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If you chase the links you end up on the Georgia Tech site about it: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq. We’re not yet ready to
by rsanders 13y ago
If you chase the links you end up on the Georgia Tech site about it: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq.
We’re not yet ready to announce a specific program cost,
but the plan is to offer the Georgia Tech OMS CS for a
total cost of under $7,000—a fraction of the cost of
Georgia Tech’s on-campus program and even less than that
of comparable private universities.
All the content will be free to everybody, but you have to apply to Georgia Tech and pay if you want the actual degree.
You also have to have a Bachelor's degree, which is a disappointment for me. I left college before completing my BS in CS, and I'd love to be in this program, but I wouldn't be admitted.
[disclosure: my wife works in the Georgia Tech Professional Education group, which is how I heard about this]
- totalrobe 13y agoAgreed - this is not really "Massively Open" IMO, because it still requires a bachelor's in CS for admission. They do hint at it, but hopefully they will allow an option B for admission. That would somewhat validate their stated goal of increasing STEM education.
- rsanders 13y agoThe course materials and participation are MO, just not the Masters degree itself. At the next family-attending Georgia Tech Professional Education function I'm going to petition everybody who'll stand still to allow people without a BS to earn the degree. But I think I'll actually be preaching to the choir. Anyway, it's a huge step for them to create this program as is. And once the concerns about "degree devaluation" have passed, and enough demand has become apparent, maybe they'll be ready for the next step.
- kyllo 13y agoAll the content will be free to everybody, but you have to apply to Georgia Tech and pay if you want the actual degree. Really?! Forget the degree then, I just want the content!