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Re:The declining value of the MS in Computer Science by areeve on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @07:18PM (#5789895)
This is very timely as I'm currently studying to sit the GRE in August, with the hope of applying MS CS programs at the end of the year (Stanford, CMU, Princeton, etc). Perhaps I should reconsider this?

I'm a non U.S. citizen/resident and I'd like to work in Product Management in the U.S.; I had hoped that an MS CS from a top university would help bridge the gap between my design undergraduate from an unknown international university – helping me land a job at a top tech company as an Associate Product Manager or the like.

Thoughts from the savvy HN crowd?

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Re:The declining value of the MS in Computer Science by akurilin on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @09:31PM (#5790390)
A MS in CS doesn't give you much useful hands-on knowledge that'd be immediately applicable at your day to day job in the corporate world. I'd look into a MS in Software Engineering, like the one CMU offers, if you're more interested in pragmatic skills.
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