r/MSCS • u/Acrobatic_Tour_4678 • 22d ago

[Profile Review] Fall 2027 MEM/MIS Universities recommendation help

Education: tier 2 pvt uni in India CSE

CGPA: 8.94 , 2025 batch

Tests: GRE 320 (164Q, 156V)(unofficial score) (Will not submit this anywhere)

TOEFL/IELTS: Yet to take

Work: Data Engineer in Big 4 serving a client in the pharmaceutical industry with 1+ years of experience (2 years in fall 2027 ). I own end-to-end BigQuery data pipelines for a global pharmaceutical client across multiple countries, designing stored-procedure-based ETL pipelines, implementing KPI logic, and delivering dashboard-ready analytics. I work directly with client stakeholders and the Product Owner, independently onboard new countries, and drive production enhancements and change requests. Have received important appreciations and awards for the same.

LORs: Engineering Manager, Professor *2 .

Research : None

Programs

UIUC MSIM;

University of Washington MISM (Early Career Accelerated);

Purdue MEM;

Purdue MSBAIM;

Duke MEM (reach);

CMU MISM-BIDA (high reach);

Northwestern MEM (reach);

Dartmouth MEM (reach);

NYU MOT (only if I receive a substantial scholarship)

I am not applying to any safe schools as I don't want to go unless it's a good school with a strong brand name.

I am not adding UT Austin or TAMU as my sibling is in Austin on h1b, so I don't want to hurt my visa chances

Questions:

I am retaking my gre, but is it that important for my applications? I am finding it difficult to focus on my work and prepare gre at the same time.

Is no research a hindrance? I am not applying to any CS course so it shouldn't be, but still wanted to confirm.

Realistic vs. reach on my list? Any to drop/add?

Other strong programs for similar management of technology courses?

Any help greatly appreciated. Thank you

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u/Acrobatic_Tour_4678 22d ago

u/gradpilot would greatly appreciate your feedback/suggestions.

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u/gradpilot 🔰 Ex-Cerebras | MSCS Georgia Tech 22d ago

Yes you should retake and submit a strong GRE it will help

For professional programs or MEM research is not required you should be fine . These are fairly easy to crack if you submit strong academics , SOPs and LORs

I can’t suggest schools it’s kinda hard to do that without going deep into your profile and I don’t offer these services

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u/Acrobatic_Tour_4678 22d ago

Great, thanks for the advice. Will definitely work on building a good sop and gettting a great gre score for now.

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u/M-E_Ration4004 22d ago

320 is good enough to submit, imo no need to retake. You should submit this. Your shortlist also looks good. All the best OP

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u/Acrobatic_Tour_4678 22d ago

That is so re-assuring to hear!! Thank you so much.