Yes. Of Course there are students from different backgrounds who are studying computer science with you and I think the whole purpose of information system is to allow students from different backgrounds to enter computer science. Along with me, I had people from biotech, I had people from financial background as well. It does make entering the school difficult because you need to really prove that you are motivated to apply for degree which is kind of tangential from what you have studied so far. But if you do have work experience in the field that reincrease your point, why do you want to do computer science. It is definitely not difficult but if you have ways and means to justify in your case, work experience it does hike your case. Unfortunately I donât have any statistical ratio on that.
To answer the first part, no I donât think it is leading towards session, assuming the job market referring to is for computer science or machine learning or related roles. And how difficult it was, I would say it does require some effort but if you have the skillset and if you have learnt it when your at school,you can prove that during your interview process, it will be pretty seamless. But it requires effort in terms of being able to get that interview. To describe the process little bit there are many avenues, one is on campus job fairs, they are not helpful. I would say to the contrary I had 4 offers at the end of graduation, in that 3 offers was from CMUâs on campus job fairs. It wasnât like I got the offer at the job fair but it started from there. Second is, building up your personal network. You donât need to go above and beyond to build a network, just if you keep doing your best at work and at school, people will notice it and they will always be ready to help you whenever you need anything. Whether you need a plan for an internship, or just approach in that perspective. Third avenue is linden. When I say linden, I specifically refer to your alumni from the school you are in , because they tend to be very helpful in the whole process. So these are the 3 main avenues for looking internships or jobs.
I donât fully understand what is meant by separate domains, if your referring to two separate specializations within the same program or if your referring to two separate programs within the same school. Switching between specializations is very easy. And you can transfer credits as well but I donât know whether you can transfer from one program to another and how easy that would be. But one important consideration is that when you apply to a program do see the program structure, how many units are allowed to be taken from mandatory or predetermined and how many units of courses can be taken as optional and left up to you. CMU does a great job of affording flexibility to you to take more than 50% of the units, im talking about the MIS program from any of the other schools and that allows me to take courses from departments from the public policy school, humanities school which is something that really helped me to learn different aspects that I wanted to do so.
Since I started my degree in fall of 2016, and of course now the fee structure have been restructured, typically for CMUâs information systemâs pack, the tuition was 80000 US dollars and I would say another 10-15 thousand dollars for your personal expenses would be the total out of pocket expense.
Each application is read by the admissions committee and I personally donât know what made them pick my application or the statement of purpose. I would definitely say not only SOP/ not only your academics, itâs a combination of everything. Your entire profile put together. Just one thing I would like to retell which I said at the beginning, especially when it comes to the SOP/ personal statement make sure that its unique to you, donât take help from any of the outsource. Do realise that, they are also helping thousands of other students and there bias tends to come in and at the end of the day just be honest with your statement of purpose. It really helps to be true and honest about what you want and what you have done so far. And anyone can look especially the admission committee as they get so many applications everyday and they can look right through your statement of purpose. So just keep that in mind.
That was a good question. I myself was pretty confused between those two when I started off, just to differentiate between the two programs briefly, cs will always be focussed on fundamentals of computer science , will be very technical but you will also have schools that offer cs programs with lots of flexibility that allows you to take courses from different schools. On the other hand, information systems is a broad introduction to a variety of courses and domains like finance, computer science, economics, and its important to realise that it depends whether your information system program is offered from the school of business or from school of computer science. It tends to be more technical if its from the school of computer science or technical schools and more lenient if its from the business schools. Itâs good to always have in mind and check the curriculum , check what courses are mandated as a part of the program and what courses are optional, how much flexibility it offers you. Now coming to the career growth opportunities, based on how you decide to telemake your program and what courses you decide to take during your degree. You can decide what to choose after you graduate. So since the time you get in, try to explore courses, try to figure out what you really want to do. Because I have seen people who did information systems and are in pure software engineering and people who did cs working in something like financial modelling. So itâs completely up to you. I would say, just try to explore your interest and figure out what you want.
Given with the recent years of the advent of this field, of course there are a lot of opening but there are also too many people who are looking for jobs. But itâs easy to differentiate between someone who knows the fundamentals and coming from a very strong technical background vs someone who has just picked up a professional degree in the field. His / her understanding will be very superficial. Itâs not tough if your good at it. Try to focus on the fundamentals.
