Recommendation for PhD School

[okramun]

Hello everyone

I am a master student at Georgia Tech, in Electrical Engineering. My major is Signal Processing.

I want to continue to PhD but change my field to a more creative/graphics side. I am a digital illustrator on the side.

There is also some geographical conditions for choosing phd school. I have made the following list, and would really appreciate some comments. It would be good if the school is in a nice city, not bad crime situation or middle of nowehere. 

Planning to apply to CS except for MIT, where it is Media Arts and Sciences. 

Thank you !

 

1) MIT (Media lab)

2) CMU 

3) Princeton

4) Columbia

5) NYU 

6) University of Pennyslavania 

7) Yale

8.) Maryland

9) Rutgers

10) Brown

11) Virginia Tech

12) Stony Brook 

 

I want to ideally choose 2 high ranked, 2 middlish and 2 safer ones

 

Edited November 2, 2019 by okramun