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 …

A lot has been happening in the field of graduate education abroad. This post is about specifically presenting concise pieces of information about what is happening. Lets start with news on scholarships. NVIDIA Corp of USA has a fellowship program for graduate students called NVIDIA Fellowship Program 2009. Quoting from their site, “The NVIDIA Fellowship Program provides funding to Ph.D. students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in the graphics and digital media industry, and are investigating innovative ways of leveraging the power of the GPU. We select students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with us early in their careers. Recipients not only receive crucial funding for their research, …

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 …

There has been a lot of interest in knowing what composes a good SOP. A lot has been said about that in our previous posts here and here. But if you are someone short of time, and needs a crash course in writing a good SOP - here are some quick notes. (credits to Prof. Vince Gotera | University of Northern Iowa)

A “hook” that demonstrates your passion for the field
Segué to your background in the field
Description of your academic background in the field
Specific classes you have taken, given by name
Specific professors you have had, especially if well-known in that field
Extracurricular activities in the field
Publications or other professional accomplishments in the field (perhaps conference presentations or public readings)
Explanations about problems in …