Get to know how to select the best university
GRE: Rate yourself between 0-25 points
Q+V 900: 11 Points
Q+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
70% with out backlogs 17 points
50% with out backlogs 9 points
75% with backlogs 15 points
60% with backlogs 11 points
75% with out backlogs 21 points
60% with out backlogs 13 points
80% plus with out backlogs 23 points
70% with backlogs 15 points
University topper: 25
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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?
9. 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.
Schools with cumulative score near 90
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - www.mit.edu
2. Stanford University - www.stanford.edu
3. University of California- Berkeley - www.berkeley.edu
4. University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign - www.uiuc.edu
5. Georgia Institute of Technology - www.gatech.edu
6. University of Michigan Ann Arbor - www.umich.edu
7. Cornell University - www.cornell.edu
8. University of California – San Diego- www.ucsd.edu
9. California Institute of Technology - www.caltech.edu
10. University of Texas at Austin - www.austin.edu
11. University of Wisconsin- Madison - www.wisc.edu
12. Carnegie Mellon University - www.cmu.edu
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13. University of Southern California- www.usc.edu
14. University of California Los Angles - www.ucla.edu
15. University of Maryland – College park - www.umd.edu
16. Harvard University - www.harvard.edu
17. Princeton University - www.princeton.edu
18. Pennsylvania State University –Univ Park - www.psu.edu
19. Texas A & M College Station - www.tamu.edu
20. Purdue University –West Lafayette - www.purdue.edu
Schools with cumulative score near 80
21. Ohio State University - www.osu.edu
22. Duke University - www.duke.edu
23. Columbia University - www.columbia.edu
24. University of Washington – Seattle -www.washington.edu
25. University of Minnesota - www.umn.edu
26. Yale University -www.yale.edu
27. John Hopkins University -www.jhu.edu
28. Case Western Reserve University - www.cwru.edu
29. Brown university (RI)- www.brown.edu
30. Virginia poly Tech- www.vt.edu
31. North Carolina State University- www.ncsu.edu
32. Dartmouth College, NH- www.dartmouth.edu
33. University of Pittsburgh- www.pitt.edu
34. Iowa State University- www.iastate.edu
35. University of California- Santa Barbara- www.ucsb.edu
36. Arizona State University- www.asu.edu
37. Rutgers, State Univ of NJ, New Brunswick- www.rutgers.edu
38. Rice University -www.rice.edu
39. University of Rochester - www.rochester.edu
40. University of Virginia - www.virginia.edu
41. University of Pennsylvania - www.upenn.edu
42. Northwestern University (IL) -www.northwestern.edu
43. University of Delaware - www.udel.edu
44. Washington University St Louis -www.wustl.edu
45. University of California – Davis -www.ucdavis.edu
46. University of Colorado –Boulder -www.colorado.edu
47. Lehigh University (PA) - www.lehigh.edu
48. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)- www.rpi.edu
49. University of Florida; Gainesville - www.ufl.edu
50. University of California - Irvine- www.uci.edu
Schools for cumulative score near 75
51. University of Iowa
www.uiowa.edu
52. University of Tennessee-Knoxville
www.utk.edu
53. Michigan State University
www.msu.edu
54. Clemson University
www.clemson.edu
55. University of Massachusetts – Amherst
www.umass.edu
56. Kansas State University
www.ksu.edu
57. Vanderbilt University (TN)
www.vanderbilt.edu
58. University of Cincinnati
www.uc.edu
59. University of Alabama- Tuscaloosa
www.ua.edu
60. University of Arizona-Tucson
www.uarizona.edu
61. University of Notre Dame (IN)
www.nd.edu
62. University of Chicago
www.uchicago.edu
63. University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
www.unc.edu
64. University of Utah
www.utah.edu
65. Colorado School of Mines
www.mines.edu
66. University of Illinois at Chicago
www.uic.edu
67. University of New Hampshire
www.unh.edu
68. University of New Mexico
www.unm.edu
69. Boston University
www.bu.edu
70. Colorado State University
www.colostate.edu
71. SUNY- stony brook
www.sunnysb.edu
72. University of Missouri – Rolla
www.umr.edu
73. Auburn University
www.auburn.edu
74. University of Buffalo
www.buffalo.edu
75. Drexel University
www.drexel.edu
Schools for cumulative score near 70
76. University of Connecticut
www.uconn.edu
77. University of Nebraska Lincoln
www.unl.edu
78. University of Georgia
www.uga.edu
79. University of Missouri-Columbia
www.mizzou.edu
80. West Virginia University
www.wvu.edu
81. Illinois Institute of Technology
www.iit.edu
82. University of Miami
www.miami.edu
83. Tulane University
www.tulane.edu
84. Indiana University - Bloomington
www.indiana.edu
85. University of Texas – Dallas
www.utdallas.edu
86. Ohio University –Athens
www.ohiou.edu
87. University of Akron
www.uakron.edu
88. Oregon State University
www.oregonstate.edu
89. University of Houston –Houston
www.uh.edu
90. George Mason University
www.gmu.edu
91. Michigan technological University
www.mtu.edu
92. University of Maine
www.umaine.edu
93. Oregon State University
www.oregonstate.edu
94. University of South Carolina
www.sc.edu
95. University of California – River Side
