Requirements for Graduate Studies and Suggestions?

Graduate School
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I’m currently pursuing Electrical engineering (4-year program) from NIT, Jaipur (India). Although I haven’t taken the GRE test yet, I’m planning to do so in the near future. I would like to know the selection process that is taken under consideration if I would like to apply to a University to pursue my M.Eng in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I know GRE and Grades are few of the factors; however, I would like to know the average scores of GRE taken under consideration when applying to colleges such as McGill University (Canada), University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Texas at Austin,University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

I’m current in 3rd year of my Engineering. Here’s a little preview on my profile:

TOFEL (Computer-based): 110/120.
CGPA (out of 10): 4.69 (IV more semesters to go)
GRE: Yet to give
Letter of Reference: (Hoping it to be nothing better than average)

Can anyone suggest me somethings I should focus on in order to get into these universities for my Masters program? Also, is it true that getting into a university is much easier for a graduate student than that of a undergraduate student? Do you think I stand a chance to qualify into these universities?

P.S: I’ve graduated school from abroad, and pursuing my B.Tech from India.

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If you want to know test scores and other hard data, you need to research those graduate schools own websites, which will be accurate and up to date.

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Any suggestions @BooBooBear for me? Yes, currently looking into those things. :slight_smile:

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Most graduate programs don’t publish average GRE scores or GPAs. Their website would be the only place they’d put it; if you can’t easily find it there, that’s most likely because they don’t share it publicly. It wouldn’t be very useful anyway, since most graduate admissions are not very numbers-driven, and other factors in your application can outweigh numbers that would seemingly keep you out (or get you in).

I’m guessing for engineering you’d need near-perfect quantitative GRE scores. You probably want to shoot for verbal scores of 145-150+ (I think there’s a little bit of slide for non-native English speakers, especially if you’re otherwise outstanding).