SunnyProoooooooooo Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) Hi guys, I am a senior undergraduate student right now and has received some offers. However, I feel hard to choose where to go. Yale has a good reputation in the world and the PhD candidates are free to choose research advisor during 1st year, but its EE ranking is relatively low. Moreover, it is said that it is unsafe there. My UCLA offer contains RA (~1900 dollars/month, lower than other three offers). Maybe it is not sufficient to cover the fee in LA, but its location is great. My research advisor is doing antenna and microwave. My research advisor at Gatech is doing communication systems and research advisor at UMD is doing wireless location and information theory. The research advisor at USC is nice and well-known. Do you have any suggestions or life experience to help me choose my offers? Thanks! Edited March 1, 2017 by Regina Zhang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscoTech Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 20 hours ago, SunnyProoooooooooo said: Hi guys, I am a senior undergraduate student right now and has received some offers. However, I feel hard to choose where to go. Yale has a good reputation in the world and the PhD candidates are free to choose research advisor during 1st year, but its EE ranking is relatively low. Moreover, it is said that it is unsafe there. My UCLA offer contains RA (~1900 dollars/month, lower than other three offers). Maybe it is not sufficient to cover the fee in LA, but its location is great. My research advisor is doing antenna and microwave. My research advisor at Gatech is doing communication systems and research advisor at UMD is doing wireless location and information theory. The research advisor at USC is nice and well-known. Do you have any suggestions or life experience to help me choose my offers? Thanks! I would just check to see where your professors place their students. I can answer As about photonics faculty at those schools, not comms/sig. proc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphyr Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 I think you are torn between choosing Gatech and UCLA as you will explore different areas during your PhD. Personally I believe microwave/antenna has a better work perspective after graduation , so I would choose UCLA. After all, it all depends on your preferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyProoooooooooo Posted March 5, 2017 Author Share Posted March 5, 2017 On 2017/3/2 at 7:25 AM, DiscoTech said: I would just check to see where your professors place their students. I can answer As about photonics faculty at those schools, not comms/sig. proc. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyProoooooooooo Posted March 5, 2017 Author Share Posted March 5, 2017 On 2017/3/4 at 4:16 AM, zaphyr said: I think you are torn between choosing Gatech and UCLA as you will explore different areas during your PhD. Personally I believe microwave/antenna has a better work perspective after graduation , so I would choose UCLA. After all, it all depends on your preferences. Hi, Thanks for your suggestion. Then how about Yale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphyr Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 30 minutes ago, SunnyProoooooooooo said: Hi, Thanks for your suggestion. Then how about Yale? Personally I won't choose Yale. Basically its reputation is not for its engineering degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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