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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

A PhD is not a standard university degree. It's a research apprenticeship that takes place over multiple years around a specific question/research group. Even if a particular school is better (by some magazine's questionable ranking system), someone might choose to go to the "worse" school if the research of a particular supervisor is aligned with their background.

As per this article, our schools have identified that these particular students have backgrounds that are in line with the placements that they applied to, enough so that some of the students are fully funded so that they can come here and help push the work forward.

But I'm pretty sure you understand this already, and are choosing to sealion anyway. This explanation is for anyone else that comes across this thread. I'm applying a temporary ban so you can think about how you should speak about other human beings.