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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Riddle" data-source="post: 16780295" data-attributes="member: 47610">How do you think academics form their opinion about a university in a different country? <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/rolleyes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Rolleyes    :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />Wow. I think you got me there. Now you not only have one, but a freaking TWO people who say that the quality of undergrad education has gone down!!What's more, this person is not even named! He is a 'prominent Sri Lankan medical doctor'. But that's OK, he's talking shit about govt universities isn't he - so I guess we should just believe him. If at all there is a 'him'. If a different article was written claiming that a 'prominent doctor' said that the quality has improved would you agree with that?Exactly my point dear. How do you now that Navaratne is telling the truth?OK so you are seriously ill-informed1. When you are applying for a graduate position in a company no one asks what your A/L or O/L result was. Likewise when you are applying for an academic job what is relevant is your postgraduate qualifications. Not your undergrad. The PhD (or other postgraduate degrees) is a basic entry qualification for an academic job. I fail to see how it is 'pointless'.Having studied at a top 500 university for your undergrad is what could be called 'pointless' to judge an academic by. 2.The fact that you have now mentioned, twice, that PhD students do not do any coursework at all shows just how clueless you are about the whole deal. What your undergrad university is plays a great deal on whether you get selected. You just aren't aware of this because you are not familiar with the admissions process. If they have not had students before, the university has no means of gauging whether students from a university in a different country are capable. MIT has had Sri Lankan students before. One of them who did his undergrad at Moratuwa won the best thesis award for his PhD. This helps quite a bit because they know that Mora students do well. Since as far as I know MIT does not consider the GRE for admissions this becomes doubly important. It might be because the cutting edge stuff they do is not valued in SL. It might be because the real money is when you sell stuff abroad. When you sell stuff to other countries that in itself is doing something exceptional to the country.Also the Colombo Stock Exchange runs on MIT software, the same company that makes software for the London Stock Exchange - so there's that as well. Oh so I will get to know the difference eh? What a bold and ridiculous assumption to make without knowing anything about my situation at all. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/rolleyes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Rolleyes    :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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