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All I can hope is that more universities follow what GA Tech started. I'm doing an MSc in CS for less than 7,000$. This is the total cost, not per year. They di
by eranation 13y ago
All I can hope is that more universities follow what GA Tech started. I'm doing an MSc in CS for less than 7,000$. This is the total cost, not per year.
They did get 2 million $ from AT&T and close partnership with Udacity in the making, but still if they eventually manage to make this program break even and even profit (which no one knows for sure yet) then this should be the start of a movement that demands other top ranked universities to offer low cost MOOC versions as well. (there is also the aspect that GA Tech is a public university, but I don't think this matters. Profit is profit, and the costs are the same costs, or am I missing some basic difference?)
p.s. The main fear of "why would students want to take our 40-60K$ on-campus program if we offer the same degree online for a fraction of the price" is being put to a test here. So far I didn't see evidence that the number of on campus GA Tech graduate students decline, but I don't know for sure, time will tell.
Future will tell if this model works (I realy hope it does), but if one university can do it, others can as well.