The thread is filled with other OMSCS students, so I may as well throw in my perspective as a grad. - The instruction quality is comparable to free online cour

The thread is filled with other OMSCS students, so I may as well throw in my perspective as a grad. - The instruction quality is comparable to free online courses (which is unsurprising since it's all delivered over Udacity anyway.) - I learned a ton - What Georgia Tech gets right is simple and a little sad: credentials matter. I learned a lot by going through a bunch of online courses and being graded, but a significant chunk of the value is just saying I have the degree. I wish that "I took a dozen MOOCs" carried the same weight as saying that you have an MS from a top-10 school, since in this case they really are exactly the same, but it doesn't. That's particularly true with arms-length interactions. Day-to-day my CEO cares more about the skills I picked up from the program, but when he's assembling slides about team for a pitch deck, the credential matters more. Here's my full write-up: http://writing.maxrosett.com/reflections-on-the-georgia-tech-online-ms-in-computer-science.html http://writing.maxrosett.com/reflections-on-the-georgia-tech... Edit: Formatting