How to Choose Your Grad School — Tim Dettmers

How to choose an advisor? Is school prestige important? How important are peers? I answer these questions to help you find the right grad school.

If you are reading this, then you probably finished the long and arduous journey to grad school. You emerged victoriously, and this success is well-deserved. But which school should you choose? How to make a right choice if all schools look great in their own way? This blog post is centered around these questions. It is most useful if you are a computer science student aiming to study machine learning and, in particular, natural language processing in the US, but most of the information here is equally valid for any field of research and any country. The choice of grad school that is right for

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