<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I am doing a summer internship right now which is altering my outlook on graduate school. Previously, I was solely looking at PhD programs but after talking with a few people here, I believe I should also consider MS programs (Research-based ones if possible). Anyone have statistics on MS admissions to the big schools? (Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, CMU, UIUC, etc.)</p>
<p>Thanks,
phpguru</p>
<p>Stanford EE accepts about 400 students per year and enroll 200, of which about 130 are MS/PhD or PhD-after-MS and 70 are MS. The average GPA is 3.9. Fellowships are given to the top 10%, and a few RAs are given to students whom the faculty are familiar with, but most admits do not receive initial funding.</p>
<p>Berkeley EECS enrolls 100 new MS/PhD students each year from a pool of about 3000 applications, and all are offered full funding (fellowship, RA, or TA).</p>
<p>UIUC ECE enrolls about 100 new MS/PhD students each year from a pool of 2000-2200, and about 90% are offered full funding. Average GPA is about 3.86.</p>
<p>I believe all 3 programs above have a thesis or non-thesis option, but almost everyone at Stanford does the non-thesis option.</p>
<p>im_blue, you mentioned before that the avg gpa is 3.9. I take it this is including the MS students?</p>
<p>Yes, the average is 3.9 for both MS and MS/PhD students.</p>
<p>When you say "ms/phd" do you mean students which are admitted to a PhD-track program immediately after bachelor's degree (and earn an intermediate MS) or do you mean all graduate students, both PhD-track and terminal-MS?</p>
<p>From what I've heard, full funding for student's whose terminal degree plan is a MS is a rarity - PhD-track students typically get much higher priority, everywhere.</p>
<p>Finally it is becoming very commonplace at PhD programs everywhere to simply not admit students who are not fully funded - this means that at most top PhD programs, nearly all students are fully funded. This is to cut down on the number of students who enter the program and complete several years before being forced out of school due to lack of money.</p>
<p>For Stanford EE, MS/PhD means BS graduates who want to get the MS and PhD, while MS means those who are only admitted to the MS program and cannot take the PhD Qualifying Exam. They started having two-track admissions to cut down on the number of Quals takers, which increases the passing rate.</p>
<p>For Berkeley and UIUC, MS/PhD students mean all new incoming grad students.</p>
<p>does anyone have these stats for Mechanical Engineers?</p>
<p>anyone at all?</p>