Mrunal Gawade is a masters student in Jack Baskin School of Engineering, in Computer Science department, at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He is from Pune, India. He received his undergraduate BE Computer Engineering degree from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune, India. Here is a post from Mrunal about the entire process of applying to US universities for MS - covering almost the entire spectrum from thinking about applying for MS/Phd to visa interview. Here is Mrunal (mrunalg.com) himself:
Applying for higher studies could be made easier if you have the plans on your mind at least in some form during your undergraduate days. Like say you know that you would be applying for MS / PHD in future( …

We had a brief conversation with Sudipti Gupta who is pursuing Masters in Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University currently. We talked to her about what MIS is all about, the career opportunities after it and what is the difference between an MIS and MS. Here is Sudipti with her views.
1. What course are engaged in right now and where?
Sudipti: Masters in Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University
2. Why did you decide on MIS as your next move in your career after BTech in IT?
Sudipti: Didn’t want hardcore technical jobs, but more on management and consulting side.

Hey Guys, we are constantly trying to make life easier for you - the grad school aspirants - and in doing so - we are trying to improve ourselves also. And so to make it more convenient for you guys - we have changed the theme of kaaledge to a more soothing and more crisp theme. In this theme, it is going to be very easy for you guys to get to the articles that you want to read. With column based navigation, its going to be a much easier task getting to the posts that you want to read or that are relevant to you.
We are coming up with more and more features to help you guys out …

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.