Fall 2010 | MS CS | GRE 1450 (Q800 V650) | TOEFL 113 | VTU 76.07 | 2+ yrs wrkex

[ArchiDutta]

Hello

A short background. I was initially planning for a MS in MIS as I have relevant workex. But my heart was in CS so am aiming for that now. I have compiled a (rather large) list of univs.

I have 2+ (3 by Fall 2010) years of work ex at IBM India Software Labs in software development.
GRE 1450 (Q800 V650)
TOEFL 113
B.E. in Information Technology -VTU (MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology) - 76.07% (Around 7th in dept of 120)
8th Sem proj at National Aerospace Labs. Creation of a p2p protocol and a file sharing application to demonstrate the robustness of the protocol.

I am aiming for a MS CS in either AI (Machine Learning, NLP), Networks or Info Sec and have gone through the websites of each of the colleges below. Only a few of them have distinct courses for IS and networks and most of them offer it as a specialization under CS.

I am planning to bring down this list to 10 (3 Ambis, 4 Mods, 3 Safes). Kindly rate and if required suggest changes to the list. (Also had a few doubts. Places where I could not find the course details are marked by a ? (looking for MS CS) Other doubts are explicitly stated.)

Stanford - MS CS - Machine Learning

GaTech - MS CS
GaTech - MS HCI CS
GaTech - MS IS

ASU - MCS

Columbia - MS CS

CMU INI - MSIT-MOB
CMU INI - MSIN
CMU INI - MSISTM

UCal, Irvine, Bren:ICS - MS CS (Confused: There is a MSCS from both the ischool and engineering school)

UCal, Berkeley, EECS - MS CS

UCal, Davis - MS CS

UCal, LA - MS CS

UCal, San Diego - MS CS

USC - MS CS - Networks
USC - MS CS - Security

SUNY, Stony Brook - MS CS

University of Florida - MS CS

Cornell University - MEng CS (Confused: 1yr course ?)

UPenn - CIS/MSE

Penn State - MS CS

UT Austin - ? (AGRE is highly recommended, will mostly skip this one)

UMaryland CP - MS CS (Confused: Is the CMSC dept the right one)

UMich Ann-Arbor - ?

NCSU - MS CS

Indiana University, Bloomington - MS CS

UIUC - MS CS

UMass - MS CS

TAMU - MS CS

Purdue - MS CS

University of Utah - MS CS

.:. Archi

[CalmLogic]

UT Austin - ? (AGRE is highly recommended, will mostly skip this one)

BTW, the majority of the people who are admitted to UT Austin did not report a GRECS score:

http://www.urch.com/forums/gre-compu...tml#post534527 (Preparing for GRE CS)

I would suggest removing UMass Amherst from your list since they don't seem to really even want MS students except those who plan a research career later on.

And I don't think admission to Berkeley is going to happen. Their website makes them look a lot more accepting than they really are.

[ArchiDutta]

ty. In addition could you rate the remaining so I can create a list of 10.

.:. Archi