u/teraform555

I recently got accepted into a neuroscience PhD. The project itself is very ML-heavy and my background is math and CS. The research direction feels pretty well-aligned with the dream goal of landing at top industry labs (DeepMind, Anthropic, etc.)
(I also really like the project!)

However, the university is ranked below 500. And my supervisor has a strong name but more in cognitive neuroscience, no connection to AI.

I did a LinkedIn deep-dive on researchers at these labs and it's almost exclusively MIT, Stanford, UCL, etc., which is pretty discouraging.

I am now considering declining and reapplying to somewhere like UCL instead. Would really appreciate any honest input. Thanks.