USC graduate school - computer science

alphonse23
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:09:19 +0000

@xraymancs: Yeah, I figured that. I was going to try applying for their upcoming September deadline and see if I get accepted. If not, I’ll just study up and try to get a better score, and then try for the January deadline.

@psydent: I was planning to just borrow the money and pay it off after I land a job. My parents could help me out for a little while, in the interim, but overall I’m confident that a masters in CS will provide me with enough qualifications to get a really strong position within a good company.
As for what I want out of a M.S. CS degree, I’ve been told during internships, because that’s all I’ve done, is that in order to go as far as you can in the CS/IT industry one has to specialize in something. I have a few ideas for a thesis, so I intended to pursue the thesis track while there. I have three ideas as to what I want to do a thesis on and USC has a large enough department that I believe I could find a professor to do one of them under.