Evaluate your self for the MASTERS

Start evaluating your self and ink down your score as you go by each and every section

1. GRE: Rate yourself between 0-25 points Q+V 900:
11 PointsQ+V 1000: 13Points
Q+V 1100: 15 points
Q+V 1200: 17 points
Q+V 1250: 18 Points
Q+V 1300: 19 Points
Q+V 1300: 20 Points
Q+V 1400: 21 Points
Q+V 1400: 22 Points
Q+V 1500: 24 Points

2. Bachelors Score: Rate yourself between 0-25 points 
50% with backlogs 7 points
50% with out backlogs 9 points
60% with backlogs 11 points
60% with out backlogs 13 points
70% with backlogs 15 points
70% with out backlogs 17 points
75% with backlogs 15 points
75% with out backlogs 21 points
80% plus with out backlogs 23 points
University topper: 25

10th and 10+2 scores: 5 points
Scores Close to 60 % 2 points
Scores Close to 70 % 3 Points
Scores Close to 80 % 4 points
80 plus with some good background say some Quiz winners at national level; some Math Olympiad or Science fair winners: 5


TOEFL: 0-10
Score 200: 3 points
Score 220: 4 points
Score 240: 5 points
Score 250: 7 points
Score 260: 8 points
Score 270+: 9 points

Work Experience: 0-10 (3 points Minimum)
Good research and good projects =3-5
Working for funded projects=4-6
Summer Intern (below 6 months)=5-7
Real time Job experience 1 year=7-9


* To be honest its not the TIME it’s the Quality of the work that you do counts Many times; Like one good Project can get in to a very good school
Undergraduate research & tech papers 0-10 (3 points minimum)
Good research and good projects=3-5
Research with few technical papers=4-6
Technical papers at national level=5-7
International publications=7-9


Personal statement &Recommendation letters 0-5
Bad Sop - If a professor feels its copied SOP=0-1
Good SOP & good recommendation letters (from profs)=2-4
Good sop with a Reco letter form a guy whom you worked under or some person in the industry=3-5


Timing 0-5 

This depends on

• · When you apply and schools you apply!
  
• · How you apply – how many months before you apply
  
• · How you plan?
  

Your approach /attitude 0-5
This is very important; keep your cool and never bug professors- never use the word – I need funding and stuff – Instead say, “ I wish to work for you”. Don’t email them asking for GRE college codes, climate & stuff be professional.

• · Attitude is how good you Show your self and portray your self and
  
• · How good you can convince a Professor that you wish to work for him
  
• · Writing Skills
  

Now pick your schools
Just add your individual points and get the cumulative score
If you are planning for a PHD (not for AID but for passion) add 3 Points to your Cumulative Score.
Mechanical Engineering / Industrial Students add 3 points to it
Civil Engineering students add 5 points to it
Students with Non Engineering Back Group Such as Arts, Pathology, Drama, Anthropology, Speech therapy and some rare branches add 7 points to your cumulative score
Economy of the state was taken in to factor
If a state has mare schools then Less preference was given to those; because more competition
Some Factors/Assumptions taken in to Account
Getting financial support in a school is more important for a student than research at school or any thing
If two schools have similar rankings, the one with less number of International applicants each year is given Preference.
“Big Schools” Which offer many Courses are given good ranks as there is a chance for On campus jobs and Graduate Assistants (eg: University with Medical Campus will generate a lot of Jobs of Computer Science students Web Designing / Data Management Jobs)
Preference is given to places where a student can get Internships and Jobs
Places with less number of Indian students and Less number of Indians are given higher preference (reason: Less competition)
Other factors include Safety, Cost of Living, Climatic Condition, Geographic Location & better Living Conditions.
VISA issues based on a feedback from 500 students have been taken as a factor.
Tuition of the University was taken in to consideration and preference was given to one with low tuition
Schools run under State System and federal system were given preference to Private Universities

Note: This is just a list of schools you can apply if you have a cumulative score near to 90
& By no means indicate the rankings of the respective University.


