Confused Mechanical MS/PhD International Student

ssboss
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:57:08 +0000

hello and thank you so much for your reply. I was studying in UC Davis for exchange so I have been wanting to go back there fore my postgraduate.

What you are telling me seems to be what I have been hearing people say about UCM, and believe me I totally appreciate a good supervisor that has time to spend on you. In fact, I like my supervisor alot and would have gone over right away, but there’s just one thing that is stopping me if anything, that is:

will you stand a lower chance than other graduates from top schools to secure a good job in the R&D industries with a degree from UCM? and when I say this, I mean everything aside, for example consider your quality of thesis is as good as others, everything else is on the same par, only difference is your degree is from UCM, rather than MIT Harvard Stanford etc?

This has been the reason that kept me thinking over and over again. Also the other thing if I can ask you is, what do you think the possibility of UCM giving me a MS degree after I complete the requirement, although I am admitted as a PhD student? I am exploring my every option now, and leaving UCM to some other top schools for my PhD after MS in UCM is frankly in my consideration too. Would you say this is possible, or they simply would not give me the degree, because they want me to do PhD at UCM, so in other words, if I go now, it will either be I am binded to get my PhD from UCM, or I leave UCM with nothing and start over again at other school?

If you can give me your opinion on my 2 questions I would appreciate alot! Thanks so much for your time!