<p>I'm international student and I earned the scholarship from my government.
Therefore, money is not a problem.</p>
<p>I want to get PhD in physics.
Which school is better ? Which school will help me going to grad school such as MIT,caltech. etc ?</p>
<p>help me please</p>
<p>Let me frame my remarks by saying that I am a physics professor at [Illinois</a> Institute of Technology](<a href=“http://www.iit.edu%5DIllinois”>http://www.iit.edu), which is an [Association</a> of Independent Technological Universities: AITU](<a href=“http://theaitu.org%5DAssociation”>http://theaitu.org) university. We have B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. programs in physics and our undergraduates are accepted form Ph.D. studies in physics at top 20 schools such as MIT, Cal Tech, UC Berkeley, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern, and Stanford. i also have a lot of experience in graduate admissions as I currently am Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions at Illinois Tech.</p>
<p>My opinion is that it does not matter too much as most physics programs are the same in the US. What is more important is whether the school you choose is a comfortable fit for you in terms of location (urban or not), size (while class sizes in physics, are never huge, a bigger school will have a lot of students in non-physics and introductory physics courses and the physics classes might be as large as 40 as opposed to my school, where the upper division physics classes are at most 20), and opportunities (which schools have research opportunities for an international student who cannot apply for the REU programs in the US).</p>
<p>In order to get into the graduate program of your choice, you will need to have good grades, strong test scores in the general and physics GRE, a significant research experience and strong letters of support from faculty who know you well. Schools which have an active research faculty and a Ph.D. program will probably be able to serve you better in this regard. The good GRE scores in the physics test will depend on how seriously you take your classwork and whether you push yourself to take additional upper division undergraduate or graduate courses.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>