Hi Piyush,

I'm sorry, but I do not have good answers to your questions.

Note that many students in Amsterdam are not at all interested in doing a PhD, and so the number of such students doing a PhD at UvA or a better institute may also not be that informative. 
But I do know one UvA master's graduate who recently was admitted for a PhD in Cambridge (after he was rejected by Amsterdam itself - there's probably lots of noise in these decisions).

Hello,

unfortunately, we do not expect these articles to be created anymore. We removed the promise from the article.

Best wishes,

Leon

Hey Manuel,

sorry for the late reply! I have now reposted it at the EA forum:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2veWrFqMaGipFGiCM/european-master-s-programs-in-machine-learning-artificial

If the link doesn't yet work, it might be since the article is still awaiting moderator approval.

Hi Aidan_Kierans,

In the three cases I know, it went like this:

CWI: the student got in contact with a researcher from CWI who was willing to supervise a thesis. 

CHAI: Same.

Mila: Same.

Note that for CHAI and Mila, you may need recommendation letters if you go over their usual routes of research internships. I myself also applied to Mila and FHI and got recommendation letters for this, though in the end I was not able to get accepted there.

The programs in continental Europe (e.g. Amsterdam, Darmstadt, Tübingen, ETH, and Lausanne) are usually 2 years long and the UK ones (Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL) take one year. I don't know how well the UK ones adapted their program to online teaching, I have just heard that Edinburgh is currently struggling to do so.