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the faculty and staff opened a world of opportunites for me and helped me throughout the years of my study. KSI understands that every dream and hope of an education must be filtered through the student.

I can say with confidence that KSI provides a great environment for international students.

KSI has a unique combination of positive traits —a personalized approach to student needs, highly qualified professors, as well as very helpful tech support team.

I would like to express my greatest appreciation to all of my professors. They gave so much of their time to me so that I could learn as much as I could in these years. Their classes were well prepared in a systematic way.

KSI is very flexible and accomodating; the curriculum worked well with my personal needs and work schedule. The online format included one-to-one tutoring and was very helpful.

I am really happy that I have chosen to attend the SAS certification program at the KSI. The school has a unique combination of positive traits

I am pleased and proud when I look back on my KSI experience. When I first entered the graduate program I literally knew almost nothing about computers and the faculty and staff opened a world of opportunites for me

Now that I have completed my work at KSI, I must say that attending online has been a great experience for me. I found the coursework to be relevant and the instructors to be knowledgeable.

Javier Vazquez Navarrete

	As a KSI student, I can say with confidence that KSI provides a great environment for international students. The students are very diverse culturally; faculty and staff are always approachable and willing to help students in anything from course material to career advice. I am highly impressed with the competence of the faculty and staff. KSI offered me the flexibility to study on campus or remotely online courses when I could not take courses on site. I feel that KSI prepared me for the challenges of the II industry. The program really helped me to get the basis and concepts to be prepared in the very competitive working environment. As an MS Degree student close to graduation I have achieved my objectives and I have many my prospects in the RFID technology. I would highly recommend KSI to any students seeking a better education in order to improve their position at their current workplace or if they wish to go into an entirely new field. Now begins a new challenge in my life and I will put into practice every thing that I learned in KSI during last two years and I can say that I am ready to enter the RFID industry here in United States.

Hsuan Wei Peng

	I am very happy to have had the great opportunity of studying at KSI. I would like to express my greatest appreciation to all of my professors. They gave so much of their time to me so that I could learn as much as I could in these years. Their classes were well prepared in a systematic way. Therefore, students, like me without any computer science background could easily get into the area. It is also because of them that I became interested in computer science. They prepared me well with the fundamental knowledge and skills about computer hardware and software. I also wa0518nt to thank my school, Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School for giving me this chance to get into the field of computer information science. All the staff and faculty always try their best to assist me whenever I needed them to. They also worked as hard as possible to make our learning environment better everyday. I had very good experiences here and I am very proud I can get my Master degree in KSI.

Zoritza Temelkova

I am really happy that I have chosen to attend the SAS certification program at the KSI. The school has a unique combination of positive traits —personalized approach to the students' needs, highly qualified professor in the name of Mr. Falcon Chu, as well as very helpful tech support team. The classes are designed in a very good methodical way to provide the most recent information and hands on experience.

Thanks to KSI I learned a lot over a short period of time learning intensively how the SAS system works. KSI is very flexible and accomodating; the curriculum worked well with my personal needs and work schedule. The online format included one-to-one tutoring and was very helpful. The staff and faculty always made themselves available. In general, it was a great experience.

If I have another opportunity to invest in my future, I won't hesitate to enroll in additional programming classes at the KSI.

Irina Tepomes

	I am pleased and proud when I look back on my KSI experience. When I first entered the graduate program I literally knew almost nothing about computers and the faculty and staff opened a world of opportunites for me and helped me throughout the years of my study. KSI understands that every dream and hope of an education must be filtered through the student.

John Menke

Now that I have completed my work at KSI, I must say that attending online has been a great experience for me. I found the coursework to be relevant and the instructors to be knowledgeable. Several examples stand out: First, I was able to participate in a group project with Dr. Chang that involved the deployment of bug tracking system, I enjoyed having the opportunity to work with Dr. Chang and his staff. Next, I worked with professor C.Y. in CIS509 where he encouraged my use of new Java technology -- Drools. My knowledge of Drools ended up being directly applicable to my job. Most recenly, I was able to further my knowledge of software modelling under the guidance of Dr. Chang. The research I performed for my thesis is going form the basis for the next phase in my journey towards being a better software developer.

Other courses in the curriculum have helped me in my career; one helped me finish up my Oracle DBA certification, and another taught by Professor Thulin opened up my eyes to the technology underlying regular expressions; something that helped me in my recent work with ANTLR. I fully expect to be drawing off what I have learned at KSI for some time.

KSI met or exceeded my expectations, I would recommend the school to anyone with the desire to improve.

Yousufuddin Syed

	I am delighted to have taken Professor Hsieh's course. I am also grateful for being a KSI student. I am thankful to the professors and staff members at KSI for helping me achieve my career goals.

