I'm in it right now, starting my third term in May. It's been very valuable for me. However, I think I'm like most of the students: coming from a math, engineer

I'm in it right now, starting my third term in May. It's been very valuable for me. However, I think I'm like most of the students: coming from a math, engineering, or science background, transitioning into a more software development-oriented career. The value of the OMSCS degree is very clear for us: the degree as a qualification, and exposure to knowledge/skills we don't already have.I'm not sure if it would be as valuable for someone who already has some sort of computer science/systems background. I'm not really sure what a computer systems engineering degree entails so I may be way off here. Some other thoughts: The time investment and effort to do the courses is serious. Not only are the courses very time-consuming (10 - 30 hours per week), but you're also expected to do research and study up on material on your own in certain classes. You can't just be a passive consumer of the material. It can be very rewarding and/or very painful depending on what you're getting out of the course. Your choices are constrained by class capacity. It is very difficult to get into the more popular courses (i.e the ML ones in particular) and so be prepared to take non-ML courses until you have enough seniority to get better registration preference. Don't even bother trying to plan out your courses in advance, a lot of it will just be determined by when you are permitted to register for classes! To be fair, based on recent emails from GT, it seems like they're aware of this problem and looking to open up other classes (possibly taking advantage of more courses going online during the pandemic). They also seem to be opening up courses that were formerly restricted to the OMSA degree (the more math-heavy analytics equivalent) which I'm really excited about.