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Originally Posted by Lacrimosa2
nothing until now.
I applied to Mres/phd as the first choice and was rejected about one and a half month ago.
Seems like they review my package again which also takes the same period; 8 weeks. So I guess I'd get to know the result very soon........
But I cannot afford to attend LSE without any fund. If I can get tuition waiver and/or living expenses from any canadian schools, I'll choose one of them.
Of course I know LSE offers the best econ MA program in the world.
Canadian school with funding vs. LSE without funding
Whch one would you choose????
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Me the same: without funding LSE becomes impossible... "I know LSE offers the best econ MA program in the world". I don't think this is necessarily true. Of course most (if not all) people who have studied at LSE will tell that is the best program in the worldand I understand them ; if you pay almost 15,000 pounds for a masters then you HAVE TO convice yourself somehow that it worths its money, otherwise... Univ. of Toronto offers alongside its regular MA an in Econ "Doctoral Stream". I am posititve that the material covered in this MA is more advanced than the material covered in LSE EME. Moreover Toronto has in its Department of Economics more than 40 people with PhDs from the top 10 (if not top 5) US Econ PhDs and LSE surely cannot match this. University of British Columbia is pretty strong too and has more than 20 people with top 10 Econ PhDs.
Nevertheless LSE has biggest "reputation" and by many people is considered to be a "biger name" than those schools in Canada.
The choice between LSE EME and Canada with funding would be hard but I would choose Canada and one reason would be the shake of what eduaction is and for the shake that a "big school" should offer scholarhsips and tuition waivers to some students. (for God's shake they admit every year almost 150 students combined in LSE Econ and EME !!!! they can surely admit 10 more and give full scholarships to 10 people or partial tuition waiver to 20 !!!).