Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?

Re:Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It? by xxSparkleSxx on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:09PM (#15019477)

I did a masters an Johns Hopkins and completed it all online. It's a similar style program where you can do it all online, on campus, or as a combination.

Still cost me slightly over 40k even though Innever stepped foot on campus.

It's a total rip-off, but only in the sense that I couldn't get a decent paying job without a masters (work in biotech).

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Re:Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It? by trentmb on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:12PM (#15019509)

> It's a total rip-off

I've always been under the impression that most masters degrees are money mills for the university. They expect your employer to foot the bill.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It? by luckydude on Thursday August 17, 2017 @12:37PM (#15038296)

MS in CS from UW-Madison here. Also taught CS240B to masters students at Stanford.

Stanford masters seemed almost entirely like a money mill.

Wisconsin masters was a much better education in my opinion. Worked you harder, it was actually worth the time I put in.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It? by xxSparkleSxx on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:07PM (#15024180)

Mine did for most of it, still a rip-off. But at the same time I got a much better job out of it, just didn't actually need the degree to do the job.

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