I’m graduating on May 2017 with a BS in computer science.
I’m interested in working in a career that are related to visual recognition or virtual reality.
Could someone give me a list of graduate schools that are industry-oriented and offers my interests? I googled around but they’re more about research.
I’m looking for a graduate school that’s in the United States (it would be better if it was in California. Northern California to be more specific), and won’t take more than 2 years to complete. And the whole master’s degree shouldn’t cost more than $50k in tuition and fees alone.
Honestly, this is asking people to do an enormous amount of work for you - and work that you really have to do on your own. Research and professional interests for terminal MS programs do often overlap, though - if you want to go to an MS program with strengths in VR, the best way to find that is honestly to find one with a research center in VR or a bevy of professors doing that kind of research. The reason is that then those professors will be teaching classes in their expertise area and may also have connections in industry to partners and clients in that same area.
Also, I think “industry-oriented” is kind of a false dichotomy with research…research and industry can go hand in hand. For example, Stanford is a top research institution, but their computer science department definitely has deep connections in industry. I would say the department is industry-oriented, but a student produced from Stanford CS would be well positioned to enter either academic research or a position in Silicon Valley et al. What you’re really looking for is a department with good career services and job placement, which you can probably assess through the career services office of the university or by looking at job placement statistics (ask the departmental administrator).
If you are a resident of CA, then the public universities in CA will cost less than $50K for tuition and fees alone. (That’s true of most public universities if you are an in-state resident.) But other than that, you’d be hard-pressed to find any MS programs that cost less than $50K (i.e., $25K per year in tuition).
Thanks for the response, juillet! I was going to take a long shot and see if anyone already knows a school that I’m asking for. I’ll take your advice on searching for a department that has good career services, because I didn’t think of that. I was focused on industry and VR.