EE PhD: UCLA vs Gatech vs Yale vs UMD vs USC

[SunnyProoooooooooo]

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

[DiscoTech]

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.

[zaphyr]

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. 

[SunnyProoooooooooo]

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.

[SunnyProoooooooooo]

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?

[zaphyr]

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.