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score near 90

Schools with cumulative score near 90

Massachusetts Institute of Technology                 www.mit.edu
Stanford University                                                       www.stanford.edu
University of California- Berkeley                           www.berkeley.edu
University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign         www.uiuc.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology                               www.gatech.edu
University of Michigan Ann Arbor                           www.umich.edu
Cornell University                                                         www.cornell.edu
University of California – San Diego                      www.ucsd.edu
California Institute of Technology                           www.caltech.edu
University of Texas at Austin                                     www.austin.edu
University of Wisconsin- Madison                           www.wisc.edu
Carnegie Mellon University                                        www.cmu.edu
University of Southern California                             www.usc.edu
University of California Los Angles                          www.ucla.edu
University of Maryland – College park                   www.umd.edu
Harvard University                                                        www.harvard.edu
Princeton University                                                      www.princeton.edu
Pennsylvania State University – Univ Park           www.psu.edu
Texas A & M College Station                                        www.tamu.edu
Purdue University – West Lafayette                         www.purdue.edu


 

score near 80

Schools with cumulative score near 80

Ohio State University                                    www.osu.edu
Duke University                                              www.duke.edu
Columbia University                                     www.columbia.edu
University of Washington – Seattle         www.washington.edu
University of Minnesota                              www.umn.edu
Yale University                                                www.yale.edu
John Hopkins University                            www.jhu.edu
Case Western Reserve University            www.cwru.edu
Brown university (RI)                                  www.brown.edu
Virginia poly Tech                                          www.vt.edu
North Carolina State University                www.ncsu.edu
Dartmouth College, NH                               www.dartmouth.edu
University of Pittsburgh                               www.pitt.edu
Iowa State University                                    www.iastate.edu
University of California- Santa Barbara www.ucsb.edu
Arizona State University                               www.asu.edu
Rutgers, State Univ of NJ, New Brunswick www.rutgers.edu
Rice University                                                www.rice.edu
University of Rochester                                www.rochester.edu
University of Virginia                                    www.virginia.edu
University of Pennsylvania                         www.upenn.edu
Northwestern University (IL)                    www.northwestern.edu
University of Delaware                                 www.udel.edu
Washington University St Louis               www.wustl.edu
University of California – Davis                www.ucdavis.edu
University of Colorado – Boulder            www.colorado.edu
Lehigh University (PA)                                www.lehigh.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)    www.rpi.edu
University of Florida ; Gainesville             www.ufl.edu
University of California - Irvine                 www.uci.edu
Michigan State University                            www.msu.edu

 

score near 70

               Schools for cumulative score near 70

University of Iowa                                                   www.uiowa.edu
Clemson University                                                www.clemson.edu
University of Massachusetts – Amherst         www.umass.edu
Kansas State University                                        www.ksu.edu
Vanderbilt University (TN)                                  www.vanderbilt.edu
University of Cincinnati                                        www.uc.edu
University of Alabama- Tuscaloosa                  www.ua.edu
University of Arizona-Tucson                            www.uarizona.edu
University of Notre Dame (IN)                          www.nd.edu
University of Chicago                                            www.uchicago.edu
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill     www.unc.edu
University of Utah                                                   www.utah.edu
Colorado School of Mines                                    www.mines.edu
University of Illinois at Chicago                         www.uic.edu
University of New Hampshire                            www.unh.edu
University of New Mexico                                    www.unm.edu
Boston University                                                   www.bu.edu
Colorado State University                                    www.colostate.edu
SUNY- stony brook                                                www.sunnysb.edu
University of Missouri – Rolla                           www.umr.edu
Auburn University                                                  www.auburn.edu
University of Buffalo                                              www.buffalo.edu
Drexel University                                                    www.drexel.edu
University of Akron                                                www.uakron.edu
Oregon State University                                        www.oregonstate.edu
University of South Carolina                              www.sc.edu
University of Kansas                                              www.ku.edu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute                        www.wpi.edu
University of Tennessee-Knoxville                   www.utk.edu

 

score near 65

Schools for cumulative score near 65

University of Connecticut                                  www.uconn.edu
University of Nebraska Lincoln                       www.unl.edu
University of Georgia                                           www.uga.edu
University of Missouri-Columbia                    www.mizzou.edu
West Virginia University                                     www.wvu.edu
Illinois Institute of Technology                        www.iit.edu
University of Miami                                              www.miami.edu
Tulane University                                                   www.tulane.edu
Indiana University - Bloomington                  www.indiana.edu
University of Texas – Dallas                              www.utdallas.edu
Ohio University – Athens                                   www.ohiou.edu
University of Houston –Houston                    www.uh.edu
Michigan technological University                  www.mtu.edu
University of Maine                                              www.umaine.edu
University of California – River Side              www.ucr.edu
University of Kentucky                                        www.uky.edu
Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge      www.lsu.edu
Oklahoma State University                                www.okstate.edu
George Washington University                         www.gwu.edu
University of Central Florida                             www.ucf.edu


