Not ohio
lol who would go to OU for a phd lol?
Ohio State v UT Austin v UNC v Northwestern for CP/IPE
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ut austin
big dept, tons of resources.
No way. Big department. Students get lost in it. No record of consistent placement. What even is a UT student?
UNC has some very smart people with a history of placements. Better methods training. And the socialization experience there will get you where you need to be.Depends if you're more on the CPE or IPE side... UT has a lot of IR faculty and relatively few IR students... a committee of Jensen, Wellhausen, Nielsen, Findley would be pretty strong
I have no idea why there's still this common conception that UNC is a strong phd program. Look at the placement report they have on their website from last year. Of the 298 students who entered the program since 1999: 61 have TT jobs, 77 left without phd, 49 still enrolled, remainder are non-TT or non-academic. IR numbers are even worse.The issue with Texas in the past was uncompetitive stipends and high TA loads. Think 14.5k a year with full TAing requiring. The IR faculty did, however, seem to care and wanted good students, but didn't have the resources to support them.
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ut austin
big dept, tons of resources.
No way. Big department. Students get lost in it. No record of consistent placement. What even is a UT student?
UNC has some very smart people with a history of placements. Better methods training. And the socialization experience there will get you where you need to be.
Depends if you're more on the CPE or IPE side... UT has a lot of IR faculty and relatively few IR students... a committee of Jensen, Wellhausen, Nielsen, Findley would be pretty strong
I have no idea why there's still this common conception that UNC is a strong phd program. Look at the placement report they have on their website from last year. Of the 298 students who entered the program since 1999: 61 have TT jobs, 77 left without phd, 49 still enrolled, remainder are non-TT or non-academic. IR numbers are even worse.
The issue with Texas in the past was uncompetitive stipends and high TA loads. Think 14.5k a year with full TAing requiring. The IR faculty did, however, seem to care and wanted good students, but didn't have the resources to support them.Aren’t the teaching load and stipend issues still there though?
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ut austin
big dept, tons of resources.
No way. Big department. Students get lost in it. No record of consistent placement. What even is a UT student?
UNC has some very smart people with a history of placements. Better methods training. And the socialization experience there will get you where you need to be.
Depends if you're more on the CPE or IPE side... UT has a lot of IR faculty and relatively few IR students... a committee of Jensen, Wellhausen, Nielsen, Findley would be pretty strong
I have no idea why there's still this common conception that UNC is a strong phd program. Look at the placement report they have on their website from last year. Of the 298 students who entered the program since 1999: 61 have TT jobs, 77 left without phd, 49 still enrolled, remainder are non-TT or non-academic. IR numbers are even worse.
The issue with Texas in the past was uncompetitive stipends and high TA loads. Think 14.5k a year with full TAing requiring. The IR faculty did, however, seem to care and wanted good students, but didn't have the resources to support them.Aren’t the teaching load and stipend issues still there though?
Last year they were offering short of 25k for 5 guaranteed years. UNC pay also sucks btw, but at least the place is cheap
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Is it too late to apply for law school? Seriously, I worry about your employment prospects coming out of any of these schools. If you’re OK with the risk, then go for it. But be aware that you may not wind up with a faculty job, especially if your demographic profile doesn’t help with diversification.
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"Is it too late to apply for law school? Seriously, I worry about your employment prospects coming out of any of these schools. If you’re OK with the risk, then go for it. But be aware that you may not wind up with a faculty job, especially if your demographic profile doesn’t help with diversification."
Also you can't anticipate how much more invested you might be by the end of a PhD program in getting a job and, if you do become invested, how painful, drawn out, and dehumanizing the process of failing to get a job will be.
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Last year they were offering short of 25k for 5 guaranteed years. UNC pay also sucks btw, but at least the place is cheap
OK. But rent in Austin has also nearly tripled in the last decade or so. So that's not really much of a material difference.
Oh, sure. I meant to say that it's probably better to take less at UNC.