It was officially announced today that the US economy has been in recession since Dec., 2007. Although people already knew about the economic downturn, this was an official statement coming from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Many people believe that recession is defined by two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. But that is not correct. NBER looks into many factors such as labor markets, housing markets, retail and other sectors to decide the state of the economy. This also makes it one of the longest recessions since the great depression of the 1930s. However, one thing that is surprising is that even with the state of things as they are presently, many employers in the economy are …

The New York based, Institute of International Education has released its annual report detailing the state of international admissions at US universities. In its Open Door’s report, they say that with 94,563 students coming from India, makes us the nation with the highest amount of talent coming to US universities to pursue higher education options. Here is a quick jist from their study.

Total foreign student numbers up 7%; New enrollments up 10%

Top three sending countries post double-digit increases

India up 13%, China up 20%, South Korea up 11%

USC is top host university; California is top host state; NYC is top host city;

Business and Management (20%) is top field of study followed closely by engineering (17%)

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Hi Guys. I wanted to draw your attention to a lot of discussion that has been going on at the kaaledge forums. Pretty often people dont end up on the forums - but in general trying to discuss stuff with others in the same boat as you is a pretty good way of moving forward. Of course, we guys at kaaledge.com are always there to help out with our insight and knowledge, but meeting other people who are interested in graduate education as you and have same questions as you - can be a big help. So here are a few sample posts from our forums:

Here is a readme for the kaaledge univ selector feature:
http://www.kaaledge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=248

Here is a comprehensive list …

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 …

Mrunal continues his series about the differences between MS and PhD - this time concentrating on the differences in funding scenarios between the two.
PHD is a long term commitment. Mostly in 99% cases students get admits from university if he shows a potential to be a PHD candidate and some professors finds him worthy to be working in his group. Professors control the funding. Professors have control on everything. They design the syllabus, teach, design labs, design exams, homeworks. They receive grants from different sources like industry, Government, national laboratories. The grants in US universities mainly arrive from Governments. National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), National laboratories are some of main sources which fund the …

This past weekend, we guys came out with a unique product - we call it mGRE. Its an SMS based GRE Vocab learning product - all you need to do is register your mobile number with us here: www.kaaledge.com/register-gre/ and we send out 1 to 4 SMSs daily to your cell phone - so that you can learn, revise and prepare for GRE on your cell phone, whenever and wherever you go!! A lot more features such as tests and ranking related stuff is going to come out with it soon. But for now, learn more about it here: www.kaaledge.com/mgre/
The idea is to help easy and quick access to vocab words - and so this is a help not only …

I got the chance to meet and interact with Mona Sharma here at Stanford this year and I must say Mona is a really inspiring person. I talked to her about various issues and i thought it would be good to get it out on kaaledge.com for everyone’s benefit. Mona is at Stanford on a year long Fullbright Scholarship - under the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching program.

Stanford India Association (SIA) has started the new academic year with a welcome function for the new comers at the Bachtel International Center. The current office bearers of SIA seem to be a highly motivated bunch. Their self-driven methods and dedicated efforts actually bore fruit with the success of their Welcome Party. In a first of its kind panel discussion - SIA hosted a panel of (desi) Venture Capitalists (VCs) living in the Bay Area, all of whom had spent time as students at Stanford, in a discussion moderated by Anand Rajaraman (who, btw I think is one of CS Departments star consulting professors and highly recommend his class cs345a in Winter). The discussions revolved around the role of Stanford, …

Hey Guys,
We want to announce the upgrade (and migration) to PHPBB3 for our forums! YE YE! Well, from the recent and quick interest shown by you guys in seeking help on the kaalEDGE - we thought it makes more sense to offer you guys not only an exceptional guidance and but also a slick user experience during the whole time that you are browsing the forums! So, go ahead and book mark www.kaaledge.com/forums as the new kaalEDGE forums - note that all the previous posts and your login information stay intact!
In case you find something not quite right, or have some insight/feedback that you would wanna share with us - or are just want to share your review of Om …

Hi Guys,
We are trying to push some updates to kaaledge forums and hence you might face some difficulties in posting queries to the forums. But I promise you that once we are done with those updates, you guys will have a much better user experience. So hold tight while we come up with a major upgrade!
kaalEDGE team!