Take the opportunity while visiting departments to ask about specific institutional resources: You can save tremendously by sharing instruments that are already in - house. (sciencemag.org)
And tuition revenue is a direct input into institutional resources, making it hard to separate out the effect of one versus the other. (educationnext.org)
You simply have to be sure that you're at a site that has reputable institutional resources behind it. (educationworld.com)