I think Georgia Tech's OMS CS for its affordability and breadth of classes and Stanford HCP/SCPD for the depth of classes are the best choices at the moment.
Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
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Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#12I'm currently enrolled in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/ . 2-3 years of part-time work for $7000, and it's a fully accredited degree with no distinction from the on-campus degree. It's no pushover, a lot of work is required. But the opportunity to get a top-10 CS degree for under ten grand total is unparalleled.
Any recommendations as to a distance learned BS to pair with this?
Sadly the options are very limited it seems. There are a handful of state schools that either offer them to people who have some existing college credi (not if you dont have any prior education) or offer made up bullshit sounding degrees for "continuing professionals". There are also for profit school and school that seem to not be outright scams, but might not be high quality (e.g. WGU)
So if you just want to check a box for grad school or to bypass ATS filtering, etc. you have a few options, otherwise you might be out of luck
source: did some research on going back to school late last year. I sould also mention my comment is within the context of the Is
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#13I'm currently enrolled in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/ . 2-3 years of part-time work for $7000, and it's a fully accredited degree with no distinction from the on-campus degree. It's no pushover, a lot of work is required. But the opportunity to get a top-10 CS degree for under ten grand total is unparalleled.
I've got a colleague who is brushing up on his math before he takes on this very degree. I think he's going down to four days a week from next year, to accommodate his study.
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#14I'm currently enrolled in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/ . 2-3 years of part-time work for $7000, and it's a fully accredited degree with no distinction from the on-campus degree. It's no pushover, a lot of work is required. But the opportunity to get a top-10 CS degree for under ten grand total is unparalleled.
Any recommendations as to a distance learned BS to pair with this?
University of London has a BS in CS, however it's a 3-year degree so I am not sure it would be relevant in the US.
https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-compute...
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#15OpenHPI has awesome lectures and nano degrees
https://open.hpi.de/?locale=en
Greetings from Berlin
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#16I'm currently enrolled in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/ . 2-3 years of part-time work for $7000, and it's a fully accredited degree with no distinction from the on-campus degree. It's no pushover, a lot of work is required. But the opportunity to get a top-10 CS degree for under ten grand total is unparalleled.
Any recommendations as to a distance learned BS to pair with this?
Athabasca University offers a 4 year, Canadian distance Computing and Information Sciences Bachelors. It's affordable, the whole thing is under $40K CAD ~= $31USD. Just a suggestion for the non-Canadian Hacker News set.
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#17Harvard's Extension School offers a variety of Bachelor and Masters degrees, and whilst not fully online, you can fulfill most of the requirements without setting foot on campus.
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#18I'm currently enrolled in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/ . 2-3 years of part-time work for $7000, and it's a fully accredited degree with no distinction from the on-campus degree. It's no pushover, a lot of work is required. But the opportunity to get a top-10 CS degree for under ten grand total is unparalleled.
My wife is doing the GT MS in data science (career change after after 20 years in microelectronics process engineering). Yeah, for under $10k it is definitely a good deal.
I do think there will be a glut in this field as everyone rushes into it, but I suppose it’s better than microelectronics, which is dead in this country (all back-end processing was outsourced to China).
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#19University of Illinois also runs an online MCS program, similar to the Georgia Tech one. The curriculum is very comparable to the on-campus degree, and is supposed to take 2 years or less, I believe
Re: Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
#20I'm currently enrolled in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/ . 2-3 years of part-time work for $7000, and it's a fully accredited degree with no distinction from the on-campus degree. It's no pushover, a lot of work is required. But the opportunity to get a top-10 CS degree for under ten grand total is unparalleled.
Have a colleague who completed this last year, seemed to be a fantastic value. He had to drop to 4 days a week for a few of the more intense semesters, but seemed honestly proud of completing and brought back a ton of knowledge to the team.