University of Chicago mourns loss of PhD student Yiran Fan | University of Chicago News
As much as I’d like to go to the best university that I can get into, this incident has made me wonder if the safety of a city should be part of my utility function when deciding where to go. I’m not too sure if these incidents have now become normalized for Americans and so they don’t pay much attention to them, but to me it’s shocking that something like this can happen right outside a university that’s apparently one of the best in the world.
Which other dangerous cities like Chicago should us international students be avoiding completely when deciding where to go for our PhDs?