We recently spoke to Krishna Chaitanya from NIT Suratkal who has recently made it to the Ohio State University for MS in Computer Science. We thought it would be the right time to ask him about his journey to OSU. Krishna tells us what the admissions committee there values in a students’ application. He also has advice on how to approach the GRE and about career prospects after MS. He also talks about the funding scenario there. Here he is himself..
1. Hi Krishna. What do you think are important aspects the admission committee looks for candidates at ohio state university?
Krishna: I have observed that most of the universities give a lot of importance to good grades. Its a different story …

This post from Dhruv talks in detail about the Management Science and Engineering Masters program at Stanford University. This follows his earlier post on how MS&E program
It’s a tough job trying to summarize the Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) Program in a few words. I can boldly say that it is not perfectly equivalent to any of the programs found at other Universities. It must, therefore, be understood in terms of its constituent courses and the ultimate goal that Stanford wishes to achieve with this eclectic combination of Management and Engineering courses.
The variety of courses on offer makes the MS&E program highly customizable to suit the student’s preferred specialization in wide array of technical, management and techno-management fields. Each …

So we have been talking a whole lot about universities in the US. But there are some really nice universities in Canada where people find good education at cheap rates and its good value for money. Many times its easier to find scholarships at Canadian univs. We spoke to Amod Gupta, who is a Masters student in computer science at University of Waterloo. We asked him why he chose to go to this university, how he was funding himself and what avenues he saw after his masters. He also talks about what the university values in the applications it receives from students. Here is Amod himself telling his story..

The Department of Computer Science at Stanford released data about the salary statistics for the out going batch of 2007-2008 - and this also included survey of students from Electrical Engineering Dept. We have managed to get our hands on it and here we present for our readers, what the data looks like. The salaries are segmented based on 3 types of degrees, bachelors, masters and PhD.

Many people have been curious about what sort of courses exist in the US for people interested in automobile engineering. kaaledge team has done some research on this and come up with the following list of universities which offer courses in automotive engineering:
1. Some of the best automotive engineers are produced by University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University - these 3 univs cater to the detroit automobile industry.
2. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) - Purdue has been producing top notch engineers for the detroit region for a long time - but Indiana Univ and Indianapolis are no less.
3. Cornell University - has always been known as one of the best engineering universities in the US …

Recently i have received a larger than expected number of emails and queries as to what it takes to get into stanford. I am not claiming that i am any sort of authority or any sort of seer - who knows exactly what it takes. But what i do have is the opportunity of being in the company of people who make such decisions and people who got in as a result of those decisions (as I was part of the CS admissions committee at Stanford) and also i have been in a position to be able to influence such decisions. Here is a very short analysis of what it takes to get into a Masters program at Stanford in …

Alhad Palkar has just recently graduated with an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CMU. He holds a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering ( Mumbai University). Alhad has had a good stint with the industry as well while at CMU - doing his summer internship at Oracle and then now coming to work for Cisco full time. Here he shares his views on what, how and when of getting into CMU, in an interview with kaaledge.com . He talks about how a Masters in CMU is a big value addition to his career.

Not many people know about Masters in the area of Industrial engineering or as it is known in the US as Management Science and Engineering. Graduates from this field land up jobs at some of the most admired companies of the world like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Google, Microsoft along with a host of start up companies. Dhruv Sampat just recently graduated with an MS in MS&E from Stanford. He shares some of his thoughts and his background with us here:
kaaledge: What is your background - i.e. - education in india - which college
and course?
DS: I did my Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Mumbai University at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering. I worked as a Programmer Analyst at Tata Consultancy …

I actually think that I am quite an emotional human being. But usually I try to hide that from people. But somehow I couldnt control emotions after i watched this lecture given by CMU Prof. Randy Pausch. I personally think that this lecture was the best I have ever seen. A brief back ground on the story - Prof. Randy Pausch is one the nation’s leading authorities on Virtual World Technology, an expert in HCI and Software Engineering.
He was recently diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and has about 5-6 months of good health left. I think everyone has a lesson to learn from his talk. He gave a talk in a series which was called - “the Last Lecture” - if …

I generally prefer to have interest provocating titles to my articles in order to encourage people to read through them. But let me warn you at the outset that if you are looking for a procedural way of putting together a good application packet, this article is NOT going to help you at all. The hard fact is that an application is only as good as the person who is evaluating the application thinks it is good. The only chance of a grad school aspirant is to prepare an application that is more likely to be evaluated by more people as good, which, in itself is a pretty daunting task.
The following discussion holds more or less both for students who …