I think you can make this degree out of the standard electives offered in any good CS program, although the courses at CMU are more likely to be great rather th

I think you can make this degree out of the standard electives offered in any good CS program, although the courses at CMU are more likely to be great rather than just good. To me it was just "the cool CS electives that you get to do if you get all the math, stats and signal processing down pat." Sad news is that the fields that make up these interesting classes are things that people do PhDs in, so unless you get a PhD you're unlikely to get anyone to pay you to do them when you're done and will get stuck making the help button for the Google Cloud for Education Administrators Console anyway...