<p>I just got offers from Harvard and Stanford(Physics-PhD) and do not know how to choose between them.I do not want to find employment in academic.I would prefer a job in industry or in business?Can you guys offer me some suggestions?</p>
<p>Talk to your adviser or profs in your physics department. Visit the schools in question. Possibly contact profs at these schools you might be interested in working for. Look at the research in their departments and see if they do what type of research you’d want to do. </p>
<p>Do not ask random strangers on the internet for advice, who on this forum will likely be high school students. At the very least, ask this question on the grad school forum part of this website.</p>
<p>congrats!
physics at both schools is great. there is no wrong answer here.
for phd, choose a professor to work with.
genberally, stanford for the weather and campus beauty.
harvard for all the rest.
i’d go for harvard.</p>
<p>Stanford is an amazing school, but Harvard is the pinnacle.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can go wrong. Weather or location? Stanford has better weather, but Harvard has a cooler location (Cambridge).</p>
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<p>It would probably be better to ask professionals in industry and business this question. However, Harvard has the most potent brand name in the Western hemisphere. I don’t know why anyone would advise against accepting the opportunity to go there, unless they were a Stanford graduate.</p>
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The queston should go back to the OP who got in both and has no clue about the two schools, even the street people know that Harvard is better.</p>
<p>If you would prefer a job in industry or business, I would tend to prefer Stanford, since you are near Silicon Valley.</p>
<p>Neither of these schools would be admitting you if they knew you weren’t interested in academia but simply wanted to go back into industry. There is a reason they provide full tuition, and a living stipend, in which to get your PhD. </p>
<p>I don’t believe for a minute this ■■■■■ was admitted to any such school. First, you do not write like someone at that level. Second, someone at this level would be choosing a particular school based on their research specialty, and well aware of the best research placement for their particular research needs long before acceptances. They surely would not be posting on a public forum to ask highschool students about it (reflecting some odd general knowledge based on ‘prestige’ from USNWR, lol). Finally, the level of ignorance on multiple fronts would have shown up in the application and unlikely to have gotten you admitted in the first place.</p>
<p>Has either school sent out their RD acceptances yet? I think I smell a ■■■■■…</p>
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<p>^Read the post before being accusatory. The OP is a PhD candidate.</p>
<p>You don’t choose a school for Ph.D. work, you choose an advisor/committee chair.</p>