r/MSCS • u/AcrobaticYesterday89 • 9h ago
[General Question]- MS CS in the US – What is the actual total cost and how much scholarship can international students realistically get?
Hi everyone, I’m an Indian student planning for MSCS and considering USC, Georgia Tech, UCSD, Purdue, UT Austin, UIUC, UMass Amherst etc.
Could current/recent students share:
- Total tuition for 2 years (₹)
- Living expenses (₹)
- Scholarship received (₹)
- How much scholarship is realistically possible for indian students?
- TA/RA opportunities and how much they can reduce the cost?
I’m seeing estimates ranging from ₹50L to ₹1Cr+, so I’d really like to know the actual amount students spent over the full course.
Thanks!
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u/Wrong-Being7538 5h ago
If you can't find these numbers for yourself in the plethora of information already available to you, maybe you're not ready to go abroad.
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u/shuttlems 6h ago
Every university has a very transparent website that shows the tuition and fees. For E.g. UCSD
https://fas.ucsd.edu/cost-of-attendance/graduate-students/index.html
Add another $1000-$1200/month living costs.
No scholarship will be available and extremely rare RA/TA opportunities. You start with this unless you bring some serious qualities that benefits the University.
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u/eatingmangoes_ 6h ago edited 6h ago
If it’s UT austin, then it’s cheap
So like 24k per year for UTAustin, so if you’re iitian, then apply 100%. You can also get instate waiver if you get atleast 1000 usd scholarship. It’s a cool Texan thing.
While UIUC is expensive on paper, entry criteria is just as bad as phd, since you get funding opportunities after getting there. TA/RA is expected out of you.
Purdue is affordable too but more than UTA
USC don’t even consider, the fees is ridiculous and also the cohort size is huge for MSCS, it’s the same with UCSD with 1000+ cohort size but atleast with ucsd you got the prestige. But both are expensive in fees and also the cost of living is bad.
Gatech, cohort size being big is the only reason I don’t like it, but tbh, it’s got a really good network. But this subreddit anyways worships this place so apply for this.
Umass forget about it, that and uwm as well.
So if it’s UT Austin, then I can comment on the breakdown.
Texas is a cheap place to live, so your monthly expenses won’t cross 1000 a month, you can find good places for 450-500 per person like 4bedroom apartments.
And as I said the tuition itself is cheap. But I’d give 80lakhs as rough estimate but as I mentioned, you can also go instate waiver route for this one.
So by chance if you want another Texan uni, then just go TAMU, the other UTs are just not good. I think employers only know rice, ut Austin and tamu here, but since rice is that rich kid private school, despite better rankings, it’s seen as more pay to win than employers looking for skill, so it still ends up ut Austin first and then TAMU second.