Graduate School information

[shwaip]

Does anyone know of any good resources on ranking/description of various graduate schools? I'm looking to get a masters after I graduate from Rose-Hulman (Graduate late winter next year). I'm looking for a program in Computer/Electrical Engineering.

I've been searching the web recently and haven't really turned up much.

[TheBaron]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

but come to Texas, its the place to be :)

[shwaip]

Yeah, they show some info on the top3, then I have to pay.


Texas, you say? One of my friends said the following about texas:
"NEVER GO THERE"

[TheBaron]

Yeah, they show some info on the top3, then I have to pay.


Texas, you say? One of my friends said the following about texas:
"NEVER GO THERE"
ask your friend to elaborate, then I'll reply. I love it here, the faculty is amazing. As a grad student, you may find that a smaller school will attempt to provide you more money up front, but remember that there are other resources available to engineering grad students that can help you make money while going to school. DARPA has funds set aside for US born engineering grad students, and UT has an enormous research campus where I work - and by being a UT employee I don't have to pay for tuition or fees

[shwaip]

Where I end up doesn't really matter that much to me - I think one of my friends is also going to go to grad school, and it would be really cool if we went the same place. I wasn't really serious about the texas remark either. I'd also really like to not be in the midwest.


Also - any reccomendations for GRE prep books/software? I got the free stuff from ETS, but I was wondering if there was something better.

[TheBaron]

lol, everyone has told me the GRE is easy, I was planning to try very hard on it. I think I'm gonna concentrate on LSATs instead (I'm a EE btw)

[shwaip]

I'll assume you're going into law, then? Or is there some other reason to take them (LSATs).

[TheBaron]

I've been kind of torn on this issue for awhile. If I'm sticking with engineering, I'll be getting a Masters degree at the least. I'm just not sure theres enough of a future in the tech industry for me to want to take that route. I've been looking into alternatives, and I'm fairly confident that I could do well in corporate or patent law

[JB]

Also - any reccomendations for GRE prep books/software? I got the free stuff from ETS, but I was wondering if there was something better.


I picked up the Barron's general study and Kaplan verbal workbook. I took a practice gre and the math was a JOKE (algebra, fractions, easy stuff) but the verbal really gave me a tough time.

As for grad schools I've found you have to go to the individual school's webpages and check out their research and current projects. So far no luck in finding a combined database of stuff. Any idea on what you want to do specifically? Im looking at AI, robotics, VLSI design, and embedded systems at the moment. Some of the schools i am checking out are Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, Washington, University of Central Florida, University of Minnesota (since i was there last summer), MIT (you never know) and some others. I am also going to look into the schools participating in the DARPA challenge to design autonomous vehicles cause thats just really cool.

[Crazy Joe]

I took the GRE and passed it pretty easily with no prep... It's a pretty easy test...

[Gargoyle]

If you go through the ETS-provided math study guide, the math part of the GRE will be a breeze. The vocabulary part just sucks though. I got about 200 points less on the verbal section than I did the math section, but I still got a higher percentile on verbal (ie - everyone does pretty badly). Picking up a study guide for the verbal part wouldn't be a bad idea.

As for picking a school, the goal is to find the best school for your program of study (who cares if the university itself is highly rated if they have a bad engineering program) that will offer you an assistantship to pay for it. Looking at rankings is a good start, but also talk to your professors for their ideas.