Considering Grad school for Engineering, HELP!

Graduate School
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<p>I am currently a junior Electrical Engineering major at Penn State. I am starting to think about grad school. </p>

<p>I was wondering if anyone has applied for a Masters Of Engineering Degree, as opposed to a Masters of Science in Engineering. </p>

<p>What are the advantages of one over the other. Is it easier to get into a Masters of Engineering program, as opposed to a Masters of Science in Engineering?</p>

<p>Also what percentage of grad school applicants get either a fellowship, teaching assistant, or research assistant position?</p>

<p>If i decide to go to grad school i would go for electrical engineering. I still dont know what specific area of this field i would like to go into, is that a problem ( i realize i still have a semester before i need to apply.)</p>

<p>Also what kind of schools can i look to get into with a 3.5 - 3.6 gpa. I dont have research experience, just several internships. A few extracurriculars, and i have not taken GRE's yet, i think i know one professor who could give me a decent recommendation. </p>

<p>Based on these stats, what kind of schools could i potentially get aid from?</p>

<p>Also if anyone is going to grad school, for electrical engineering, id appreciate learning about your stats, and or what field you decided to go into and why?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>bump, trying to get some opinions</p>

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<p>I can only talk about my department at my university, so this advice may be complete bunk if applied elsewhere.</p>

<p>We have a few ME's at Princeton in my department (chemical engineering) and several in EE. I guess one advantage is they finish in one year as opposed to two. It's easier in the sense that you don't have to write a thesis and literally are just taking classes (all graduate in engineering). That said, the ones I knew in EE were constantly working on projects; literally doing more work than I was as a PhD student. </p>

<p>A lot of the MSE students are at Princeton on special fellowships where they TA the whole time, so in exchange for that they get free tuition/stipend. Thus, I'd suspect this is a little more competitive than the ME program. ME's tend to be obtained a few years after undergrad and are nearly always paid for by a company. I don't know any ME students who pay for it themselves, and I don't think there's any kind of financial aid for them within the school. I know to get tuition reimbursed a lot of times they have to maintain a 3.3, which can be challenging here.</p>

<p>Some ME's choose to do research while they're here, I think it might count as one of their classes.</p>