www.ucr.edu
96. University of Kentucky
www.uky.edu
97. Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge
www.lsu.edu
98. Oklahoma State University
www.okstate.edu
99. University of Kansas
www.ku.edu
100. University of Central Florida
www.ucf.edu
Schools for cumulative score near 60
101. University of Toledo
www.utoledo.edu
102. University of Memphis
www.memphis.edu
103. University of Nevada Los Vegas
www.unlv.edu
104. Mississippi State university
www.msstate.edu
105. University of Missouri, Kansas City
www.umkc.edu
106. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
www.siuc.edu
107. Northeastern University
www.northeastern.edu
108. University of Tulsa
www.utulsa.edu
109. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
www.siue.edu
110. University of Alaska- Fairbanks
www.uaf.edu
111. Northern Illinois University
www.niu.edu
112. University of Oklahoma
www.ou.edu
113. University of New Orleans
www.uno.edu
114. Oregon Graduate Institute of Science &Tech
www.ogi.edu
115. University of Indianapolis
www.uindy.edu
116. University of Nebraska Omaha
www.unomaha.edu
117. University of South Florida- Tampa
www.usf.edu
118. Tennessee Technological University
www.tntech.edu
119. Texas Tech University
www.ttu.edu
120. University of Alabama-Huntsville
www.uah.edu
121. Polytechnic University (NY)
www.poly.edu
122. University of Idaho
www.uidaho.edu
123. Indiana University Purdue University
www.iupui.edu
124. University of Arkansas- Fayetteville
www.uark.edu
125. University of South Florida
www.usf.edu
Schools for cumulative score near 55
126. University of Louisiana-Lafayette
www.lousiana.edu
127. Brigham Young University
www.byu.edu
128. University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
www.uark.edu
129. University of Oklahoma
www.ou.edu
130. Syracuse University
www.syr.edu
131. New Jersey Institute of Technology
www.njit.edu
132. Idaho State University
www.isu.edu
133. University of North Carolina-Charlotte
www.uncc.edu
134. New Mexico State University
www.nmsu.edu
135. Wayne State University
www.wayne.edu
136. Wright State University
www.wright.edu
137. California State University, Sacramento
www.csus.edu
138. Southwest Missouri State University
www.smsu.edu
139. Florida Institute of Technology
www.fit.edu
140. North Dakota State University
www.ndsu.edu
141. University of Texas-Arlington
www.uta.edu
142. Clarkson University
www.clarkson.edu
143. University of Tennessee Chattanooga
www.utc.edu
144. Portland state university
www.pdx.edu
145. University of Vermont
www.uvm.edu
146. University of Tampa
www.utampa.edu
147. Louisiana Tech. University
www.latech.edu
148. Wichita State University
www.wichita.edu
149. Illinois State University, Norma
www.ilstu.edu
150. University of Mississippi
www.olemiss.edu
Schools for cumulative score near 50
Old Dominion University, Virginia
www.odu.edu
New Mexico Institute of Mining &Tech.
www.nmt.edu
Wright State University
www.wright.edu
University of Illinois at Springfield
www.uis.edu
University of Louisville
www.louisville.edu
Villanova University
www.villanova.edu
University of Southern Mississippi
www.usm.edu
University of North Texas
www.unt.edu
Lamar University
www.lamar.edu
Florida International university
www.fiu.edu
University of Bridgeport –CT
www.bridgeport.edu
University of Dayton –Ohio
www.udayton.edu
Texas A & M university, Kingsville
www.tamuk.edu
Eastern Michigan State university
www.emh.edu
South Dakota State University
www.sdsu.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
North Dakota State University
www.ndsu.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
Schools for cumulative score near 40-45
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
University of Detroit Mercy
www.udmercy.edu
University of Arkansas Little Rock
www.ualr.edu
Widener University, Pennsylvania
www.widener.edu/
Northwest Missouri State University
www.nwmissouri.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
Ferris State University
www.ferris.edu
East Tennessee State University
www.etsu.edu
Kent State University
www.kent.edu
Mc Neese State University
www.mcneese.edu
Oakland University
www.oakland.edu
San Jose state University
www.sjsu.edu
William Patterson University
www.wpunj.edu
University of West Florida
www.uwf.edu
Temple University, PA
www.temple.edu
Widener University
www.widener.edu
University of St Thomas, MN
www.stthomas.edu
Western Illinois university
www.wiu.edu
Cleveland State University
www.csuohio.edu
More Schools for cumulative score near 40
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/
Texas A & M University, Commerce
www.tamu-commerce.edu/
Hawaii Pacific University, Hawaii
www.hpu.edu/
Northwood University, Michigan
www.northwood.edu/
Johnson and Wales University, RI
www.jwu.edu/
Monmouth University-New Jersey
www.monmouth.edu/
California State university Chico
www.csuchico.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
More Schools for Cumulative Score around 40
Chapman University
www.chapman.edu
Clark Atlanta University
www.cau.edu
Delaware State University
www.desu.edu
DePaul University
www.depaul.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
MarquetteUniversity
www.marquette.edu
Oklahoma City University
www.ocu.edu
Southern New Hampshire University
www.snhu.edu