I did a resident MS CSE around the time they started the online program. While for the classes that were also available online they seemed equivalent (usually j

I did a resident MS CSE around the time they started the online program. While for the classes that were also available online they seemed equivalent (usually just recorded versions of the same class), there is one big caveat: most of the courses I took during my MS, or at least most of the most valuable courses I took, were not offered online. My BS CS was also from GT (several years before), so much of the core course list available online were slightly more rigorous retreads of distributed algorithms, simulation architectures, etc. already covered late in undergrad. The most valuable courses in my MS were special topics courses that, at least at the time, weren't available online, many of which were in other departments as part of the computation + application domain interdisciplinary approach of the program. That said, the core courses that were also offered online were generally quite good, and a few were exceptionally great. Rich Vuduc's HPC applications course comes to mind.