U.S. Universities Questions & Answers 1

I’m starting to write U.S. Universities Questions and Answers series along with GRE Questions and Answers. Lately, Happy Schools Blog is receiving lots of comments and I get lots of emails daily. Instead of responding to each person, answering the questions as blog post will help other blog readers.

U.S. Universities series will include topics related to University selection, general questions about American Universities, value of education, job opportunities after grad school, internship search and graduate school admission and much more.

1) How will MS in Computer Science will help to make progress in research field?

Almost all programs in U.S. Universities are research based. If you plan to get some research experience, then its good idea to opt for Thesis track, where you will work with professor in his research and if that interests you, then you can certainly think about PhD in Computer Science.

2) How much of a difference will it make if I do MCA (or any degree in that case) from India?

Well, its hard to equate degree from India like MCA to Masters degree in U.S. Universities. Most of the courses you will study here in U.S. University will be research based and practical. You might do 3 projects in one semester, compared to say 10 projects in MCA in one course, but amount of things you will learn in one project will be equivalent to learn from one semester from MCA.

Also, time required to learn new technology and implement the project will be like 2-3 weeks. So, think about learning new programming language every month. Projects here will be challenging. In MCA you will be using Oracle database, but here you will create a database like Oracle using C or C++.

3) Will a degree from US University help or is it equivalent to an Indian degree?

Any day and time, I can bet degree from U.S. stands out. But, if you compare degree from IIT India, then both can be compared.

4) If it is equivalent then which degree should I complete for getting a good respectable job in research field? Since education in US involves investing a lot of money, thus in order to make a good decision, I need to clarify this doubt.

Both the degrees are almost not equivalent. That’s one of the reason why U.S. Universities are the destination where students from all over the world come to study, about 70,00 to 80,000 students form India came to U.S. for studies last year.

5) I am writing GRE this week. I have no idea as to what universities to apply for during the test. I want to do MS in electronics and communication engineering  preferably vlsi or embedded systems. What universities shall I apply if i get a score between 900-1000? or 1000-1100? or 1200-1300?

Answers to University selection is not simple. I’m in the process of creating complete list of Universities based on GRE Score and department. But, it will be sometime before all the data will be available. You can find info on some U.S. Universities.

That concludes first edition of U.S. Universities Questions and Answers. If you like your questions to be answers, write a comment to this article, I plan to answer questions about Universities every week.

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