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 …

Not many people know about Masters in the area of Industrial engineering or as it is known in the US as Management Science and Engineering. Graduates from this field land up jobs at some of the most admired companies of the world like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Google, Microsoft along with a host of start up companies. Dhruv Sampat just recently graduated with an MS in MS&E from Stanford. He shares some of his thoughts and his background with us here:
kaaledge: What is your background - i.e. - education in india - which college
and course?
DS: I did my Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Mumbai University at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering. I worked as a Programmer Analyst at Tata Consultancy …