USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts

Re:USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low sala... by snakeboy on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @12:59PM (#29164991)

I've spent a lot of time interviewing data scientists for an entry-level position lately, and it's pretty shocking to hear them describe their master's "capstone project", which often consists of a group project with some pre-cleaned data. A few calls to sklearn later, bam, an M.S.

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Re:USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low sala... by joconde on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:41PM (#29166432)

Seems that all schools added a "data science" specialization a few years ago, but of course they can't suddenly become good at it if they haven't done it before.

My master in a no-name French tech school was mostly a software development curriculum, with some DL and scikit-learn courses tacked on. That was for the paper, the actual skills came on the job and online.

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Re:USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low sala... by 908B64B197 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @07:02PM (#29169259)

France has great engineering schools that are very math focused.

Anyone with a French engineering diploma I would consider for a data science position.

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Re:USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low sala... by joconde on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:01AM (#29176175)

I'm glad we have that reputation. :)

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