Daniel Yu

KSI provided me with everything that I would expect from a small school. There is a lot of interaction between instructors and students. Most instructors are available during normal school hours. The lecture notes provided are precise and easy to understand. It really comes down to how much is your desire to learning basically. Coming to pursue a master’s degree in Computer Information System with a background in Electrical Engineering, my advisor spent extra time with me to provide me guidelines to approach to JAVA before my semester even started just to help me building a solid foundation in JAVA. For most universities/colleges, the online learning will be using video conference system or online video clips. KSI provide students with online videos and their own conference system where student and professor will be using chat rooms to discuss over the lectures and questions virtually. Because KSI is a small school, the atmosphere is like a big family here. Whether is office personnel or instructors, they are more than willing to provide you with their help all the time. Overall, I think this is a outstanding school to learn for any students who seek self-improvement in information technology.

Alex Tsai

KSI is pleased to share happy news from alum Alex Tsai. While a student at KSI, Alex excelled in all his courses and graduated in August 1995. As the Executive Officer of a company called Chicago Digital Tech Co. Ltd., Alex has brought back to Taiwan the knowledge, expertise, and experience he had acquired when he was a student of KSI. In running this company from Taipei since 1998, he continues to maintain his local ties.

KSI helped me to understand the chances to do business in the field of web and virtual community. Plus, I really appreciate the professors of KSI, and their lectures. They expanded not only my realm of knowledge, but also my perspective.

Sridhar Iyer

Sridhar Iyer was an exceptional student while studying at KSI. After graduating in December 2007, he went back home to India and with his new MS degree was able to get a job in the field of Equity Research and Analytics. Now he works for the IPO head of K.R. Choksey Shares and Securities Pvt. Ltd. in India’s financial capital city of Mumbai as an Equity Research Associate.

I thank all KSI staff. I am indebted to the Executive Director, and Professor Hsieh and all the professors of KSI. The teaching was excellent. My online classes well planned and executed. I would like to thank Mr. Daniel Li (KSI’s IT Manager) for his role as well. All in all, KSI education was worth it for me. In future I would definitely come over there and share all my experiences in detail with KSI students. I feel proud to be KSI Alumni.

Eric Lin

Eric Lin graduated from KSI in 2001. He has been working as a Network Administrator for Nimlok Company in Niles, IL since 2002. In addition, Eric works as an Instructor in the Continuing Education Program at Oakton Community College. Eric wishes to give special thanks to Professor Hsieh and Executive Director Judy Pan for all the wonderful things they provided to him during his studies at KSI.

All the courses provided by KSI are very good and very useful to build up your knowledge and foundation for your future career

James Chen

KSI is happy to hear from alumni James Chen. James graduated from KSI in May of 1997. He is currently working as a Pharmacy Technician. James' advice to KSI students is to "Study hard and more than others." In personal news, James is happy to have played golf every weekend in 2008 so far.

MIS program was very inspired for learning both CIS and Business courses.

Irene Lee

Originally from Taiwan, Irene Lee came to the US to study at KSI. She fondly remembers her life in Chicago, and notes "The time I was there was quite a significant turning point in my life". Irene now teaches Spanish at ChuHai College in Hong Kong. She will graduate with her second Master's degree in Computer-Aided Translation from The Chinese University in Hong Kong in May 2008. She then plans to pursue her PhD in Applied Linguistics.

Irene says that she learned something very important at KSI:

No matter what you're doing, how far you go and how much you achieve depends on how much passion you have. It's not that the best survives, it's that who survives is the best.

Sreedhar Bommana

Sreedhar Bommana recently contacted KSI with great news - "I got a job offer back here in India!" He will begin the position once he receives his degree from KSI in December 2007. Sreedhar especially thanked Professor C.Y. Hsieh for guiding him in the right academic direction and says "All the concepts that I learned from your lectures were very helpful to me in my interview". Sreedhar couldn't be happier, and he even said "I am really on top of the world that I got placed." Our sincerest congratulations to Sreeedhar on his new job and we wish him well in all his future endeavors!

Nancy Liu

KSI student Nancy Liu excels as a KSI student. She recently received an A+ in Professor Hsieh's CIS507 Principles of Computer Networks course. Dr. Hsieh's instruction helped her to receive very high marks on all of her quizzes, midterm and final exam. Nancy thanked Professor Hsieh very much for all of his support throughout the term, and said "I enjoyed learning from you very much". Congratulations Nancy!

Knowledge Systems Institute is a Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences.
We offer an MS Degree and Career Enhancement programs.
All KSI courses and programs are available online

KSI offers an MS Degree |online| with eight areas of concentration including:
Information Security :: Bioinformatics :: Knowledge Management :: Software Engineering ::
Computer Networks :: Management Information Systems :: Digital Art :: Computer-Based Education

KSI offers career enhancement programs in:
SAS :: Java :: C# :: RFID :: Digital Art

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