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mbakht · 03-24-2005, 08:46 AM

Hi everyone,

I have got admission to CS PhD program at UIUC and UT Austin. The financial offer from UIUC is $1724 per month. On the other hand, UT Austin has offered $1547 per month as TAship. My preferred field is networking and distributed systems - for which I have heard UIUC is better. But to be honest, I am not yet that determined about it - my mind might change after taking some grad courses. The one drawback that I have heard about UIUC is that - they are taking too many students in the PhD program and hence, the value of UIUC CS PhD is less than that of other similarly ranked programs (like Cornell).

I will really appreciate valuable opinion from TM-ians.

03-24-2005, 08:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
mbakht Eager! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 33	CS PhD : UIUC vs UT Austin Hi everyone, I have got admission to CS PhD program at UIUC and UT Austin. The financial offer from UIUC is $1724 per month. On the other hand, UT Austin has offered $1547 per month as TAship. My preferred field is networking and distributed systems - for which I have heard UIUC is better. But to be honest, I am not yet that determined about it - my mind might change after taking some grad courses. The one drawback that I have heard about UIUC is that - they are taking too many students in the PhD program and hence, the value of UIUC CS PhD is less than that of other similarly ranked programs (like Cornell). I will really appreciate valuable opinion from TM-ians.