Ohio State University - Electrical Engineering

[ibangz]

Has anyone heard about their funding distribution?

[spunk]

I am exactly in the same situation. I've contacted a faculty member about 1 month ago, he said that the decisions will me made in a few weeks. However, I still haven't heard either from him or from ESL. But I've found a statistics about graduate funding in OSU, and it said that %95 of the first year graduate students are funded somehow (GRA, GTA, GAA etc.). So, don't need to loose hope, but I'm still concerned. If you hear anything please let me know.

Also have you tried to mail the secretary? I was thinking about doing it but I am scared that it may effect my chances.

[ibangz]

I am exactly in the same situation. I've contacted a faculty member about 1 month ago, he said that the decisions will me made in a few weeks. However, I still haven't heard either from him or from ESL. But I've found a statistics about graduate funding in OSU, and it said that %95 of the first year graduate students are funded somehow (GRA, GTA, GAA etc.). So, don't need to loose hope, but I'm still concerned. If you hear anything please let me know. Also have you tried to mail the secretary? I was thinking about doing it but I am scared that it may effect my chances.

Nice to see your post. This is the answer I got on March 15th from a faculty member that told me on January 12th "I will keep you in mind":

The university fellowships have been made, so you would have heard something by now. We have not made GRA offers yet, but I can tell you that not many offers will be made this year due to low funding levels. To be very frank with you, I think very few, if any, GRA offers will be made to non-US applicants. You should probably consider other options at this point.

Sorry for the bad news.

As for the GTA's I got this from someone called "Graduate Program Coordinator":

GTA positions are assigned after the first quarter on campus.

I don't know what you mean by "secretary". Do you mean Molly Wambold, Assistant to Director? I email her too and got nothing. So I guess I killed last tinge of chances I had and don't think stand much chances anymore I hope you good luck anyway.

As for the statistics find ECE annual reports for 2003, 6, 8, 9 and 10:

http://ece.osu.edu/s...e/annual_10.pdf

http://ece.osu.edu/s...e/annual_09.pdf

http://ece.osu.edu/s...e/annual_08.pdf

http://ece.osu.edu/s...e/annual_06.pdf

http://ece.osu.edu/s...e/annual_03.pdf

In particular I put together student stats for 2008 to 2010 which is interesting to see:

http://www.mediafire...6hwt229oo91udv4

Any thoughts?

Edited March 17, 2011 by ibangz

[spunk]

To be honest, I feel pretty depressed right now. It's not your fault anyways F*** the economical crisis, if those high income "economy" guys were doing their job properly, maybe we would have a chance to spend the next 5-6 years of life with minimum sleep and eating disorders. Now, i feel like I've spent the last four years of my life for nothing. FML.

[ibangz]

To be honest, I feel pretty depressed right now. It's not your fault anyways F*** the economical crisis, if those high income "economy" guys were doing their job properly, maybe we would have a chance to spend the next 5-6 years of life with minimum sleep and eating disorders. Now, i feel like I've spent the last four years of my life for nothing. FML.

Sorry to hear that dude! Well I don't know what to say now, but I'm kind of confused by this crisis thing. If the situation is so bad why ESL has made a new building with $7.3 milion budget, then? Where did they get all that money from?