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How can I evaluate whether a school has developed a poor reputation?
I'm a father trying to help my son understand his college options.
My son is looking at a liberal arts school in the United States that used to be quite competitive. From the college statistics web ...
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How important is institution prestige at the postdoc level?
I once heard a piece of advice from an established researcher in my field: even if you don't want to stay there permanently, choose your first tenure-track institution wisely, since you won't be able ...
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Reputation of university versus quality of work for research assistantship
I have a couple of offers for my bachelors thesis in computer science (machine learning, to be precise). The options are such that one is interesting work at a not-so-well-known institute (in my home ...
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Are very small departments necessarily sub-par?
This college, which I will not name here, specializes in computer-related programs, which makes its other courses, like political science, unpopular among student applicants. In one instance, the ...
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Bad signs in a department for PhD
Is it a bad sign in a department if most of those who do their thesis in that department also did their undergraduate studies there and most of those who get their PhD there either
are employed in ...
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Are academic indicators (h-index, impact factor, etc) really adopted by institutions? Currently used? And how?
Academic indicators (h-index, impact factor, modified h-indexes, etc) have a long string of criticism by academics and not (see here, here or here).
Instead of debating (endlessly) on how "not ...
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