NYU Tandon School of Engineering Rankings 2025

• The Tandon School of Engineering boasts of a 100% placement record, which means almost every student secures a full-time job within 3 months of graduating. A few students opt for research (PHD of Post Doc). The salary for jobs in the United States varies a lot depending on the location of the job. While in some cities the annual pay for a fresher STEM graduate could be around $80,000, in other cities the pay for the same role could be as high as $110,000 a year. This is done to offset the cost of living difference in different cities. A majority of the NYU grads secure a job in New York City itself. As it is the most expensive city in the world to live in, starting pay for a role like software developer is around $110,000 a year before taxes. Therefore, the average salary range for most students graduating out of NYU is quite high, around $100,000 a year.
• Finding a job in the USA is all about networking. Students at NYU can attend multiple career events organized on the campus; a lot of the students find a job through them. The rest of the students apply for dozens of jobs online on websites like Linkedin, and try to reach out to the recruiter directly or get a referral through a connection (usually an NYU alumnus). Finding a job is all about posting dozens of applications and asking for referrals. The lowest salaries offered to Tandon grads are around $75,000 a year when the job location is in remote places in the US. While the highest pay offers go up to 150,000 dollars a year in locations like San Francisco.

• I found my accommodation through Facebook groups that usually go by names like "NYU housing", "Brooklyn rooms for NYU students". Facebook groups are probably the most popular medium for finding accommodation for Indian students in the US. There are tonnes of apartments (or flats) that are advertised every day on these groups. The most important thing to consider while finding a place to stay is to find the right roommates to stay with. For me, finding accommodation was a smooth process. I found a couple of seniors who had a room empty in their apartment, and I went for it. My roommates were very helpful.
• However, a lot of my friends struggled due to the very different lifestyles of their roommates that caused a lot of tension and drama. I recommend people first look for 2-3 roommates to share an apartment with. This can too be done through Facebook Groups, Whatsapp groups or even in discord. Make sure that your group of roomies discuss their day-to-day lifestyle with each other so that you can make sure that there won't be much friction among them. Then comes the apartment hunting.
• There are a tonne of landlords who keep students as tenants in the apartment and don't really ask for any salary slips or bank statements. I do not recommend going for brokers, as it is not very difficult to find a good place to stay, and therefore it doesn't make much sense to pay an additional broker fee. 

Most people get a job, in good enough companies. Some do well, and get into good companies. NYC is a great area to be if you want to do FinTech roles. Lots of quant firms and banks are in NYC. No dearth of opportunities when it comes to Finance and IT. Other branches? Not so sure.

I applied to MS CS elsewhere, and got rejected from all places. This was the only US admit I had. The other one was in Europe.