Many students have expressed anxious feelings about deciding to go for an MS to the US given the current situation of financial institutions in the country. The financial situation inside the country has not been the best as compared to the last few years. In fact in many ways, its similar to the situation which was present in the 1987 economic slow down. However, many the dent caused will be felt slowly across many sectors. The first and primary harm is caused to the banks. Hence, a job in he financial sector is hard to come by - not too hard though as banks still need to operate and still need talented people - however, investment banking as …

In the recent past, the management education in the US has come under fire from a lot of people. The MBA programs have had to deal with a lot of heat from various quarters - for lacking a focus on professional aspects of management - for encouraging learning the textbook - and not encouraging bright ideas coming from students themselves.
However, one of the biggest assets of US educational institutes lies in their ability to react quickly to constructive criticism and do fast non-bureaucratic curriculum reviews - unlike most other university systems. So schools like Graduate School of Business at Stanford, Kellogg School at Northwestern, Sloan School at MIT and the Johnson School at Cornell are among the schools leading …

In the past days i have had many people talk to me about how it becomes a virtual ordeal for them to study for out of course related stuff like GRE and MS etc - in the face of so many distractions like heavy courseload, distractions from friends, movies, alcohol, girlfriends, boy friends, etc. These are all things which are probably being faced by a lot of aspirants all over the globe. And these are by no means trivial issues, i mean dealing with your friends -saying no to them for a movie - can be a very tough task. If you are working and have a girl friend - then spending time away from her studying for your …

While there are many, many guidelines out there which you will be asked to follow while writing your SOP - its not very hard to come up with some basic guiding principles on which to base your SOP. In this post, we have tried to drill down to a few basic principles you should keep in mind at all times, while writing your SOP. Since these are pretty basic and kind of like notes-to-self - they are described crisply so that you can take the maximum out of them and commit them to memory:
1. Basic idea is to convince the admission committee - that you are the student for the job.
2. Succinctly describe how you are a fit for the …

If you thought studying for GRE while at college was tough - trying studying for GRE while you are working! Its tough! I spoke to Nitin from Bangalore about his experience of studying and excelling at GRE while still working full time. Nitin was kind enough to share a lot of his preparation ideas and his background - and in general his thoughts as he prepares to app for academic year 2009.
1. Which college did you graduate from?
Nitin: I graduated from IIIT-Allahabad with degree BTech(IT) Dec 2006.
2. Where do you work right now?
Nitin: Currently I am working as senior Java Developer in Arcot Systems R & D, Bangalore , India. Its a US based company and creates security …

So you slogged it out for your GRE. And how you are done! Some happy with their GRE score, others not so happy - so now what?? What do you do now? Well many people think the toughest part is over, and i actually tend to agree. But what is not over, is a period of uncertainity. You are still not sure about which universities to apply to - your SOP still needs work (or hasnt even started) and recos are yet to be taken from profs. So a lot is still hanging in the air. Here is where kaalEDGE is trying to help you guys out with university recommendations. We just started with another project - that of …

Well, one thing is for sure - if you are applying to a US univ from Asia - chances are that you are cash strapped - meaning - in many cases you can barely afford a US college education! Heck, people in the western world find it hard to pay their way through college and with the dollar growing strong against the world currencies, its even harder for people in the developing world to think about education in the US. Many universities hence make it mandatory for students to send in proof of finances at the time of admission - while others require proof of finances after admit is issued for I-20 release.
The proof of finances - is to …

CMU has many varied sub departments within its CS and EE departments. One such department in LTI - which is the Language Technologies Institute. What goes on here? What sort of students make it here? And what are the funding opportunities for students who come for a Masters or PhD? We spoke with a current student - who wished to remain anonymous for this post. We had a couple of questions for which he had very interesting reponses which might prove helpful to a lot of prospective students. Here is the interview:
1. What course are pursuing at CMU?
Masters in Language Technologies. That means learning computer
languages and techniques to make a computer understand your languages.
I am working on automatic translation …

So if you are not done with GRE and have filled up the 4 universities that you want ETS to report your scores to - very soon you are going to start thinking about how to report your GRE scores to other universities. We have compiled a few ways you can report these scores to universities through ETS. Here they are:
By Mail or Fax
* Download and complete the Additional Score Report Form (PDF) or use the form found in the center of the Bulletin.
* Mail it with the fee to the address on the form.
* The fee is U.S. $20 per score recipient.
* Requests …

So what exactly does it take to make it to a top 10 university in the US? How hard do you have to slog? What kind of attitude do you have to build? Any shortcuts you can take? Well - after talking to Arnav Anand - one thing is clear - start thinking about it early - and don’t just follow the herd - do what you think you should be doing - be it GRE prep, university selection, etc. We spoke to Arnav Anand, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a Masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering with Engineering Manangement, in 2008. Here is what Arnav had to say:
1. Which program did you come to study in …