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Credentials: UGPA 3.96 on 4.0 from an obscure university in Bangladesh. GRE V 167 Q 168 A 5, TOEFL 116 Dilemma between Boston College and Toulouse. Career goal: Research professor at university. Interest: Behavioral econ, but any applied micro will do I guess. Boston College: PhD. Full tuition plus $17,500 guaranteed stipend. Family in NC; girlfriend in TX. Not the strongest program. Toulouse: 2-yr Masters (English language program). Full tuition. Eiffel Scholarship worth euro 14,400 pa (I'm working under the assumption that I'm getting one. Please humor me here). Maybe racist. Don't speak an ounce of French. FRIGGIN' EUROPE! Barcelona, Paris, Rome, Berlin! Will allow me to trade up above BC eventually for PhD. I want to get this over with ASAP, so some quick help would be amazing.

I am currently considering about either go to BU or BC. I am interested in international economics and game theory. I notice that both programs are pretty good at game theory. They offer me the same amount of funding (BU offers 5k more for summer research.) I am interested in finding a job in the private sector after graduating from Ph.D program. I talked to professors and students from both programs, they are all pretty supportive and enthusiastic. I notice that there are a lot of commons between these two programs. Are there any suggestions or advice about these two programs? Thank you so much!

Hi guys, I've got offers from IUB and TI, but waitlist from BC. My primary interest is in econometrics, esp. financial econometrics. Let's make a comparison: (1) Academic strength: Based on ranking at Econphd-econometrics, TI is better then the rest, comprised of UvA (rank 15), EUR (rank 23), and VU (rank 54), while BC ranks 20, and IUB only ranks 119. link: http://econphd.econwiki.com/rank/reconm.htm. But this ranking is somewhat outdated. Based on IDEAS, the rankings are BC(ranks 28)>TI(ranks 45)>IUB(ranks 54). Taking the flyouts into consideration, I would consider like this: BC>TI>IUB. link:Untitled - Flyout ranking! And, just now, I noticed that in the ranking by Tilburg Economics Ranking (based on 2008-2012), UvA(rank 23)>IUB(rank 42)>BC(rank 61). Based on ranking for authors at IDEAS, TI has Siem Koopman (ranks 61), Herman van Dijk (ranks 99); BC has Arthur Lewbel (ranks 46), Zhijie Xiao (ranks 103), and Christopher F Baum (ranks 125); IUB has Joon Park (ranks 51). Well, let's forget ranking... (2) Location Let's say, U.S. is still the center of academia, you can get the connection of Yale, MIT, WB, IMF, FED, then the whole world...while at TI, it's only possible to get connection in London, ECB... (3) Personal My fiancee is going to MSF at Rochester, so a job is much more possible to expect at Boston, not any cities around Bloomington...So, forget all the above reasons. BC is my best choice!!! huh, what do you guys think?

Hi everyone, I've been accepted to Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and wait listed at Johns Hopkins, Boston College, Virginia, and Iowa. From what I hear, if I get off the wait list anywhere I'll have to make a decision pretty quickly; so I'm trying to find out more about all of these schools beforehand. Right now I'm interested in Micro, specifically game theory, but I can also see myself becoming interested in public economics and industrial organization. Does anyone out there have any opinions on any of these schools? Thanks!