Engineering Grad School

Graduate School
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I would like some advice about engineering grad school. Would it be better to go directly into industry or directly into grad school for mechanical engineering? What are the pros/cons?</p>

<p>I have heard that most companies will end up paying for your Master's. Is that fairly accurate? If I go directly to grad school, does that mean, it will come completely out of my pocket? And I have also heard, the pay increase for having a Master's isn't that much greater for entry level salaries then with a Bachelors.</p>

<p>My academic performance is a 3.2 overall with a 3.6 my last two years and one summer I did mentored research and presented at a conference. I got an 800 on the GRE math section too. Basically, I got my act together after my sophomore year. Would I have any chance of being directly admitted into a PH.D program? Would I get any sort of funding or would my freshmen and sophomore year performance offset that? Also, what kind of schools would I be able to get into?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Well I don't know much, but Grad schools tend to look at your last 2 years of college, so you improving then is good(on some applications, it just asks for your GPA the last 2 years of school). </p>

<p>Masters are usually out of your own pocket, some expense might be paid(for me, half my tuition per credit is paid, but its OOS so its pretty much giving me in-state deal with a bit more) and I've heard some people getting theirs covered fully, but not usually the norm; PhDs are usually with a research or teacher assistantship so that you go to school for free, work part-time, and get a stipend(usually something like 25-30k).</p>

<p>I think you've got a competitive stats, but I'm not a ME, so that's my 2 cents.</p>