 

score near 60

Schools for cumulative score near 60

University of Toledo                                    www.utoledo.edu
University of Memphis                               www.memphis.edu
University of Nevada Los Vegas              www.unlv.edu
Mississippi State university                       www.msstate.edu
University of Missouri, Kansas City       www.umkc.edu
Brigham Young University                         www.byu.edu
University of Oklahoma                              www.ou.edu
Syracuse University                                      www.syr.edu
Northern Illinois University                      www.niu.edu
University of Oklahoma                              www.ou.edu
University of New Orleans                         www.uno.edu
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science &Tech        www.ogi.edu
University of Indianapolis                                   www.uindy.edu
University of Nebraska Omaha                        www.unomaha.edu
University of South Florida- Tampa                www.usf.edu
Tennessee Technological University               www.tntech.edu
Texas Tech University                                          www.ttu.edu
University of Alabama-Huntsville                  www.uah.edu
Polytechnic University (NY)                              www.poly.edu
University of Idaho                                              www.uidaho.edu
Indiana University Purdue University          www.iupui.edu
University of Arkansas- Fayetteville               www.uark.edu
University of South Florida                              www.usf.edu
University of Louisiana-Lafayette                www.lousiana.edu
George Mason University                               www.gmu.edu
Washington State University                            www.wsu.edu
Georgia State University                                    www.gsu.edu

score near 55

Schools for cumulative score near 55

Old Dominion University, Virginia                   www.odu.edu
New Jersey Institute of Technology                www.njit.edu
Idaho State University                                          www.isu.edu
University of North Carolina-Charlotte         www.uncc.edu
New Mexico State University                             www.nmsu.edu
Wayne State University                                       www.wayne.edu
Wright State University                                       www.wright.edu
California State University , Sacramento      www.csus.edu
Missouri State University                                   www.missouristate.edu/
Florida Institute of Technology                        www.fit.edu
North Dakota State University                         www.ndsu.edu
University of Texas-Arlington                          www.uta.edu
Clarkson University                                             www.clarkson.edu
University of Tennessee Chattanooga          www.utc.edu
Portland state university                                    www.pdx.edu
University of Vermont                                        www.uvm.edu
University of Tampa                                            www.utampa.edu
Louisiana Tech. University                               www.latech.edu
Wichita State University                                     www.wichita.edu
Illinois State University , Normal                    www.ilstu.edu
University of Mississippi                                    www.olemiss.edu
Northeastern University                                     www.northeastern.edu
University of Tulsa                                               www.utulsa.edu
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville   www.siue.edu
University of Alaska- Fairbanks                       www.uaf.edu
Pace University, NY                                              www.pace.edu
Wright State University                                       www.wright.edu
Baylor University, Texas                                     www.baylor.edu
Chicago State University                                     www.csu.edu
South Dakota State University                          www.sdsu.edu
Villanova University                                             www.villanova.edu
Southern Illinois University , Carbondale    www.siuc.edu
East Carolina University                                     www.ecu.edu
University of North Texas                                  www.unt.edu
SUNY Institute of Technology                         www.sunyit.edu
University of Missouri at St Louis                   www.umsl.edu
University of Northern Iowa                             www.uni.edu

 

score near 50

Schools for cumulative score near 50

New Mexico Institute of Mining &Tech.                     www.nmt.edu
Northwest Missouri State University                           www.nwmissouri.edu/
University of Illinois at Springfield                               www.uis.edu
University of Louisville                                                     www.louisville.edu
Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs   www.coloradotech.edu
Montana State University , Bozeman                           www.montana.edu
North Carolina Agricultural & Tech State University www.ncat.edu
Lamar University                                                                   www.lamar.edu
Florida International university                                       www.fiu.edu
University of Bridgeport –CT                                            www.bridgeport.edu
St Cloud State University                                                    www.stcloudstate.edu
University of Dayton – Ohio                                              www.udayton.edu
Texas A & M university, Kingsville                                  www.tamuk.edu
Eastern Michigan University                                             www.emich.edu
City College of the City of New York                               www.cuny.edu
South Dakota School of Mines & technology              www.sdsmt.edu
Western Kentucky University                                          www.wku.edu
Boise State university, Idaho                                            www.boisestate.edu
University of Hawaii                                                             www.hawai.edu
University of Texas , Tyler                                                  www.uttyler.edu
University of Texas at San Antonio                                 www.utsa.edu
State University of West Georgia                                     www.westga.edu
Ball State University                                                             www.bsu.edu
Bradley University                                                                 www.bradley.edu
University of Texas El Paso                                                www.utep.edu
Columbus State University                                                www.colstate.edu
Arkansas State University                                                  www.astate.edu
Cleveland State University                                                 www.csuohio.edu
New York Institute of Technology                                   www.nyit.edu
California State University , Chico                                  www.csuchico.edu
Texas A & M University, Commerce                               www.tamu-commerce.edu/
Dakota State University                                                       www.dsu.edu
DePaul University                                                                 www.depaul.edu
Eastern Washington University                                      www.ewu.edu
Marquette University                                                          www.marquette.edu
North Dakota State University                                         www.nodak.edu
Southeastern University, DC                                            www.seu.edu
Southern Oregon University , Ashland                         www.sou.edu
North Dakota State University                                         www.ndsu.edu
Suffolk University, MA                                                       www.suffolk.edu
Temple University, PA                                                        www.temple.edu
University of Denver                                                            www.du.edu
University of North Carolina , Greensboro                  www.uncg.edu
University of West Florida , Pensacola                          www.uwf.edu

