This used to be true in the U.S. It's increasingly less so. That's true in a general way for all Master's programs. Bachelor's degrees are mostly focused on co

This used to be true in the U.S. It's increasingly less so. That's true in a general way for all Master's programs. Bachelor's degrees are mostly focused on covering all the general stuff that no longer gets taken care of in high school, plus a couple of semesters of consuming the basics of your degree program. The Master's is basically an intro to research + some deeper dives into focused topics. I think the article is accurate but not particularly useful. The value of all degrees is dropping over time as degrees inflate. It's not specific to comp sci. It's a reflection of our incredibly shitty primary education. Universities simply don't have a choice. They can't keep the standards of admission they had 20 years ago, let alone 50. They just won't have any students at all. And each link up the chain of education has to pay for the sins that came before. High schools have to deal with kids who can't read. Colleges and Universities have to deal with kids who can't write. Grad programs have to deal with kids who don't know wow to research, and PhD programs have to deal with people who don't know how to produce new insight. There are some exceptions, of course. But it's a problem the entire academic system is struggling with very badly right now.