Dream, target and safe universities for Fall23 (MS CS or MS DS)

Question

College: Vellore Institute of Technology
CGPA: 9.54
GRE: 325
Work Exp: Software Engineer at Cisco (6 months intern and then 2 years full time exp) (Data Engineer + SDE)
Research: 1 national paper
Projects: 5 
Courses: 10

Smoky zz · Answer

Hi Lakshay
you have good enough profile to qualify for most of the top CS programs but the deciding factor for your profile will be on the basis of Your SOP's and Resume
Colleges you can apply before priority deadline are - 
Ambitious
1. CMU
2. UIUC
3. UT Austin
4. UCB

Target
1. Purdue
2. DUKE
3. USC
4. UWM

Safe
1. UC Irvine/Davis
2. ASU
3. NEU
4. Virginia Tech
5. Stony

or
https://yocket.com/college-finder
use this tool to get a comprehensive list of colleges for Your profile Based on difficulty of admits on the lines of ambitious, Target and Safe. where ambitious is less than 10-20 % chances for admit , Target is 20-60% chances for admit and Safe is more than 60% chances for admit

Zeal Zeal · Answer

You can target all top universities for MS in CS. Try UCSD, Gatech, Purdue, Virginia tech, Stony Brook, Umass Amherst, UMCP, USC, NYU Tandon, Rutgers, NCSU, UC IRVINE. TAMU college station prefers IIT, BITS so less chance.

Lakshay Arora · Answer

Thanks Tilak, I would prefer US as the country

Tilak Heble · Answer

Hey, Lakshay!!
         You have good profile with greya CGPA and GRE score. You may need to write IELTS. You have good work experience , research papers, projects and courses.

As you have not mentioned destination country and your profile as 3 preferred countries so iam suggesting universities for UK

For UK
1. University of Sheffield
2. University of Glasgow
3. Lancaster University
4. University of Bath
5. Londal imperial College

Hope this helps you!!

Dream, target and safe universities for Fall23 (MS CS or MS DS)

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