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Re:Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration... by cstejerean on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @12:28AM (#5710172)
The only thing left is to allow people to earn a BS in CS through Udacity as well (or dropping the requirement for a BS for this program, but that seems less likely).
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Re:Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration... by ZirconCode on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @03:29AM (#5710663)
Why? Why wouldn't they just drop the requirements? They are not taking any risks, the online course is incredibly cheap to scale.

If the student passes the course, doesn't he deserve a masters? If he doesn't, well, he still paid 7k.

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Re:Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration... by rtkwe on Thursday May 16, 2013 @12:04AM (#5716851)
They're taking the risk of diluting the quality of their degree by letting in a lot of underqualified and unprepared students. Also if they get a load of unqualified students they'll either have to support these students or just let them fail. Either way drags down the program.
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