<p>Hey guys, now I’ve got three offers…
1st is University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, $22,000/yr. Major is neuroscience.
2nd is Temple University, Fellowship is nominated, major is pharmaceutics.
3rd is University of Tennessee Health Science Center, full financial support, major is biomedical sciences, And I think I can choose neuroscience after my first year…
I prefer neuroscience to pharmaceutics, thus I ignored Temple as my potential choice…
Now here is the dilemma,
OUHSC is located in OKC, while UTHSC is located in Memphis. Apparently, Memphis is better than OKC. Of course, if they give the same money, I’ll use less in OKC…
The ranking of UTHSC is higher than OUHSC, both generally or in major rankings.
I’m interested in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, OUHSC has some interactive relationship with OMRF, which has lots of many excellent scientists. In my field, Jordan Tang, is a good guy. Here is the URF…[Jordan</a> J.N. Tang, Ph.D.](<a href=“http://www.omrf.org/OMRF/Research/08/TangJ.asp]Jordan”>http://www.omrf.org/OMRF/Research/08/TangJ.asp)
But when I check his publications IF, I found that they are fluctuating between 3 to 4. No high IF publications.
But after I searched some faculy in UTHSC, some Assistant professors have high IF publications…
This really puzzles me…
Therefore, I hope you give me some advices…
OUHSC asked me to make a reply within two weeks… I am running out of my time…
Thank you so much!!!</p>
<p>Clarification question: are you entering a doctorate program at these schools?
If so, the individual you mention is an adjunct professor. Depending on the program, adjunct professors may or may not serve as dissertation mentors. </p>
<p>Have you emailed or discussed the research environment with graduate students already in the programs you list?</p>
<p>Wow you sure don’t have a lot of great options though if these places are a good fit then what could be more important than that. An asst professor with high impact factor articles is a great thing. At places like OUHSC and UTHSC, tenure track faculty are virtually guarenteed to get tenure so the risk of going with a young prof is not that bad. Furthermore, a rising star looking for tenure will be under a lot of pressure to publish rapidly so that is a good spot for a grad student. Faculty rank has less to do with quality and more to do with time as a professor.</p>
<p>I have heard that Memphis is a pretty crummy place and I can’t imagine Oklahoma being any better. However, if you felt a connection with the faculty and current grad students, then that is a very positive aspect that shouldn’t be ignored. Something you might want to consider about Temple is that it is located in a bioscience rich area and if it is anything like other bio rich areas, there will be fertile grounds for collaboration between schools. There may also be city wide poster presentations, seminars, journal clubs and other goodies that would allow you to benefit from the truly great universities that Philly has to offer.</p>
<p>All in all, if it were me, I would hold out for more offers. Sorry I can’t be of more help.</p>
<p>Yes, I contacted one student in neuroscience program in OUHSC… She said that OKC is a comfortable city to live in and OUHSC is rather good.
I am entering doctorate programs…</p>
<p>Thank you so much…
One of my classmates told me that Temple is called “Yale of poor people”… This means it’s really good in education. But you know, the security situation in Temple is bad…That’s the main reason why I turn to the other two…
I considered about rising stars… They will push students thus high IF publications will come out…
Tonight I will call Jordan Tang to see whether he could be my rotation mentor…</p>
<p>Yale of Poor People? I’m not sure I like that distinction considering I’m about as far from poor as possible. As far as our security goes, we have the fourth largest police force in Pennsylvania.</p>