ROI for a MSc ???

[french_fries]

Hi all,

I graduated years ago with a Master degree in computer engineering from a French university and I have 4 and a half years of experience, including 18 months in the USA.

I really appreciated working there and I also admired a lot of universities I visited (the UC, Ivy Leagues).

I may consider getting into a MSc program in this country but the fact that good schools are very expensive (at least 30K/year for a good public school for a non resident) frightens me a bit.

I also know that it is rare to get into that program and most students go get a job right after they graduate.

I was wondering, what kind of school I can reach that would give me a decent ROI ? I got a 3.7 GPA (after converting from the French system), I can get letters of recommendations from academics and managers I worked for.

I also did a GRE with 780 in quant and 660 in verbal.

Is that a burden to get loans in that field ?

I am interested in computer engineering applied to data mining, or even parallel programming

Thank you very much !

[Amogh]

On 10/5/2010 at 11:30 PM, french_fries said:

Hi all,

I graduated years ago with a Master degree in computer engineering from a French university and I have 4 and a half years of experience, including 18 months in the USA.

I really appreciated working there and I also admired a lot of universities I visited (the UC, Ivy Leagues).

I may consider getting into a MSc program in this country but the fact that good schools are very expensive (at least 30K/year for a good public school for a non resident) frightens me a bit.

I also know that it is rare to get into that program and most students go get a job right after they graduate.

I was wondering, what kind of school I can reach that would give me a decent ROI ? I got a 3.7 GPA (after converting from the French system), I can get letters of recommendations from academics and managers I worked for.

I also did a GRE with 780 in quant and 660 in verbal.

Is that a burden to get loans in that field ?

I am interested in computer engineering applied to data mining, or even parallel programming

Thank you very much !

Are you interested in research or in getting a terminal masters degree? what i mean to say is that will you be taking up a MS by coursework or by research?

[french_fries]

Are you interested in research or in getting a terminal masters degree? what i mean to say is that will you be taking up a MS by coursework or by research?

Hi,

Thanks for you reply.

I am more interested by a practical master to work for a private company.

Do you have some experience of it as a foreigner ?

Regards.

[Amogh]

Hi,

Thanks for you reply.

I am more interested by a practical master to work for a private company.

Do you have some experience of it as a foreigner ?

Regards.

Hey, no i am sorry i dont have any experience of this as a foreigner sadly. however, i guess the same would apply to both foreigners and locals if you were to get a job and settle down for a while in the usa. in which case the roi in a traditional sense is initially around 6%. This is what i read on some site so i'm not really sure. look around the internet for some starting payscales and see for yourself.

[krok]

I worked with the federal govt years ago placing international students in top STEM (Science, tech, engineering, math) grad programs around the country. The rate of return is pretty good for the top programs (if you manage to get some funding) though you definitely want to look at ones that are professional track, and very few of those offer funding. I know for instance that the INI at Carnegie Mellon has excellent placement stats and they offer partial funding (up to 50%). They are an engineering/CS program that has a partial business curriculum in their programs. You might want to look at them. The Associate Director of the department is French (Nicolas Christin) and I am sure if you emailed him he would be willing to give you some advice. I don't know what area of CE you like, but it seems these programs do mostly networking, security, mobility and software engineering.

[french_fries]

I worked with the federal govt years ago placing international students in top STEM (Science, tech, engineering, math) grad programs around the country. The rate of return is pretty good for the top programs (if you manage to get some funding) though you definitely want to look at ones that are professional track, and very few of those offer funding. I know for instance that the INI at Carnegie Mellon has excellent placement stats and they offer partial funding (up to 50%). They are an engineering/CS program that has a partial business curriculum in their programs. You might want to look at them. The Associate Director of the department is French (Nicolas Christin) and I am sure if you emailed him he would be willing to give you some advice. I don't know what area of CE you like, but it seems these programs do mostly networking, security, mobility and software engineering.

Thank you for your advice (I reply very late). I will check that.