 

score near 40-50

Schools for cumulative score near 40-50

Alabama A & M University                                           www.aamu.edu
Minnesota State University , Mankato                     www.mnsu.edu
San Diego State University, California                      www.sdsu.edu/
Ball State University                                                        www.bsu.edu
Northeastern Illinois University                                 www.neiu.edu
University of Detroit Mercy                                         www.udmercy.edu
University of Arkansas Little Rock                            www.ualr.edu
California State University , Fresno                          www.csufresno.edu
Widener University, Pennsylvania                            www.widener.edu/
Alcorn State University                                                  www.alcorn.edu
Gannon University                                                          www.gannon.edu/
University of Findlay-Ohio                                          www.findlay.edu/
Farleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey           www.fdu.edu
State University of New York , Albany                    www.albany.edu
College of William & Mary                                           www.wm.edu
East Tennessee State University                                www.etsu.edu
Southwest Texas State University , San Marcos    www.swt.edu
Mc Neese State University                                            www.mcneese.edu
Oakland University                                                         www.oakland.edu
Sam Houston State University                                    www.shsu.edu
San Jose state University                                               www.sjsu.edu
William Patterson University                                       www.wpunj.edu
Western Carolina University                                        www.wcu.edu
University of Central Oklahoma                                  www.ucok.edu
Widener University                                                          www.widener.edu
University of St Thomas, MN                                       www.stthomas.edu
Western Illinois university                                            www.wiu.edu
Bowling Green State University, Ohio                       www.bgsu.edu
Delaware State University                                              www.desu.edu
Central Michigan University                                         www.cmich.edu
University of Southern Mississippi                             www.usm.edu
Indian University South Bend                                      www.iusb.edu
Saint Mary’s University San Antonio                         www.stmarytx.edu
Shippensburg University, PA                                        www.ship.edu
Kent State University                                                       www.kent.edu
State University of New York , New Paltz                 www.newpaltz.edu
Ferris State University                                                     www.ferris.edu
University of New Haven, CT                                        www.newhaven.edu
University of Texas , Pan America                               www.panam.edu


 

Scores Near 40

More Schools for Cumulative Score around 40

Saint Joseph University                                                   www.sju.edu
Chapman University                                                         www.chapman.edu
Clark Atlanta University                                                  www.cau.edu                
Frostburg State University                                              www.frostburg.edu
La Salle University, PA                                                     www.lasalle.edu
Duquesne University                                                        www.duq.edu
Georgia College & State University                              www.gcsu.edu
Georgia Southern University                                         www.georgiasouthern.edu
Golden Gate University                                                    www.ggu.edu
Jackson State University                                                 www.jsums.edu
Kennesaw State University                                             www.kennesaw.edu
Long Island University                                                     www.liu.edu
Loyola University Chicago                                              www.luc.edu
Northern Kentucky University                                      www.nku.edu
Oklahoma City University                                                www.ocu.edu
Southern New Hampshire University                         www.snhu.edu
California State University, Northridge                      www.csun.edu
Catholic University of America , Washington          www.cua.edu/
Ohio Dominican College (University), Ohio             www.ohiodominican.edu/
Ferris State University, Michigan                                 www.ferris.edu/
Fitchburg State University, MA                                     www.fsc.edu
Hawaii Pacific University, Hawaii                                 www.hpu.edu/
Northwood University, Michigan                                 www.northwood.edu/
Johnson and Wales University ,                                    www.jwu.edu/
Monmouth University-New Jersey                              www.monmouth.edu/
Governors State University , Parkway IL                    www.govst.edu/
Troy State University, Alabama                                      www.troyst.edu/
Stevens Institute of Technology                                     www.stevens-tech.edu
Roosevelt University Chicago                                         www.roosevelt.edu
Florida Atlantic University , Boca Raton                     www.fau.edu
Alfred University                                                                  www.alfred.edu
Drake university                                                                   www.drake.edu
Howard University                                                              www.howard.edu