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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Virginia Tech is among the top universities in the engineering and science research in the US. It has a very competitive program at the graduate level. Recently Prof. Mili was awarded $2 million grant for sustainable power, communications infrastructure research. At any such point when a professor gets a lot of grant money, it is usually the case that a number of RA positions would be opening up in his/her group. And hence it would seem that in the ECE department at VT, the funding scenario would be pretty good in the next few months to come. We spoke to Kshitija Deshpande, a PhD student in ECE, specializing in Radio Astronomy.
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Wichita State University is among the finest in the country for higher education in Mechanical, Aerospace and related areas. The program from Mechanical dept. has some very nice course for FEA, CAE, Injury biomechanics, Stress analysis and Vibration. We spoke to Nilesh Dhole, who graduated from College of Engineering, Pune and is now pursuing a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Wichita State. Nilesh talks in detail about the kind of profile that is required to get in to Wichita State. And about the funding options at the university. Here is more from his interview:
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a. Name : Nilesh Dhole
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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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The University of California at Irvine is one of the fastest growing UC campuses. It has some of the most renowned names in Computer Science on its faculty list. The machine learning group at the university has some of the most renowned names on its list. People like Pierre Baldi have been instrumental in UC Irvine’s rise as a top notch CS department. But now, another big wig in the world of computer science joins UC Irvine as faculty. Mike Carey, a National Academy of Engineering member, is acknowledged as one of the 50 most influential computer scientists in the world by a UCLA-maintained Web site that tracks research citations. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery …

Northeastern University has a pretty popular program in Telecommunication Systems Management. We thought it would be helpful to aspirants to know more about what this program entails. We spoke to Sameer Marathe who is currently a Masters student at Northeastern specializing in Telecom Systems Management. Sameer took time out to talk to us in detail about the specifics of the admission requirements, work experience requirements, funding scenarios and a lot more. Here is more on Sameer and what he had to say:
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Name: Sameer Marathe
University you are studying or studied: Northeastern University, Boston
Currently pursuing: Masters
Department/Program you are enrolled in: Telecommunication Systems Management (TSM)
Specialization, if any: Business
Undergraduate College: PVG’s College of Engineering & Technology, Pune
Undergraduate University: University of Pune
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Georgia Institute of Technology (GEORGIA TECH)’s Industrial Engineering program is one of the best in the U.S. kaalEDGE.com had a chance to talk to Nishad Dravid, who is currently enrolled in this program. Nishad gives a great overview of the program, funding situation and job opportunities.
1. What is your current specialization in the Industrial Engineering Program?
Nishad: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
2. Why did you choose GEORGIA TECH?
Nishad: Actually it was the only admission I got. The reason for this is that I was really choosy in selecting my university. I was applying in Fall 2007 season, and if you go back a few pages on the history of the stock markets, it was a golden …

University of Florida Gainesville (UFL) has a popular Mechanical Engineering (ME) Program in the United States. We had the chance to talk to Ms. Bhavana Rajput, a Mechanical Engineering graduate student in UFL. Bhavana shares her thoughts with kaalEDGE.com about the Mechanical Engineering program, the composition of student population and research interest along with her insights about the application process at UFL.
1. Where did you do your undergraduate degree in India?
Bhavna: I did my undergraduate degree in Government College of Engineering, Pune which is affiliated to Pune University
2. What is your research area of interest?
Bhavna: My areas of research interest are Propulsion and Alternate Energy.
3. Can you give us some pointers to the general …

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

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Management of Information Systems is a course which is pretty popular among a lot of foreign students in the US. We had the chance to meet an MIS graduate from CMU’s MISM program - Sudeep Agarwal. Sudeep works for Oracle now and has taken the time to talk with kaalEDGE.com and shares his experiences from the CMU program in MIS and his insights from the application process.
1. Can you tell us about your background in India - undergrad education, etc.?
Before MIS, I worked with Oracle India for 3 years. I did my undergrad in Chemical Engg from BITS Pilani.
2. Which program did you pursue and at which university in the US?

I got my masters in Information Systems Management …