UCLA or UCSB (ECE track)

[lingerstarrrrr]

Hi guys, 

I want to hear your opinions.

I am right now a master student at UCLA, I have been working on my research in optics for nearly a year and will possibly transfer to PhD program.

Also I got admission from UCSB, photonics track.

I am really not sure which one to choose. UCSB has one of the best program in photonics in the world, but I am not really familiar with the topic. Life at UCSB should be cheaper and more relax than UCLA. On the other hand, I feel really awkward to tell my advisor that I would leave the group and I feel comfortable with my PI and my group members right now....

 

[DiscoTech]

3 hours ago, lingerstarrrrr said:

Hi guys, 

I want to hear your opinions.

I am right now a master student at UCLA, I have been working on my research in optics for nearly a year and will possibly transfer to PhD program.

Also I got admission from UCSB, photonics track.

I am really not sure which one to choose. UCSB has one of the best program in photonics in the world, but I am not really familiar with the topic. Life at UCSB should be cheaper and more relax than UCLA. On the other hand, I feel really awkward to tell my advisor that I would leave the group and I feel comfortable with my PI and my group members right now....

 

Doesn't your advisor know that you applied to UCSB? If you're doing research in optics, photonics shouldn't be foreign to you.