Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 	Depends on the university. In a number of well known grad schools in
> the US, they actively discourage you from getting a MS, and strongly
> encourage you just go straight to the PhD - in fact, they often don't
> offer funding if you don't go directly into PhD, because they assume you
> just want an MS and will leave.

Odd. Never heard of that. I can see your point, but I would think the 
number of people who go thru the MS saying they'll get a PhD and knowing 
they're going to bail before then must be fairly low. Maybe where that 
has happened too often they instituted this policy.

>> You probably need to be a lot smarter to get a PhD in (say) physics or
>> engineering than in computers.
> 
> 	Engineering?
> 
> 	Not really. I think it's on par with CS. Both have areas that will
> require a lot of smartness, and both have areas that don't.

Maybe. The few engineering courses I sat in on seemed a lot harder. 
Maybe I'm just better at computers.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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