Perhaps the first things to consider are the expected time to complete the PhD., and the success rate.
Everyone says it's about five years. That's BS. It varies widely. At a university with which I was familiar, physics was one of the worst, with average time around 10 years. My department wasn't so high, but the success rate was in the single digits. The longer it takes, the greater the chance of life events derailing you.
As far as I know, there's no place to get this information.
And an incomplete ABD from Stanford or Berkeley is likely to have some value.
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Perhaps the first things to consider are the expected time to complete the PhD., and the success rate.
Everyone says it's about five years. That's BS. It varies widely. At a university with which I was familiar, physics was one of the worst, with average time around 10 years. My department wasn't so high, but the success rate was in the single digits. The longer it takes, the greater the chance of life events derailing you.
As far as I know, there's no place to get this information.
And an incomplete ABD from Stanford or Berkeley is likely to have some value.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/education/03education.htm...