Effect of going to Canadian school on future job prospects?
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:50 pm
I'm pretty sure that I'd like to continue in academia after graduate school (i.e. do a post doc or two and then get a faculty position). I hope to one day have a faculty position at a major research institution. But I also want to consider the idea that I may just seek a "real job" somewhere in industry after grad school. Given that, how much would going outside the US for grad school affect my future career prospects? Specifically, I'm weighing two US schools and then one Canadian school ranked slightly higher(of course rankings must be taken with a grain of salt). BUT I'm worried that even though the Canadian school is ranked (slightly) higher than the other two, because it's outside the US it may not be as well-respected or well-known as the US schools when it comes time to get my next job (in the US) (and especially so for jobs in industry... post docs will presumably be in the same field and therefore will be more familiar with the caliber of the people you worked with).
Obviously there are many many other important things to consider at each school (advisers, departmental culture, funding, geographic location, etc etc etc), but I'm trying to get a better handle on this one part of the equation...
Thoughts?
Obviously there are many many other important things to consider at each school (advisers, departmental culture, funding, geographic location, etc etc etc), but I'm trying to get a better handle on this one part of the equation...
Thoughts?