<p>Hi,
I am currently completing my undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering. I want to pursue MS in Aerospace Engineering. I am studying the basics of Flight & Aerodynamics through self study. I neither have an outstanding academic record (current aggregate of 66%) nor achievements. I have done my own research & shortlisted the following universities-</p>
<p>University of Maryland - College Park
University of Colorado - Boulder
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Texas A & M University
University of Washington-Seattle Campus</p>
<p>Which of the above universities have a good MS program ?
Please suggest more good colleges apart from the above mentioned.
Help is very appreciated.</p>
<p>post this query on the graduate school forum</p>
<p>All of those schools have good aerospace engineering programs. The only problem is that with your academic record, you would probably have a hard time getting into any of them as they are all reasonably selective. At least with an MS program, they are probably willing to take a little bit more of a chance.</p>
<p>Basically, your only real hope is to have a stellar GRE, research experience already and great professor recommendations. Otherwise you may have to shoot for some lower-ranked schools.</p>
<p>Even though I know that it will be difficult for me to get through a good program, I don’t want to go for a lower ranked school because it may be difficult for me to find employment in the aerospace sector after graduating from a lowly ranked program.
Talking of rankings, can you please tell me which of the aerospace program rankings are more reliable, phds.org or US News ?</p>
<p>I am not really familiar with phds.org, but just a quick perusal of the site seems like it is a pretty neat tool. Also, any ranking tool that doesn’t immediately anoint MIT as king seems pretty nice. US News is okay, but it isn’t perfect by any means and is really only useful for putting schools in roughly defined tiers.</p>
<p>Anyway, you may not want to go somewhere lower ranked, but you may not have a choice. 66% is really probably best equated to something slightly below a B-average from what I can tell, which means you will have a hard time getting into those top programs. That is just the way it is.</p>
<p>Thanks a ton. My only concern is working in the aerospace sector. What is the career outlook of aerospace graduates from the lower ranked programs ?
Do they find employment in the aerospace sector ?</p>