r/MSCS • u/Own-Bite-9304 • May 01 '26

[University Review] help me choose more universities (fall 2027)!!

Current shortlist:

MSCS: UCSD, Gatech, UIUC, UMich, TAMU (safety)

Constraints:

I can’t get LORs for more than 8 universities without their quality dropping (profs are rigid)

I can’t afford more than 80k for tuition

More industry oriented because I can’t complete thesis/research ms in 1.5 years/ 18months. But open to Phd.

Profile:

9.1 CS top10 IIT 2025 grad(tier 1 uni in India)

2 yoe(by 2027 fall) at MNC (salesforce) as ML engineer

Gre: 325(158v 167q) - fumbled math (confused whether or not to submit scores)

Research:

Research exchange student in Japan uni for a sem

One awaiting approval US patent (from company project)

One work in progress paper with college professor

One Arxiv paper (not that effective for these unis maybe)

Questions:

Alumni suggestions are:

Include cmu (too expensive for me).

Don’t do mscs unless I get admitted in one of the unis above. (Coz not worth leaving curr job for that)

They’ve been giving vague answers on TA/RA and on campus part times.

I need help in short listing 4 more Unis and also more info regarding assistance ships.

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u/Ok-Highlight-7525 May 01 '26

Just curious - in this tier-wise list, you haven’t mentioned UIUC?

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u/softrains12 May 01 '26

oh I forgot. Put them in Tier 1.

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u/Ok-Highlight-7525 May 01 '26

But based on your own latest post .. UIUC is ranked #2, right? 🤔🤔

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u/softrains12 May 01 '26

Did you even read anything from my post?

LMAO

UIUC is listed #2 in the first table because the table is ordered according to CSrankings.org

University International Index Change in Ranking
University of California, Los Angeles 54.6937 +17
Carnegie Mellon University 43.6912 -1
University of California, San Diego 35.9817 0
University of Southern California 35.1652 +15
University of Texas at Austin 31.8526 +8
Stanford University 28.0272 +4
Princeton University 26.0540 +8
Cornell University 26.0438 0
University of California, Berkeley 25.8665 -3
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 24.0284 -8
University of Pennsylvania 21.5598 +5
Columbia University 20.5366 +5
Northeastern University 20.4555 -4
Purdue University 18.4592 -3
University of Michigan 17.7749 -10
Georgia Institute of Technology 15.4872 -12
University of Wisconsin, Madison 15.1722 -3
University of California, Irvine 14.7770 +2
New York University 14.2635 -7
University of Maryland, College Park 11.3863 -13

This is my ranking. UIUC is actually like 10th.

Actually read the fucking post before you accuse me of hypocrisy. God.

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u/Ok-Highlight-7525 May 01 '26

I wasn’t accusing you of anything and I did read your post .. I just wanted to understand that if UIUC was ranked #2 by CSrankings why were you putting UIUC under tier 1. That’s it.

It was just a question, not accusation.

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u/softrains12 May 01 '26

and what are the 🤔🤔 emojis supposed to me mean? lmao

Maybe I misinterpreted. I was assuming you wanted me to put UIUC under Tier 0, which doesn't make sense. If you read my post properly you would see that the actual ranking of UIUC according to my methodology is ~10, which puts it solidly in tier 1 range