All conversations I have with myself lead to this conclusion. It's definitely the quality of the research that matters to me. I find the notion of being a renegade physicist from a second-rate university pushing the frontier of scientific knowledge very romantic.
Thank you so much for the advice and initiation! My reason for the question is that it's fairly early on in my grad search, so I don't know whether I'm PhD material yet. Grades are fine and research is there, but I'm by no stretch a sexy candidate. So when I found out Canada offers terminal...
I'm an undergraduate at a quality (though not highly ranked) private school in the US, but I think I'd like to go to grad school in Canada for the experience. My grades are decent (~3.70) and will have a couple of years of research by the time I graduate. I'm thinking of applying for a masters...