<p>I am about to finish my undergrad in mechanical engineering from a reputed university in India. My profile looks ordinary with little research work and grade point average of 7.5/10. My GRE and TOEFL scores are 325 and 113 respectively. I have two LORs from my professors. This is a fairly ordinary profile and I am very confused as to which colleges should I apply. </p>
<p>I am interested in Mechanical/Aerospace industry. Purdue/UPenn/Michigan look very very ambitious. What are other good universities that I should apply to?</p>
<p>Georgia tech is a very good school check it out. Its mechanical and aerospace engineering masters programs are very spectacular. My dad earned his masters computer systems engineering there. Please read my threads!</p>
<p>Thanks for quick reply
I don’t know much about how masters work in the US. Can you elaborate a bit more about thesis and non-thesis masters programs? I want to go into R&D after my masters, so 'm guessing a thesis MEng would be better.<br>
I just mentioned GRE and TOEFL because I wanted to know what all universities I can get with this student profile.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is indeed a great place to study, but getting an admit there is pretty difficult. I’m definitely considering applying there. Let’s hope for the best. :)</p>
<p>I’d love to chance you for Purdue, UPenn, GA Tech or UMI, but chancing for thesis MS programs is incredibly murky. I wonder how would a 7.5/10 from an Indian undergraduate program stacks up against US undergraduate GPAs, but even so, I will not be able to do much more even with that info at hand.</p>
<p>An American thesis MS program involves less coursework but you have to do research in order to graduate (9 credits at Purdue). By nature it is more oriented towards R&D and the scientific aspect of engineering. Meanwhile, a non-thesis MS is more geared towards entry into the workforce and does not require research. Plus, for most students, a non-thesis MS is shorter than a thesis one, due to the unpredictable nature of the research activities. Personally I think a thesis MS can likely hold more weight down the road, especially R&D.</p>
<p>If you wanted to go to Polytechnique instead to do an AeroE or MechE thesis MS program you do 15 credits’ worth of graduate courses rather than 21, but the thesis would then be worth 30 credits rather than 9. In that sense it’s more like a mini-PhD than at Purdue.</p>
<p>Cgpa would be 3+ on the scale of 4. I’ll be using WES for conversion. Based on experience of friends, 'm guessing it.
I want to do full-course MS program offered in the US. My doubt is that with the above mentioned profile, what all universities should I apply to? I don’t want to apply to universities that are extremely ambitious and unrealistic to get into, with my profile. Application forms are kinda costly, so.</p>
