Getting in master programe of MIT

[sakky]

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Sorry, I should have written that earlier. The 2003 numbers are from this story in the Tech.</p>

<p>I thought I remembered seeing a number last year – that 2100 students applied for 100 spots, i.e. that ~150-200 students were admitted from 2100 applications – but I can’t find the source of that number, so I feel the Tech numbers are at least marginally more reliable.

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<p>It seems to me that those Tech figures cited are for all graduate-level admissions, not masters degree admissions specifically. That is, unless I’m missing something. </p>

<p>I think there is also something to be said for the timing of the article. Let’s keep in mind that in 2003, the tech industry, and especially the computer industry, was in an economic deep-freeze, as thousands of computer and IT people were recently laid off by the dotcom boom. Given those economic circumstances, I would not be surprised to find that a lot of people wanted to go to grad school, as grad school is a common method to wait out bad economic times. Can’t get a good job? Might as well go to grad school. </p>

<p>This is further reinforced by salary figures between 2002 and 2003. Notice how the salaries for EECS bachelors degree grads for both Berkeley and MIT actually * declined * from 2002 to 2003. If figures from both these schools declined, then EECS salaries nationwide probably declined, as evidence of a bad economic time for EECS, and I am sure that a lot of people decided they’d rather camp out in grad school. </p>

<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation03.pdf[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation03.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation02.ppt[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation02.ppt&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm[/url]”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;