University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) vs Texas A&M University (TAMU): ECE

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi All,</p>

<p>I have received following admissions for Fall 2014:
1. University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) for MS/PhD in ECE department. No financial aid.
I mailed the graduate department and got to know that I will be supposed to find fellowships and advisor in my first semester. Further, depending on circumstances, I can always change my admission from PhD to MS and vice versa.</p>

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<li>Texas A&M University (TAMU) for MS. No financial aid. Can change to PhD depending on financial aid and advisor.</li>
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<p>My area of interest is (1) microelectronics and computer architecture and (2) Nano-electronics and fabrication.</p>

<p>I am international student, so fee structure would be 47000$ per year for UCSB and 34000$ per year for TAMU.</p>

<p>Please suggest me which university should I consider for above field of area considering financial situation, job opportunities and research potential given considerable "extra" amount that I will have to pay for UCSB.</p>

<p>Waiting for your responses... any suggestions and replies would be really helpful. Thank You</p>

<p>Additional Info: I have also been admitted from MichiganTech for PhD in same area without funding.</p>

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<p>Have you been admitted to any PhD programs with funding?</p>

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<p>Hi ucbalumnus,</p>

<p>No, as of now, both admits do not speak anything about funding. I suppose I will have to search for the same after college starts.</p>

<p>As I think, most of the admits at UCSB are without funding; and students get funding eventually after one or two semesters. So, I wanted to get more opinions about this… :)</p>