Re: Oceanography Graduate Schools

> > Professor Marotzke, who was one of the leading members of the graduate
> > teaching program at Southamton, has now moved to the US. Does this
> > mean that the US and the UK are similar?

> Everyone knows you choose a graduate school based on the quality of the
> school's football team.  By that metric, given the current BCS rankings
> you would want to go to:

Very funny....but no one has attempted to answer my original question:
>Can anyone give me some comparisons between US and UK graduate programs?

I'll try to provoke readers here a bit more.
I found the listing of PhD topics at SOC more carefully and consistently
written than those found at any of the US schools of oceanography web sites
I've visited.
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/graduate/admissions/projects/?link=make_list.php&type=subject

Does this level of openness and detail portend a superior graduate student
experience?
Or is does this indicate rigid, PI-defined research topics with little
chance of influence by the graduate student?

- ER