IIT, GUWAHATI

INSTITUTE TALK ON GRADUATE STUDIES CSE MECHANICAL CIVIL

Shobhit Chaurasia Ashish Chaudhari Bhavesh Shrimali

Nitin Chandra Badam Shohin Mukherjee Mukesh Ramancha

Rahul Huilgol Ramnath Vijaykumar Meda Vinay Teja

Puru Rastogi Dasmeet Singh Gandhi

DESIGN Shivapuram Raghavendra

Safinah Ali

Nishant Kandoi

ECE/EEE

Harshit Gupta Gagandeep Singh

Ravi Shankar Amodh Kant Saxena

Kshitiz Gupta Harsha Vardhan

Mayank Sardana Sumeet Singh

CHEMISTRY PHYSICS

Arvind Sekar Shreyas Jalnapurkar

Why graduate studies?

How to apply? Specifically the various requirements

Where to apply?

FAQs

Alumni List

Difference between undergraduate studies and graduate studies

What degrees can you apply for? MS only

MS + PhD (or sometimes a direct PhD)

MEng

Future prospects

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Online applications Generally applications are open in

August/September

End in December/January

Sending your GRE/TOEFL score via ETS

Sending official transcripts (harcopy) to the university

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Decent CPI

Statement of Purpose

Letters of Recommendation

Personal History Statement

GRE/TOEFL/IELTS

Resume

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Credit Card

Passport

Transcripts (sealed)

Lots of money and patience

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Though not a strict requirement these things sure do strengthen your application Good projects/internships

Good relations with your professors

Technical papers/posters

In short making most of your IIT experience is what that counts

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Word/character limit

What all things to include

Review from seniors

Must be exclusive to you and the university you are applying

Nothing fake!

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Very few universities ask for this UCB, Stanford

How does your family background, non academic experiences motivate you for grad studies?

Your voluntary activities

Challenges you faced Monitory, social, etc.

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When should I approach professor?

Let the professor himself write for you

Industrial recommendation versus university recommendation

Sometimes more than 3!

Sometimes professors limit number of recommendations Ask them about this well in advance!

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GRE Verbal (>=150)

Quantitative (>=165)

TOEFL Overall score >= 100

Section wise

try getting >= 25

especially speaking section

IELTS

How to send your scores to the universities?

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Upper bound on application cost Around 175$ per university (approx. 9000 rupees)

Including sending your GRE/TOEFL /IELTS scores and sending transcripts by post

If applying for around 10 universities, you would be spending around Rs. 80000-90000

Yes you can apply to less if you have limited budget but make sure your university choices are judiciously done in that case

Credit card

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Passport Apply early

Transcripts If applying to 10 universities, issue around 15

sealed transcripts

Resume Pdf not more than 3 pages

Advisable to make an online resume on a website

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CPI matters Being one of Department rankers is even better

For those having a low CPI do not worry! Try to do good projects in good universities in your

internships

Good work in BTPs also helps

Letters of recommendation, projects and a good GRE/TOEFL score are things you should focus

You could consider including non US universities like those in Canada, Europe and Asia (list is mentioned later in this ppt)

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How many professors are working in the area of your interest

Based on a database of where were seniors having profile similar to yours were admitted

Keep some safe, some realistic and some dream choices in your list

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Money is a factor Which universities give funding even for masters?

PhD applicants will generally get funding

Canada (MS students stand a good chance to be offered with funding)

NTU/NUS/Hong Kong (HKPFS)/Korean universities

European universities

ETH, EPFL, TUs, KTH,

Location (example - California is expensive!)

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Generally people working in try to get in Biomedical Signal Processing :

Communication : Stanford, UCB, UIUC, UT Austin, Toronto, EPFL, UCSD, Virginia Tech

Image : CMU, MIT CCG/CSAIL, Stanford, ETH, UCSD, University of Toronto, UIUC, MSU

VLSI : .

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Dont be adamant about US Canadian universities like Toronto, UBC, McGill,

Waterloo, Alberta are good

European universities like TUs, ETH, EPFL

NTU/NUS, Korean universities

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How necessary is to have publications?

Timeline Browse university websites to find professors and

research groups working in the area of your interest

August

Issue transcripts

August / September

GRE/TOEFL/IELTS

6th sem (March) or 7th sem (September 1st week)

SOP

August, September, October

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Timeline (continued) When to ask professors regarding recos

September

Filling the online application forms

Start in October end / November beginning

Submit before deadline

Posting the transcripts

DHL takes 1 week (5 working days)

Speed post takes up to 1 month!

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http://ogs.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/graduate-admissions/admissions-procedures/what-you-need-to-apply/statement-of-purpose.html

http://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/application_help.shtml

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Civil Engineering: (Structures) Bhavesh Shrimali: Stanford, U-Michigan, UIUC, Purdue,

Northwestern, HKUST Meda Vinay Teja: Purdue, GATech Mukesh Ramancha: UCSD, GATech

Civil Engineering: (Transportation) Dasmeet Singh Gandhi: UIUC, UT Austin

Mechanical Engineering Ashish Chaudhari: Northwestern, Purdue Parth Paritosh: Purdue Shohin Mukherjee: CMU S. Ragahvendra: UCSD (PhD) Kaushal Kamal Jain: Purdue Harsh Ranjan: Purdue

Computer Science and Engineering: Akshay Jajoo: Purdue (PhD) Shobhit Chaurasia: UCSD, UT Austin Rahul Huilgol: UT Austin B. Nitin Chandra: CMU Abhinav B. : UCSD

ECE: Gagandeep Singh Bagha: U Toronto Harshavardhan Pokolla: CMU, ETH Zurich Kshitiz Gupta: UT Austin, Purdue, Rajarshi Chattopadhyay: NUS (PhD) Mayank Sardana: University of Pittsburgh (Data Sc.)

bhaveshTypewritten Text* This list is updated as per information available to SAB. There may be many more admits and that shall be intimated to all in due course of time. Please consider consulting your Department Seniors to get pertaining information.