<p>Hello everybody!
I am currently a senior AE student at Wichita State, from Brazil and I am going to graduate next Spring. I know for fact that i want to get a Masters in AE, and that i am gonna go straight to grad school after i get my degree. I have a 3.48, which i know is not great, but is not bad as well. My question is, if I go to Europe to get my masters(UK, more specifically), would my chances of getting a job in the USA after? If so, with my GPA, and having one internship, are there any good(doesn't need to be a top 5) school that would accept me into their masters program? One last question: i got an internship this summer back home, in a mechanical engineering position. Would that help me or hurt me after i graduate?
I know these are a lot of questions, but I am trying to decide my future, and any input would be awesome.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Your GPA is not a detriment to grad school acceptance. Engineering GPAs are usually on the lower end.
Try getting some research experience. Grad schools like that more than internships. 1 internship won’t get you into the very best, but you should be fine otherwise.
A UK degree isn’t a killer, but US are preferable. All else held equal, US is better, but if you don’t want to pay the cost of an American grad school, UK is still pretty good.
No, an internship in another field should help you, actually. Engineers have a fair bit of movement along the various fields, and relevant experience could only help.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input! I want to go to the UK because one of my dreams is to work as an aerodynamics engineer in a F1 team, but since this job is so limited, i wanna make sure that if i want to go back to the USA and work for Cessna, Learjet, etc…, im gonna have a chance to get a job. And good to know that my internship will help me, even though is not on Aerospace Eng. per se. I was kinda concerned maybe companies would look at it in a negative way. But thanks again</p>
<p>Perhaps imperial, in the uk</p>
<p>Look at the league rankings for 2013 for engineering</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. Does anybody knows if I have a shot to be accepted with my stats at a Grad school such as Texas A&M or so?</p>