(I graduated from GT but didn't take the undergrad version of intro infosec, which is 400 level and is likely crosslisted with the on campus 6035. I also don't think infosec was the most rigorous of courses from what I heard, but still)
I agree that Georgia Tech is a top CS program. I don't think this is a top CS degree.
I agree that the credentialism is the real issue here. I wanted to go into security after graduating and couldn't find anywhere offering jobs with less than 3 years of work experience or a graduate degree, lucky if it was only a MsC requirement.
That vs having to interrogate a candidate on 22 subjects, identifying what constitutes sufficient coverage. I've seen enough self-taught developers who clearly haven't covered the basics to be concerned.
I'm also: why do they make Cybersecurity MS candidates take that pointless Applied Cryptography class? I read the lecture slides for it, and, like most university crypto classes, it's "just enough cryptography to make you dangerous, with just enough math notation to make you think you learned something really hard that you didn't really learn".
The MS core classes are an intro to computer security that might be workable as a 100-level class in a serious CS program, a "policies" class that looks just absolutely deadly (1 week on "HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA", then a week on the "NIST cybersecurity framework", then a week on "cybercrime and cyberwar"), and a capstone independent study program.
My advice: get an internship and skip the MS. They'll pay you to learn this stuff.