Need help in shortlisting universities

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Need help in shortlisting universities
My profile:
Planning for fall 2023
Cgpa: 6.84(can become 6.9 or 7 after this sem result)
Branch: Aerospace
Aiming for: DS and DA
GRE: 318 
IELTS: gonna take next week and can expect 7 and above
Work ex: Interned at cognizant and gonna work there
for an year
Extracurriculars: have a YouTube channel where I
teach coding
4 star coder at codechef and have done many
certifications
I'm really worried wheather I can shift my majors or
not and need your help in shortlisting universities

sourav sankpal · Answer

Hey Varun, you can definitely shift majors. Your work experience and extracurriculars would certainly help you. But you need to explain it in your SOP very well. But also yeah CGPA and your undergraduate degree matters a lot. Like I have seen people from Computer related branch and 9 cgpa get really good universities and people from non CS branches and less cgpa even with really good work ex and projects than the CS people struggle a lot. But dont get demotivated focus on your SOP and you would certainly get a good university.

I would recommend few good Universities where students with similar academic and work profile have got into.

For DS
-Indiana at Bloomington
-North eastern
-University at Buffalo

I dont have much idea on DA, but I believe you could get better universities for DA as DS is little more competitive than DA

All the best!

Varun Sripad · Answer

Thank you so much sourav

Mayank Garg · Answer

Hi,
I shortlisted Some Unis for you CGPA=7 and IELTS=7

Ambitious Universities
1)Stevens Institute of Technology(MS Data Science-18 months)
2)New Jersey Institute of Technology(MS Data Science-null months)
3)George Mason University(MS Data Analytics Engineering-24 months)
4)Illinois Institute of Technology(MAS Data Science-24 months)
5)Arizona State University(MS Program Evaluation and Data Analytics-24 months)

Target Universities
1)University of Alabama at Birmingham(MSDS Data Science-24 months)
2)University of Alabama at Birmingham(MSDS Data Science-18 months)
3)University of Miami(MS Data Science-18 months)
4)Florida International University(Master Data Science-18 months)
5)Drexel University(MS Data Science-24months)
6)University of Central Florida(MS Data Analytics-Might vary)

Safe Universities 
1)Michigan Technological University(MS Data Science-12 months)
2)University of Denver(MS Data Science-24 months)
3)University of Denver(MS Data Science-24 months)
4)Texas Tech University(MS Data Science-12 months)

You can even Shortlist Universities Yourself by using the Yocket Tool Called college Finder 
It provides the Shortlisting in 3 Ways (Safe,Target and Ambitious) 
Link:-https://yocket.com/college-finder

If you need any other help,
Please feel free to reach out to me.