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sysvirt · 2008 June 15th, 10:53 AM

I'm exploring the possibility of doing an MS in Comp Sc and engineering from a reputed engineering school in the US.I don't have a formal computer science academic background - I majored in metallurgical and materials engineering around 7 years back from IIT Kharagpur.However I had few courses pertaining to computing such as Introduction to computing,Data structures and program design and Computational materials engineering

Since graduation, I have been associated with software design and development ,and I carry close to 7 years of relevant industry experience across domains such as Virtualization,EAI,PLM and finance.

I intend to do a specialized MS program in either distributed systems or information networking.Lacking the requisite formal computer science background,I was wondering if it would be possible to go ahead with my career plan?If yes, how do I go about the bridging the gaps? Are there reputed schools in the US that offer MS programs to students with my kind of profile?

I'm anticipating some valuable pointers/suggestions from the experts here.

NB I had taken GMAT and had a score of 710 with 99%ile in the quantitative section. Do I still need to take the ordinary GRE?

2008 June 15th, 10:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
sysvirt I JUST got here. Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 2	Possibility of doing an MS in computer sc. or engg with a non-comp sc background? I'm exploring the possibility of doing an MS in Comp Sc and engineering from a reputed engineering school in the US.I don't have a formal computer science academic background - I majored in metallurgical and materials engineering around 7 years back from IIT Kharagpur.However I had few courses pertaining to computing such as Introduction to computing,Data structures and program design and Computational materials engineering Since graduation, I have been associated with software design and development ,and I carry close to 7 years of relevant industry experience across domains such as Virtualization,EAI,PLM and finance. I intend to do a specialized MS program in either distributed systems or information networking.Lacking the requisite formal computer science background,I was wondering if it would be possible to go ahead with my career plan?If yes, how do I go about the bridging the gaps? Are there reputed schools in the US that offer MS programs to students with my kind of profile? I'm anticipating some valuable pointers/suggestions from the experts here. NB I had taken GMAT and had a score of 710 with 99%ile in the quantitative section. Do I still need to take the ordinary GRE?