Its that time of the year that students who had applied for MS slowly start hearing back from the universities that they applied to. Such times can be very anxious for students. Its not easy to hide anxiety when so many of your fellow students start receiving news of admit of rejects from universities. So one fine morning you get up and see an email pop you in your inbox from the admissions committee of a university that you applied to. And with God’s grace it has an admit to that university for you!! You are all ecstatic and announce to all your friends that you are in!! And you relax in knowing that at least one univeristy is securely …

With the on-going economic meltdown of the US, many a grad student who will come to this country will obviously need to start living on a shoe-string budget. Many students in general live pretty much on paltry sums of money initially. At this point, any student who is going to travel to foreign shores to study, needs to start preparing before leaving, as to how to cut un-necessary costs and start living lean! Here are certain items which have a going to be your chief sources of strain on your wallet.

* Health insurance
* Tuition and other academic fees
* Books and Academic supplies
* Housing Rent
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Continuing from our last post on how to write good Masters’ thesis’, here is part 2 in the series. This part talks largely about how to present you work, how to conclude your thesis and how to utilize the reference section of the thesis.
5. Presentation of Your Thesis Work
If a Master’s thesis had a climax, this would be it. The structure is highly flexible, and will depend much on the nature of your work. Whatever the thesis format, the objective is the one and the same: persuade your reader that you have done what you set out to do in writing a Master level thesis. Show all relevant evidence to support your position, and don’t weaken it with the …

Many of the Masters level courses in the US have writing a thesis as s compulsory requirement for finishing up grad school. It is a way of putting your learnings and contribution in black and white and securing it as a future reference for latter students. Here are some tips to give you basic instructions and tips on how to write a good Master’s thesis paper. This is part 1 of a 2 part series describing in detail the essential aspects of how to writing a Masters Thesis.
A good thesis paper has 2 essential qualities: first, it identifies a good question; and second, it provides a satisfactory reply to that question.
Thesis question has to be unanswered. Its reply must serve …

Indians the world over are making us (Indians) proud. They are now solving issues that concern the world at large, and not just trying to solve small issues restricted in their relevance to local realms. And this time, its students of engineering and management at Stanford who have shone. Rahul Alex Panicker and Naganand Murty are part of a 4 -member team at Stanford which formed a non-profit called Embrace. Embrace came out of a project based course at Stanford - Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability. The problem this team was thinking about was that in the developing world, where at least 20 million low-birth-weight babies are born every year, incubators are so expensive - they are totally out of …

In our last post, we covered a lot on the scholarships available for students wishing to pursue education abroad. But that route is not always open to all. In fact, scholarships for students who wish to study abroad are often hard to come by, and competition is stiff for the few scholarships that are out there. Sometimes, even after the announcements of scholarships, the decision on who would actually get the scholarship is not taken till very late. In those cases, students are often left in the lurch. And hence, the idea of taking student education loans is also in vogue. A lot of students from India take up loans from various banks. These loans are then paid off within …

So here’s a question - which many would think a little silly, but - How important to your career is going to study at an Ivy League University? Silly because many of you are thinking, of course its important! Ivy League universities are some of the biggest brands in education. These institutions and the brand value which comes along with it - are truly exceptional. These are, however, things that may be missing at other good institutes. So, definitely, you say, its a good idea to go to Ivy League. And i agree. Ivy League univs and others like them (MIT and Stanford are not Ivy League) are a must-have - if your aim is for example to build a …

For many of the international students who came to the US for higher education, this is the time when they are probably nose deep in studies, with the final exams just round the corner, or already underway. Finals in most US universities for the Fall Semester (or quarter as the system goes in most Californian universities) take place around the second week of December. And winter vacations start from the middle of December usually upto the middle of January. We asked a few first year graduate students and a few second year graduate students as to how they felt at the end of the Fall Semester.
Awantika Manohar, a first year graduate student of Law at Cornell University said - “The …

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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Two years ago, Minal Khodani was one of many students from Mumbai University who thought of going abroad for higher education and making it big. But Minal was one of the few who actually dared to dream big and worked towards it and lived it! Minal came to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a MS in Wireless Networking. After doing well there, she was offered a job at Oracle Inc in Redwood Shores, California. We took the time to speak to Minal about her decision to pursue MS and how she went about the preparation. Minal gives a detailed outlook on things and mentions important pieces in the application process that people should take care of. Here is Minal her self…
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