Hi Guys,
I'm 30 and I'm interested in pursuing my masters in CS. How big is the age factor? I have been working as a Lead Software developer in an MNC.

Reasons for MS:

1). Pursue research. May go for PhD. after MS.
2). Move to US.
3). My work no longer requires research and I want to do reseach in AI/Machine Learnng(FYI, My current job profile is quite different from AI.)

What do you think are my chances? Genuine responses appreciated.

Thanks

Regards
Tarun

Hi @Carcass
Thanks for your reply. I'm an Indian software engineer working with an MNC in India. I completed my bachelors of engineering in Information Technology 8 years ago from one of the top institutes of India with a grade percentage of 68.9%(not sure about how to convert it in GPA). I have looked through programs on Machine Learning at CMU and Berkeley so far and they are on top of my list. My job profile is nowhere close to my area of interest for M.S. However, I'm taking courses through coursera/edx and taking part in competitions and that's how I developed interest in data science and machine learning. I'm not sure if that would be enough as a reasonable SOP. For now, I want to pursue masters in this area but might go for PhD if I think I would want to dig deeper. For now my plan after masters is to take up a job in US as a data scientist.

Thanks Carcass. The reason I asked this question is that I wanted to know how schools look at the age factor? Is it really uncommon for a person to go for MS at age 30?

what is CS?

Hi, mee too experienced similar situation. But from what I know, the main problem is to do the GRE and TEOFL tests, in which for non-english speaker, it is quite difficult.