MIT or Princeton for graduate theoretical Physics???

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<p>I am an international student. Have already been admitted with named fellowship to MIT as well as to Princeton with fellowship.
Which one is better for grad theoretical physics (specifically condensed matter Physics).
The rating difference is just 0.1 (MIT 5.0, Princeton 4.9)according to usnews ranking.
Looking forward to any recommendations!</p>

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<p>MIT. Seriously, MIT. Both programs are great so if we consider academic strength equal (although MIT gets edge in theoretical physics) MIT’s international rep is superior to Princeton’s.</p>

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<p>This should be a question for your academic adviser and profs. Or look at the MIT and Princeton faculty pages and see who’s doing research you would be interested in. Or contact those profs who’re doing research in what you’re interested in and talk to them. This is not a question to be answered by random people on an internet forum. Especially high school students.</p>

<p>Congrats btw.</p>

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<p>Dauntless9 is exactly correct.</p>

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<p>ask a couple of these guys… they’ll undoubtedly steer you in the direction appropriate to your interests.</p>

<p>[Yazdani</a> Group Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton University](<a href=“http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~yazdaniweb/People.html]Yazdani”>http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~yazdaniweb/People.html)</p>

<p>Or perhaps one of these guys:</p>

<p><a href=“http://electron.mit.edu/people.html[/url]”>http://electron.mit.edu/people.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thank you for the answers.
As I understand, MIT is more reputed in the US than Princeton?
What about Harvard Physics, is it less reputed than MIT’s one?</p>

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<p>Dauntless has it right. </p>

<p>If you’ve got a specific research interest, look at the programs at Princeton and MIT and Harvard in condensed matter. Talk to the professors. Talk to the current grad students. Find out how long it takes students working under those profs to finish, find out if they’re getting good job offers. Are there research openings in the groups, and is there money to pay for grad assistantships? Are these people you’d be happy working with, or are they evil incarnate?</p>