where to take EE graduate studies in electronics?

[Philip A. Marshall]

ugh. my university keeps cancelling all their analog electrical
engineering courses before i get a chance to take them, and intends to
cancel more courses next year. this all seems to be in favor of
unproven fields such as nanotechnology, and an insane amount of
emphasis on large signal/digital. seems a bit shortsighted to me (and
many professors agree with me), but ultimately my university is
concerned with their research, and not undergrad studies.

so, I'm pretty much stuck here for the rest of my BSc because I'm so
close to being done it doesn't make sense to switch right now. as a
result, I'm seriously looking to do graduate studies to learn the
stuff I WANTED to learn in undergraduate.

my areas of interest are feedback amplifiers, oscillators/signal
generators, filters and tuned amplifiers, analog integrated circuits,
etc etc. I have a wonderful analog electronics textbook that we'll
touch only the first few chapters of, so in theory I could learn a lot
of this myself. however, I think it would be helpful to have some
sort of direction. I'll take whatever I can while I'm here (i'll be
able to take a couple graduate courses even), but it's not going to be
much.

can anyone suggest where I should look for a good school where I could
study in the areas that I love, rather than the areas that people say
I should? (ugh.) I live in Canada right now, but anywhere in north
america is well within my reach. I probably wouldn't move overseas,
but hey, I'll take any suggestions you have to give.

Thanks!
-Phil

 

[Bob Morein]

ugh. my university keeps cancelling all their analog electrical
engineering courses before i get a chance to take them, and intends to
cancel more courses next year. this all seems to be in favor of
unproven fields such as nanotechnology, and an insane amount of
emphasis on large signal/digital. seems a bit shortsighted to me (and
many professors agree with me), but ultimately my university is
concerned with their research, and not undergrad studies.

so, I'm pretty much stuck here for the rest of my BSc because I'm so
close to being done it doesn't make sense to switch right now. as a
result, I'm seriously looking to do graduate studies to learn the
stuff I WANTED to learn in undergraduate.

my areas of interest are feedback amplifiers, oscillators/signal
generators, filters and tuned amplifiers, analog integrated circuits,
etc etc. I have a wonderful analog electronics textbook that we'll
touch only the first few chapters of, so in theory I could learn a lot
of this myself.

I've been looking for a textbook that is actually admired.
What is the title?