Selection of proper domain for masters

Question

Q.  What are the various areas , one can choose in IITs/IISc.  for masters ?

      What is their respective future scope ?

      When this selection is to be made ?

Answer 1

Usually by end of first year. I'll tell with respect to IISc. CSA where there are 3 broad areas.

1. Theoretical - where work is on solving unsolved problems, finding better algorithms etc. and most people stay in academia. Related subjects include algorithms, TOC, graph theory etc.

2. System - usually considered tough as system level coding is involved. But jobs are always there and competition is less. Subjects include Databases, CO & A, Compilers, Programming Languages etc.

3. Intelligence- more into mathematics and is currently hot. Needed by Software giants and they pay the most- Amazon, Walmart, IBM IRL etc. Linear Algebra, Probability theory are the basics.

Usually one can decide his interest (for M.Tech.) based on how the first year goes where most subjects are compulsory.

Comments

A​nd  for IITs ?

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It should be mostly the same. I just used the terminology from IISc. Subjects, scopes etc should be the same in IITs. IISc. gives more flexibility in course selection.

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Thank you :)

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@Arjun sir if anyone interested in intelligence domains but he wants to study few subjs from system or tcs domain also then is this possible? 

In iisc afaik subject selection is very clearcut but its not there similar for iits