Confused between ASU and north-eastern university. Which will be better for a MS CS- Machine Learning/ Data Science profile? My profile summary is as follows: University - DA-IICT, Gandhinagar

Degree- BTech ICT(intended to be a mix of Computer Science, Electronics and Communication) with minor in Computational Science

MS target- Preferably MS in ML or Data Science.

CPI - 9.23/10 Rank 7/300.

Topper's CPI - 9.7 GRE Score - 331 [Q 164 V 167] (is my quant score a bit low for great universities?)

TOEFL- 115/120

Research interest- Machine Learning. Have been on projects for the past 1.5 years.

Chief projects- 1. Time series prediction and using memory enhanced, metacognitive RBF network Key words- time series, neural networks, metacognition

2. Diagnosing ADHD (a child neurological disorder) from brain MRI scans using RBM's, a deep neural network. Key words- neuro-image classification, RBM's

Research Internships- 1. 3rd Year Summer Internhip- NTU- Singapore. Worked on Proj 1 mentioned above 2.

I will return to NTU to complete my BTech project.

3. A remote internship with the same Prof last year. Proj 2 above 4. 2 year summer internship- DAIICT (Worked on developing algorithms for DNA data storage).