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Huge fan of Georgia Tech's online masters program. It's in the top 10 graduate computer science programs in the world, and it's the same curriculum and same de
by jdlyga 9y ago
Huge fan of Georgia Tech's online masters program. It's in the top 10 graduate computer science programs in the world, and it's the same curriculum and same degree that you would get on campus. But the total cost of the program is around $7,000 dollars. Their reasoning? You don't pay for the stadium, the student fitness center, career advisers, etc. You only have to pay for the cost of the online program, professors, and TA's.
- mr337 9y agoMy comp sci building was the worst building out on the campus. We did get brand new rec centers and redid sports complexes for the fun of it. The irony is the university still calls for alumni donations.......
- beamatronic 9y agoMore than one university with a $1B endowment fund still asks for donations too.
- compiler-guy 9y agoNon-profits are just like any other corporation in terms of how much revenue they want: the just want more. A company can imagine more ways to invest and make more. A non profit can think of many more things to do in keeping with its mission. Whether that's expanding a school or making the school nicer. The demand for funds in insatiable, regardless of whom.
- _acme 9y agoAll schools with greater than $1b endowments still ask for donations. What school doesn't ask for donations?
- exhilaration 9y agoFWIW Georgia Tech's online masters program has been discussed several times on Hacker News and the feedback was pretty negative. EDIT: Comments below have corrected my recollection, previous discussions were mixed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15018002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15018002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382263
- meri_dian 9y agoWhat does the negative feedback consist of?
- mattmanser 9y agoSeems some people love it, some don't, not as negative as GP implies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382263 EDIT: Reading a bit more through the thread, there's one or two people saying they didn't rate it and lots saying they did.
- beamatronic 9y agoThat's how much college used to cost WITH all that stuff. In the 90s. But we had terrible food and no air conditioning.
- thatfrenchguy 9y agoIt’s mostly because financing by the states has disappeared though.
- jimhefferon 9y agoThis is right. We used to all agree, as a society, that we would all benefit by people educating themselves, becoming then next generation of civil engineers, doctors managers, and maybe poets. But we no longer believe that, we believe that people should pay for it themselves.
- JPKab 9y agoI think that your viewpoint focuses on the people paying, but you are ignoring the people taking. It's not fair to ask people to simply pay, and not allow them to hold the institutions accountable. Universities are packed with dead weight professors, dead weight majors, and dead weight administrators who take advantage of the blind belief that a bachelor's degree in anything is better than nothing. The University of Florida got rid of its Computer Science program a few years ago, while expanding it's English department. Do you think that was a wise use of Florida taxpayer's dollars?
- robmass94 9y ago>The University of Florida got rid of its Computer Science program a few years ago, while expanding it's English department. That isn't accurate. There were boneheaded plans in 2012 to eliminate the CS department (but still have a program), but they were abandoned.
- geezerjay 9y agoNo other county in the world requires about twice the average annual income per year to cover the expenses of enrolling a single student in a university degree. When a college degree is so expensive, the problem doesn't lie in the university's revenue.
- j_s 9y agoAsk HN: Fully online CS degrees? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899383 yesterday.
- ken47 9y agoI don't doubt the quality of GT, but rankings, especially the worldwide variety, are absurd at their face, and they are part of this self-destroying system that is causing runaway education costs.
- RickJWag 9y agoI'm with you. We need to make MOOCs the default choice for a college education. Traditional university is a minefield of money sucking scams, from book costs to extra fees to constant tuition inflation. The reason for all the school debt is not the loan environment. It's the cost of schools.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The reason for all the school debt is not the loan environment. It's the cost of schools. There is an argument that the prices charged by the schools area result of the loan environment (both a market-based argument and a political argument that loans as the main affordability tool have displaced state subsidies; the former reduces the up-front cost but only by deferring it, the latter actually reduced the total cost to students.)