Electrical Engineering PhD program: MIT vs. Stanford

[remi1]

Ignoring non-academic issues (such as climate, housing, scholarship/stipend, etc.), between MIT and Stanford, which school has a stronger (better) PhD program in the following areas of electrical engineering: photonics, materials, devices, nanotechnology (not circuits, control, bio-EE, or computer engineering)? Thanks. (Apologies for cross-posting.)

[pascal_barbots_wager]

Try talking to your rec-writers. Maybe people here have some idea, but when it comes down to it we're just random people on the internet.

[quarky]

Currently trying to make the same decision. From what I've gathered, Stanford is stronger in optics, MIT is stronger in devices/materials. Most electronic materials based research at Stanford seemed to be graphene/2D, while MIT offered a wider interpretation of what electronic materials could consist of.

[Komugi]

I would follow MIT to the edge of the universe.