All sajhatis,

 

I have been working for a company after I finished my undergraduate last December. I didn’t get selected in H1B lottery and my employer is not enrolled in the E-verify program. My employer gave me some option like going to one of their overseas facilities, work there for 12 months, and come back again in L-1 visa. But I am considering going to graduate school rather than taking that L-1 path.

 

I spent some time searching for graduate schools, but I found that most of the good graduate schools don’t take graduate admission in spring semester, and their deadline for fall semester is long gone. Currently, I am in Minnesota and I did my BS in electrical and computer engineering with 3.95+ CGPA. I an wondering if you guys can suggest me a good graduate school (electrical or computer or software engineering) that takes the admission for spring 2009 semester and offers some sort of assistantship or scholarship.

 

Thanks you guys n gals. Appreciate your help.

you better go to Oklahoma state university, stillwater, OK. Talk to professor directly and you will get admission quickly. This university is among top 75 in the US. As a matter of fact you will also get assistanship of $1000 per month with tuition fee waiver. I know couple of computer guys there.

Many Nepalese student has made carrier from OK state university. But never think of woking off campus, OK State implements immigartion law and very tough, mean deportaion.

 

University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.ece.umd.edu

Our electrical engineering program at the University of Maryland is ranked 14th in the nation and 7th among public universities, and 1st among all public universities in the Northeast, according to the U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools." Our computer engineering program is ranked 17th in the nation, 8th among public universities, and 1st among all public universities in the Northeast.

The Clark School's graduate engineering programs collectively rank 17th in the nation and 10th among all public universities. From a regional perspective, the Clark School is ranked 5th among all East Coast engineering programs, and 2nd among East Coast public engineering programs.

The University of Maryland was also ranked 2nd in plasma physics, and 5th in atomic/molecular/optical physics.

The Clark School's undergraduate programs in engineering at Maryland collectively rank 25th in the nation and 15th among all public universities, according to the U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges." Maryland's computer engineering program is ranked 20th.

The University of Maryland is ranked 18th among U.S. public universities by U.S. News & World Report. Maryland has 32 programs in the top 10, 51 in the top 15, 67 in the top 20, and 79 in the top 25.

The University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering is ranked 13th in the world in the 2007 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

The University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering is ranked 6th in The Princeton Review's 2007 Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs.

The University of Maryland nanotechnology program was rated #5 in the nation for education and #7 for research in 2007 by Small Times magazine.

When last evaluated by the National Research Council, the ECE department's Ph.D. program was ranked 9th among all electrical engineering programs in public institutions, and 17th overall.

The Kiplinger 100 Best Values in Public Colleges ranked University of Maryland 13th in 2007.

MIT, the best.

well, with your GPA, you should try to give shot at top 20 schools.  with strong recommendations and good GRE, you should be able to get into one of those schools.  however, you are applying for spring semester, so i am not sure abotu those schools as most of such schools does nt consider or provide assistantship in spring semester.  the best idea is to go to usnews.com and do some research on schools.  good luck.

1A2B3C, do you know which professor(s) to talk to directly?

Syanjali, don't worry i won't be working off-campus illegally.

geda_gudi, thanks for your suggestion. Their deadline is June 1st, but I haven't taken my GRE yet.

techGuy, I don't think I will get admission there, but I was gonna try it anyway, but they don't take graduate admission in spring.

AAAA, thanks for your suggestion.

Guys, please suggest me if you know any good university which takes graduate admission for electrical/computer/software engineering in spring semester and provides some sort of assistantship/scholarship. Thanks all.

Most universities doesn't take admission for Spring and even they do, they hardly give TA/RA for Spring admission.
If you are a potential candidate and want TA/RA then Fall would be the best choice.
try asking in this forum. http://www.edulix.com/forum

भाई कि स्टोन तिम्रो GPA एकदम राम्रो छ। मेरो बिचारमा तिमी पुर्दे युनिभर्सिटीमा एक पटक प्रयास गर। म तिमीलाई केही मद्घत गर्न सक्छु।
म तिमी जस्तो पढ्ने केटाहरुलाई जाहेले पनि मद्घत गर्न तयार छु। 

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Academics/Graduates/Prospective

सुमन अन्वर सुमन
डिपार्टमेन्त अफ कम्प्युटर साईन्स अन्द ईन्जिनियरिङ
 

check out usnews.com and see college rankings

Sumansuman, I contacted Purdue, and this is what they said..

 

“There is little to no funding available in spring.  Only in the form of a possible RA if a professor is looking to support someone.  No fellowships or TA's.”

 

I contacted few professors but they didn’t reply, so don’t know what to do. If you can help in anyway, I will really appreciate it.

Keystone,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
does have spring intake option for graduate students. In case of you haven't written to any prof there, I would highly recommend you to do so. With your GPA, you should be able to make it through. Best of luck for GRE and grad school application.

More details:

http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/current/grad/admapp.html#admissions

 

 

Nepal ko chora, I emailed UIUC graduate admission office yesterday, but haven't heard anything back. Do you recommend writing directly to the profs? I mean do you know or familiar with any profs there? Thanks Nepal ko chora for your input.

Keystone,

I highly recommend you to write to the profs directly than writing to graduate admission office. It's the prof. who makes the final call. Rather than my familiarity to the profs, your correspondance to them matters more (I do know a few profs in the dept but I have no idea if they work in your area of interest). Be nice and impressive in your correspondance. Plz feel free to shoot me an email here in sajha if you want any more details. Good luck again !!

Do you go to UIUC Nepal ko chora? Some of my interest area include -- computer architecture, computer networking, wireless communication, wireless/mobile networking, wireless sensor networks, embedded software etc.. I will do some search on my own, but do you have any specific prof in mind that I should contact? Thanks again.

you can look for this option also....

http://blog.sajilonepal.com/2008/05/getting-into-top-5-mba-program.html

keystone, at OkState, write to prof samadjadeh (OS etc ko prof). has the looks of current iranian president. but kool. email samad 'at' cs.okstate.edu

http://a.cs.okstate.edu/faculty.html

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geda_gudi, thanks but not interested in MBA at least for now

axara, that prof seems to be from compter science dept, but I am looking for electrical or computer or software engineering

To solve the problem temporarily join St.Thomas thats in Minneapolis and you can take GRE and apply and transfer for other schools in next fall.
Good Luck

Thanks hyperthread for your suggestion. That's one of the last options I am considering. If possible I don't want to waste a semester.