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Hi everyone, I am studying Computer Science (focus Robotics & Artificial Intelligence) and will be doing a 6-month research fellowship in Deep Learning & Computer Vision in the summer of 2024. Now the question: Suppose you had acceptances from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford and Cambridge: Which of the universities would you choose & why? Or would you make it even more specific depending on the supervising prof/lab? I am especially interested in - Contacts to the industry - Prestige of the university for job applications in industry in US/UK/Switzerland/Germany - Prestige of the university for PhD applications (possibly to university or industry) - High research quality & prestige at top conferences e.g. CVPR In the long term or after the stay I would like to work in industry in USA/UK/Switzerland/Germany. Maybe, I would like to do a PhD in one of the 4 countries beforehand. The main focus of the future job should be research & development, but I am also not averse to management careers with trainee programs. Exciting industries for me are: - Tech (Google, Meta, Nvidia, ...) - Automotive (German OEMs and others with focus on autonomous driving) - Medicine (e.g. companies with focus on medical imaging, etc) - Finance (high frequency trading, possibly investment banking, venture capital, private equity, ...) I know there are a lot of rankings & forums online, but would really appreciate some insights from you guys here. Some of you may even have been at one of the universities, are now profs, department heads or recruiters and can assess the questions for other reasons. Thank you very much! PS: If other universities or research institutes are even more relevant for my mentioned goals, I am also happy to receive answers about them (e.g. NUS, NTU, ETH, TUM, University of Tuebingen, Max Planck Institute, research from companies a la Facebook AI, Disney Research, ...). #harvard #stanford #mit #industry #applications #tech #career
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In my experience Stanford > MIT >>> Harvard. The value of these schools is the people you meet. Only Stanford is in the center of the action.
I'd put Stanford first, then MIT, Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard last. Don't overthink it though. For research/PhD, the most important is your professor, not the school because 1) prestige is nice but your relationship with them is the most important so choose whoever you feel a connection with and 2) these are all great choices so you can't go wrong, just pick the one where they have a strong community of folks doing your intended specialty because it'd be easier. Also I picked Stanford first cause of the weather haha...When I was there, everybody from MIT,Harvard etc kept telling me how being in California just made them less grumpy. Also Boston's just too cold for me lol (at least for me). Final advice: forget all this stuff about prestige and focus on what you want to get out of your research because believe me the school will just be a line on your cv. The most important is your vision and what you delivered. Congrats on your fellowship and good luck with everything
Really comes down to your thesis and your very specific field of study, what you posted is far too vague. Find a topic you want to study, then find the best academics in that area, and apply to the department to do research with them.
Harvard for sure. I was in Harvard for 1 year and dropped out to start a company.
Have been in MIT and Harvard… not CS, but computational biology (MS and PhD). For fundamental research, Harvard>>> MIT=Stanford. For engineering, MIT=Stanford > Harvard. Don’t know about CS.
Stanford CS for sure
Stanford just being in Silicon Valley location is big plus
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