phd USA/EUROPE-which option?

[star888]

Hello,

I really want your advice because i am in a big dilemma.I am an environmental engineer with 2 masters in environmental and sanitary engineering.My interest is remediation of contaminated soils and groundwaters.Now i want to go on with a PhD in a related field with mine.My problem is that i cant choose from the followings choices.

1) phd offer with scholarship @ Rutgers in New Jersey-Environmental sciences..the phd has the title Human Exposure (computational-chemodymanics-bioinformatics research).
2) phd offers with scholarships from European Universities ( delft,dtu, technical university of dresden, technical university of Vienna) in my field-environmental/petroleum -remediation engineering.

so I'd like to make a good choice.I like the option of US and the field of health but because I want after my PhD to work in petroleum industry(environmental health/management or remediation), I dont know which of these options is better for this and which has the biggest future work opportunities.

thank you so much!

[Usmivka]

Where do you want to work when you graduate? If in Europe, a European degree will be OK. If in the US, the euro degrees won't be as well regarded as a qualification in and of itself, because of the differences between the structure and focus of a PhD in the two models.

Edited January 8, 2013 by Usmivka

[star888]

thank you for your reply! Actually my problem is which topic of these phds is the best as regards to find a work later! remadiation or human exposure? (I dont have problem to study europe or usa and i am interested in both these areas of expertise).