Master's degree to work in robotics

teriwtt
Mon, 13 Jul 2015 23:52:49 +0000

Thanks everyone… you gave me some great questions to start with, and now I’m afraid I overwhelmed him today! But he’s very motivated, has an outstanding GPA (including within his major), had done some preliminary research into programs, and knows what things he needs to work on over the summer. I showed him the graduate school forum, as well as the GRE forum on CC, and he will be using those as resources to start off. He’s got a great senior year planned with several robotics electives. I also threw out the option of taking a year off between undergrad and graduate school if he wants to pad his resume to make himself competitive in the top tier schools. Lots of choices, but lots of homework to do. I told him how helpful the CC parents were, if he wanted to create a membership on CC and pick some brains, too.

It was an educational process for me, as I had little to no knowledge of how the GRE has evolved in the 30 years since H took it!

@GMTplus7 - I suspect if you want to be competitive in the field he wants to be in (most likely working for defense contractors), a master’s will be really beneficial, especially if you have not gotten your undergrad in robotics.