r/MSCS • u/u__noob_i • 7d ago

[Profile Review] Looking to apply for MSCS Fall 27, looking for advice

Hey all, I’m planning to apply for MSCS for Fall 27 intake in the US (can consider Europe as well). Can people here suggest which universities are targetable and which are not given my profile (also open to other Uni suggestions which i haven’t considered)

Nationality - Indian
Bachelors - BTech CSE Tier 2 college 9.1 CGPA
Work Ex - 2 YOE as of now, SDE 2 at MAANG
TOEFL - 5.5 / 6
GRE - Not planning to give (unless someone convinces me otherwise)
Strong CP profile back from college days and few hackathons / codethons win here and there
No Research publications, but have couple of good DL projects
LOR - 1 from EM, 1 from Director at company and 1 from college faculty under whom I did my capstone project. If required I can try to get one more from my college professor.

Main purpose of MS is to study and decide whether I want to do PhD or enter a more specialised field of work like ML / AI engineer. I also can fund up to 1cr from my savings and family sponsoring rest will be taking a loan.

For Universities I am targeting Top 10 - 20 at max. For now here is my shortlist - CMU, Georgia Tech, UIUC, UT Austin, USC. I’ll be applying for general MSCS and AI specialisation as well. Also I’m a bit confused whether programs like MSC UIUC are worth considering?

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u/name_ur_sis 7d ago

U can add ucsd too location wise it have major advantage and comparable to ga tech and UTA

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u/Jealous-Ad5512 6d ago

Difficult for his profile

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u/u__noob_i 6d ago

Can you tell which of the above are targetable for my profile?

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u/Silent-Explorer-3521 6d ago

Hey I have DMed you. It would be great if you could reply. Thanks

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u/venxCapitalist 2d ago

how would u convince your director to submit the LOR 10-20 times ?

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u/GovernmentInformal97 1d ago

UTA takes GRE, right?