. My German school became an "elite university" recently (which means it's one of 11 in the country with the best future concepts and some excellent clusters). People who have not studied at all regard me differently since that day. But they don't decide. Decision makers will respect every higher university.

Is it really a PhD program (PhD after name) or a Promotion to obtain the Dr. - title in front of the name ? The Dr. - title has much more value but it depends on the subject. It has the highest value in law and engineering where it separates top-earners from moderate or low earners. For example when I search for a patent attorney candidate in chemistry I don't take applicants without the promotion or only in very special cases. In many subjects the title cannot be overestimated. It still has a high prestige on German doorbells. It is easy to obtain the degree in biology and medicine. In biology it is needed to get a job at all, in medicines the studies are long also without promotion and you get it easily and quickly then. In social sciences, politics, psychology it has not that high value but every landlord will prefer you in cities where small flats are over-demanded (Munich) and many bank clerks will estimate you richer, even if it is not that true. It's also valuable on the marriage market.

German universities are sometimes but rarely research castles. They are highly underfunded compared to the US. According to those questionable rankings Germany is a development country when it is about masters in combustion engines. It makes more sense to study the whole scientific circle in a region and they turn out much stronger. I can imagine that TU Delft is less anonymous than RWTH Aachen. RWTH Aachen, TU Munich, TU Dresden and KIT Karlsruhe are recommended as first choice in case you decide for Germany. I don't know Delft but I guess they are very keen to satisfy you and very good. http://www.dresden-concept.de

For those still interested, I can only say that national employers rank the national TU Dresden informatics graduates the 8th best in the country. Tendentially this east German magic is the most dynamic university meaning it improves constinously in rankings, it get's more known. Recently it was awarded as one of 11 German so called universities of excellence, all kinds of national media even call it 11 elite universities, which also means signigicant extra funding and even important reputation. The university aims to enter the Top 100 in the Times Highes Higher Education Ranking which is very good for a German university. Such nobel prize and similar things rankings are not very applicable for German universities and I think also that there is a slight underestimation of east-German universities in such international rankings. The oldest university of Europe (Prague in my way of counting years) does not enter the Top 300 there. Still I think alone to be this legendary university in beautiful Prague should almost be enough for Top 200. Many interesting smart people, maybe not elite but still smart. There is not everything logical in details for universities not in the Top 100, in some cases the order is definitively wrong or at least outdated, I don't want to say explicit names, but some German universties are also slightly overrated because they had nobel prizes many, many decades ago. Dresden did not get a nobel prize for the TV invention by Manfred von Ardenne in Berlin but still this is tradition, if this counts. Elsewhere he also invented the Russian nuclear bomb together with others and hydrogen bomb plus 600 patents, alone such single example makes many places for a non-Harvard or CalTech. TU Dresden is in the sure Top 10, mostly Top 5 in German engineering, sometimes number 1, or often, because many things you won't find elsewhere exactly so, because it appplies more patents than every other German university and it has a singular absolute number of regional non-university semipublic true elite research partners (associations as Helmholtz, Max Planck society, Fraunhofer, Leibniz society) which settle freely in Germany and have decided for Dresden but do not always publish with that name TU Dresden in their own legal form cooperating with many universities . Universities are primarly for teaching, not for research only. The city hosts the biggest cluster of micro-electronics in Europe. Thus it has a high percentage of citizens employed in tech and hightech sectors. Semicon Europe also takes place there, for reason they moved from even Stuttgart to Dresden. The tourist and culture feeling matters if you wanna attract the best. When US-Americans who have seen everything, really all of them, say that the city is overwhelming, then they might overstate, but at least they all say so, first mission fulfilled.

A PhD, if it is not from a superior or even top ranked US university, is regarded as significantly less than a Dr.-Ing. in Germany, and a master about the same as a Diplom-Ingenieur. German employers and other Europeans but also many in the US know the Shanghai and Times Higher Edu Ranking but do not care about, because it does not make much sense and in Germany all higher universties have rather the same level except in some international excellent clusters in very few subjects. Especially the highly globalized US brand universities accumulate much in-house research power which cannot be compared to the higher education systems of other countries. The US system plus Cambridge, Oxford might be the best in the world but in cannot be compared with such rankings based on the number of nobel prize winners and citations in few anglo-saxon magazines which sometimes nobody cares about in Germany. Sometimes these rankings turn the national ranking upside down. It might make much more sense to compare the MIT and CalTech. The order in Germany is as follows: For (modern) "mechanics" Aachen, TU Munich, TU Dresden, KIT Karlsruhe, TU Darmstadt, Uni Stuttgart are most recommended (after top ranked US). The niveau differences between certain universties are much higher in the US than in Germany. order of degrees: bachelor (FH or Uni, TU) master (TU, Uni over FH) = Diplom (TU, Uni over FH, FH means Fachhochschule, university of applied sciences) PhD mediocre US university Dr. Dr. -ing. habil. = PhD on a top ranked elite university, is allowed to give PhDs and may teach everywhere without further testing Prof. is no academic title but a profession title, regularly teaching, has often Dr. habil. which is the highest academic title, ing. means engineer German public elite institutions are post-master some research societies and associations as Max Planck, Leibniz, Helmholtz and Fraunhofer institutes. (a bit like the NASA but smaller and in other subjects, they hire globally and since recently sometimes cooperate closer with some universities) Best universities in engineering are moderately funded themselves. The most demanded are RWTH Aachen, TU Dresden, TU Munich, KIT Karslruhe, also LMU Munich, TU Darmstadt, and other as Uni Stuttgart, TU Freiberg, TU Illmenau, TU Kaiserslautern and others, there is no strong hierarchy, Aachen, TU Dresden and Munich also have official elite status since recentely but it only means a very good future concept, a very good international graduate school or more than one and a cluster of international excellence or more than one, for Dresden this is for example the case in organic and molecular electronics and biophysic. Dresden is relatively known for advanced nano electronics and physics, at least in central Europe, it's the biggest cluster there in Europe of the micro-electronics industries and among the top 5 worldwide. Heidelberg ist well known for pharmacy, it always depends much on the subject. There are many national and international networks. MIT has very high number of internationally excellent subjects, while Cambridge UK is rather known to have a very outstanding niveau in just all subjects which they offer, but not so many worldwide number 1 subjects and realms as Stanford or MIT. I have not any reason to get a complex just when somebody has studied at the MIT (actually I used to know a social media hyper active idiot with a bachelor), as French and Indian universities, just for example, are much more selective and challenging. They have a significantly lower budget though. The best European engineering universities are in Zurich, Copenhagen and Holland, and Cambridge, UK, of course. Ohio State University is one of our partner universities, besides Boston, Austin and Havard Medical School. We need a bachelor and a motivation application, but then they actually pay us (well) to study there in Columbus. Even though it's our twin city I dare to say the city is truly ugly compared to Dresden. You should study in Dresden if you can. :-) The more you know the more you dare ! While the annual budget of German universities is something like 0.6 billion euros a year, thus much lower than of the top ranked in the US and UK. In Germany often knowledge of German is necessary. (Those who come (few from the US) have no problem with it, in the elite clusters as some kind of biophysics English is the course language and also in many more subjects). It is said that the UK- (sure) and I think also the US (not sure) labour market are very keen for all kind of engineering graduates who speak German. I think it's not the German itself. But when you have done it in reality you cannot be the most passive one and many firms have (potential) German clients, all speak some English, but it is almost always some barrier. When you were abroad you are much more interesting in private life for all kinds of listeners.