<p>I've got into Georgia Tech and Rice for PhD in ECE, focus is on DSP. Rice gives me better financial package but takes on average 6-7 years to finish the PhD, whereas Gatech takes the usual 5 yrs but pays less. Which would be better for DSP, considering a life in academia after PhD?</p>
<p>Georgia Tech doesn’t offer Early Childhood Education.</p>
<p>First its electrical and computer engineering gadad. And I really think Ga tech is better, but then again I am biased. For more information you should go to the Grad or the engineering forums for more information.</p>
<p>Both great schools. But this is a very odd question for someone going into a PhD program…it’s more like the questions you get from HS students looking at undergraduate programs. For PhD work, I would assume you’d be far more concerned with aligning your research objectives with specific professors and research contract opportunities than you’d be worried about the name of the school itself.</p>
<p>As far as research goes, I’ve talked to professors (working in the same sub-field that I am interested in) and both are very reputed and are good people to work with as well. In fact, they are almost equal in overall offerings/reputation with the ECE community, so I’m having a hard time choosing…</p>
<p>something’s wrong here… 6-7 years to finish an engineering phd?! You don’t have college degree?</p>