If you ask me that question I would say even 2 years is less. Because the learning experience that you have been studying at a good institution is incredible and honestly I felt that 2 years is also not enough so I would recommend you to go for a 2 year course because 12 months or 16 months is a very short time for you to move to a new country, settle in, start learning and understand what itâs like.so I would say typically go for a 2 year course. If you emphasis on a strong learning experience, of course other benefits like it gives you more time to settle in, to look for a job, to look for an internship. And so I would definitely recommend a 2 year program.
I would say that shouldnât be your deciding factor. Although you have done your bachelors in computer science, it is a strong base for someone to enter into sciences.so keep that option open, donât decide against applying for something that you really want to do. Because your bachelors is in computer science, I think itâs a perfect match.
Speaking about SOP, I initially wrote the first draft after that I got feedback on it from my friends who were already studying abroad. And whoever I think the right person to get feedback from. And I just kept reediting my SOP until I was happy with that, until the proof reads, the feedback is close to zero. Itâs always good to have a generic sort of version of your SOP and for every school you apply and try to always kind of match your motivation and purpose to the school , why you want to choose that school particularly. Again try to be as honest as possible. And for LORâs again I wrote the first draft, got sent to all my recommenders went back and forth a couple of times before I had the final approval and signatures and endorsements on those letters.
Thank you for the responses Hardik
I would say it often depends on the schools that offers the program, for information management and CS as well. For CS, how much flexibility the program offers. Job opportunities depends again on what you make of your time value there.
CMUâs computer vision program is offered through robotics institute which is a part of the school of computer science. Itâs a very competitive program I would say. It has great faculties in fact. To get a better idea about what your prospects are I would say try to look up profiles of alumni from the same program, even try to reach out to alumni to get an idea of where you stand. When you say 2 research papers, thatâs not enough information for me to give suggestions to you. I think you should reach out to alumni.
@Jib_Ran
I donât fully recollect what were the documents I showed as a proof of savings for Prodigy.
Iâm sorry I donât recollect what I showed as proof of savings and what was the amount they expect you to show.
As per the Indian lenders are concerned, they can even accept any of your property. You just show the evaluation of the property, they can accept that as a proof of saving especially PSUâs and banks. Loan banking financial companies in India usually donât require proof of fund or savings. So if you have any problems related to it you can get in touch with one of our counsellors, they can suggest with specific solution to this particular problem.
Unfortunately I do not have any idea about the ETIM program. I would suggest you to reach out to people from ETIM for this.
The GRE is only used as a baseline for the application, itâs never used as a selection criteria. What I mean is your GRE score wonât get you admit, it will only prevent you from getting rejected. I cannot answer the chances regarding the GRE scores and years of work experience. Even if I know your full academic profile its difficult. I mean at most you can look at the previous students profile and see where you stand. Itâs very difficult to come up with probability. There are 3 sorts of tracks of information systems. One is 12 month, which requires a minimum of 2 years work experience. I did the one which is a 21 month track and that doesnât require explicit work experience. Average GRE scores would be around 320. There are of course outliers.
Iâm sorry I donât know about robotics program at WPI. CMUâs robotics institute was one of the first in the country. Itâs very reputed. I did take a couple of courses from there while I was at CMU. Thatâs really a good program. I donât know about the WPI.
A generalised advice, I would say at east coast if you look at hubs like New York, you will have a lot of tech consulting related jobs and lot of finance related jobs and companies like IBM are there in new york. There Is an other region of boston, the greater boston where there are startups and a lot of tech companies as well⌠Another region I would say is that North Carolina rally region which has also got a good density of jobs. Those are the 3 main reasons in the east coast. For the west coast, there is san francisco bay area ciatral acknort where you have most of the headquarters and you will have most upcoming startups and well established tech companies, thatâs how itâs laid out.
I would say go with the reputation, but if two universities have got same reputation then choose the one with better job opportunities in and around the area. As you specifically mentioned Embedded Systems, there is Arizona area which has got Intel and they hire a lot of people.
Yes, most of the schools are pretty flexible in offering you a summer semester internship or even taking another fall semester to continue your internship but it very much depends on your program and school, so I would say you have to reach out to them if you have any plans of doing this.
Iâm not sure on this question. I wouldnât agree with it. I would say not really. But I am not the right person to answer this.
Aman
It actually depends on the amount of loan you take, usually what we have seen in our database is that you can extent the moratorium period from the Indian banks and do your PhD or pay it by going for jobs for 2-3 years before joining PhD. It depends on banks to banks. Itâs very difficult to do but the option is there.