Siddharth_Sharma

Is Maryland considered a good grad school for Biological Physics?

Hi, I have the same story. Transferred to MEng after rejection from the PhD program. I am from India and had some research in my masters from Indian Institute of Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3700226). I thought I had a strong application but not to be. What I am concerned about specifically along with the heavy cost that I cannot afford is how selective are they about MEng. Does everyone who is not admitted to the PhD get an MEng offer. I mean they would not expect a 100% strike rate with the offers. For instance in India, the best and the most competitive business degree costs 24 lakh rupees and that leads to offers much better than what an engineering degree would. With an MEng being close to 30 L, I wonder if the job centric crowd would give this a chance over say a good B school in their country (this includes US) or another masters degree in chemical engineering which is much lighter on the pocket. I compare the two as MENg by definition is a practice degree. I want to do a PhD from Cornell but now that seems to be something I just thought about once. It would be appreciated if I could be guided about the possibility of financial aid for MEng. I am not ignoring the reply above but in the congratulatory (proverbial) mail, I was told that my financial aid decision would be communicated to me by 15th of March and since I don't have it yet, in a way this is an endorsement of the above reply. Thanks for reading.