分享各商学院 PhD Programs 就业出路及相关方面的信息，欢迎讨论！

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jurawls 发表于 2020-1-10 07:04
还有比这更废的废话吗，能去top谁不愿意去啊

The benefits and advantages of attending a top or "quasi" top school can never be overstated.

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王大发开宝马 发表于 2020-1-8 22:36
这种问题自己去官网看看/写email问问在读phd/写email问一下phd program coordinator，都比在这里问lz强多 ...

非常感谢。祝你（宝）马到成功！

That's right, it is often necessary to obtain "insider information" about a program because what is posted on its website may not always be complete or accurate (it has been reported that this is commonly the case for non-top programs) .

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At this point, the application deadlines at top schools (encompassing Tier 1 and Tier 2) have, by and large, passed, and those at Tier 3 schools will pass soon. Best of luck to everyone!

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One posting just mentioned University of Georgia. The PhD Program at UG belongs to Tier 3 in our placement rankings and so is fairly good. It is rising visibly with increasing support in both funding and advising. Also, the idyllic setting of Athens is ideal for research. Wish everyone who has applied to this school good luck.

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刚才有帖子提到项目Fit，这是个非常好的问题，也非常重要，暂强调两点：

Research Interests: Top Schools, 即 Placement Rankings 中的 Tier 1和 Tier 2，Fit 问题基本上是不存在的，这一点已经说过，因为这类学校师资阵容强大，名人众多，研究领域广阔，作为学生你可以尽管选择自己最感兴趣的研究方向。Tier 3 学校，可能偶尔会有 Fit Issue，你最感兴趣的研究方向可能不在教授的研究范围之内，但一般情况下这不是大问题。

Funding：严格说这和Fit本身无关。我们已经多次强调，只要是正规的全日制项目都会提供资助，而且学校排名越高资助金额越丰厚。记得以前有帖子讨论有极其个别的项目没有资助 ，如果确实存在，需要极其谨慎。这种情况下，自己出钱是一方面，另一方面可能面临的情况是，你没有机会做Faculty RA or TA或合作，这很好理解，因为倒推一下，如果有这种机会就意味着你有RA/TA等资助。从这两方面分析，你可能面临“财学两空”的境遇。

最后，一句话，请大家尽最大可能去Tier 1, Tier 2 学校或至少是 Tier 3 读 PhD, 以确保有个好一点的出路，否则难以保证。

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One asked about the differences between research schools and teaching schools. These are considerable with respect to research intensity and rigor, teaching load (a respondent to her query mentioned this), compensation, etc., and have been discussed or touched upon in various previous postings.

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Hearty congratulations to the student who received an offer of acceptance into the PhD Program in Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance at Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin. This is the first offer reported in the forum thus far and will undoutedly be one of the best for the 2020 admissions cycle. WSB is a top business school, and its PhD program is in Tier Two overall in placements, making it on a par with the programs at University of Minnesota, Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Washington, among others.  

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Someone just dug out a posting on finance programs that was published in 2012, or more than seven years ago. The information provided is not accurate at points and also is quite outdated by now. We would like to briefly respond to one or two of the followup postings there regarding the following programs: Kansas University, Temple University, UTD, University of Tennessee, Drexel University, and Syracuse. In terms of placements, UTD, Kansas, and Temple are clearly the best among these (for details, see our Placement Rankings), and therefore are supposed to be the most competitive. For a more nuanced comparison, one needs to check out each of them, but UTD should be the strongest. Also note that each of them has risen rapidly in recent years. The program at University Tennessee is also outstanding (its alumni placement record is available online), but it is fairly small in size and does not seem to be known that well among the Chinese. Drexel and Syracuse are very similar with respect to placements although the latter does better (again, please refer to our Placements Rankings). Drexel has several illustrous finance professors (this has been discussed before); its PhD program is good but has difficulty in placing graduates even at what we call "balanced" schools, and the finance professors seem to be more and more aware of this. Syracuse is best known for Masters programs; its PhD program is small and has had several first-rate placements in the past but seems to be going downhill.

All of the above are non-top schools, so we cannot expect their placements to be "phenomenal". But if you are admitted to UTD, Temple, Kansas, or Tennessee and do really well, then you have a fair chance of hitting a research school (even one ranking above each of these); for Syracuse and Drexel, the chance may be significantly reduced unless you are a "star', but it may not be that difficult to get into a "balanced" school.

By the way, terminologically the word 'balanced" is often a euphemism for "teaching".

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One posting recommended UTD Top 100 as a major information source for applicants. This ranking has been severely criticized on several accounts. For example, it does not take per capita research productivity into consideration (this is unfair for small schools) nor include economics journals. The research ranking developed by Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, which is based on UTD Top 100, is claimed to be more accurate and reliable. For details, check out Leeds School of Business website.

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Tripleg 发表于 2020-2-12 21:52
One posting recommended UTD Top 100 as a major information source for applicants. This ranking has b ...

Another issue on UTD ranking is that top school accounting faculty members regularly publish in top 3 finance journals, but there is no way to measure that unless you combine productivity of accounting and finance together.