Timeline for PhD - Well known professor or well known school?
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| Jun 4, 2019 at 8:56 | comment | added | gented | @Buffy This is the answer that "we want to hear"...but is it the actual answer? As much as we want to think we are responsible for our own career, especially in Academia this is rarely the case. | |
| Jun 3, 2019 at 12:24 | comment | added | Buffy | @E.Rei, and a school with lots of faculty can also be a help. You will likely interact with more people than just your advisor. But you have to work at it rather than just assume it will happen. Go to conferences, write to people, ... | |
| Jun 3, 2019 at 12:19 | comment | added | E. Rei | +1 to this, although on 'make lots of professional contacts' a well-known professor is more likely to have more contacts to put you in contact with, making networking somewhat easier. Whether 'easier' is 'better' is subjective, as there is definitely something to be said for making your own contacts rather than building off existing relationships of your professor | |
| Jun 3, 2019 at 11:05 | history | answered | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |