Posted by: GP November 15, 2007
Engineering University Search!
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Consider Virginia Tech. Georgia Tech, UCLA, CalTech, NorthWestern, ...

UC Berkley, ...MIT, Princeton, .... if you get admission there, your future is secured.

Any State University would be fine if your goal is to work in US industry. Majority of Professors in USA, under whom you would like to have PhD work, will support graduate student's tuition fees and bottomline living expenses  so that the student is productive. If the Professor can not support your tuition fees, then that Professor is not worth for being your advisor. That is it, so simple. Well, if your goal is to land here, you can go elsehwere where don't need GRE as well.

Note that there are some professors who ask you to work in his project, and your PhD research work might be your out of such daily paid work, and you might get upset / crazy / frustrated / and give up at the end of the day. Such professors might count your minutes by minutes: Usually, they want you to work 2 to 3 times of the time you are actually paid. They assume that you are 30-50% efficient. I remember one professor saying, "there are many poor students in Asia who wants to work free of charge, just offer them a space." Such mentality exists amongh professors in majority of state universities. So, be prepared for such nightmare.

Good Luck.

GP

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