Keeping Grad School as an Option

molliebatmit
Sun, 13 May 2007 12:44:25 +0000

I only know a little about aerospace engineering programs, and what I do know I know through friends and my fiance – but I would advise trying to suss out where the money is in the programs to which you choose to apply.

Friends of mine applied to Stanford in different concentrations (there are apparently several concentrations within their aerospace department). Both were accepted, but only one was offered a funding package – apparently one concentration had much more funding than the other, so the deck was really stacked against one of my friends from the outset.

Also, you might check out companies which will pay for employees to go back and get their master’s degrees – my fiance is working for a company which will pay his tuition and continue to pay him his salary when he goes back to MIT for his master’s in two years.