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Re: Ask HN: Master of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Tech

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UT Austin's program is also worth considering. It's newer but there is supposedly more consistent quality and rigor to the courses. Of course nobody has taken both so it is speculation from students at both schools, but that is the general consensus I could pick up from the respective subreddits for both programs. You also have to take the GRE for UT Austin. As for your question about remaining hours, they are classe…

Thank you for the information, I just quickly checked the page and I think it has less elective courses to choose from compared to the Georgia Tech program. Another thing to take into consideration is that UT Austin's program is more expensive. [MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ONLINE]( https://www.cs.utexas.edu/graduate-program/masters-program/o... )

It has less electives because it is newer, but most people are choosing it due to increased rigor. The OMSCS program has more watered down classes supposedly. One of the things that irritates me about the georgia tech program is that they hardly have most of the classes in a program available. I'm most interested in computer vision courses and they have one class on computational photography and nothing else. On campus students get things like multi view geometry and all kinds of courses I think are essential to computer vision researchers, but not online students.

Re: Ask HN: Master of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Tech

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Anyone complete or accepted to OMSCS without a background in Computer Science? Any recommended ways to fulfill their requirements for the basic CS without paying $$$ to take courses? Was denied for not having the CS background before joining a FAANG.

You may want to check out the Online Master of Science in Analytics there also: https://www.analytics.gatech.edu/

Re: Ask HN: Master of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Tech

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I completed my OMSCS last Spring, specializing in Machine Learning. My advice to you would be to not worry about any specialization as you can change it later on. Focus on taking courses that interest you. You need to complete 10 courses for completing the program. With 2-3 mandatory courses + 3 electives, you have room for at least 4 other courses not in your specialization. There are some interesting courses on the…

Whats the total program cost? Pricing on the website is a little confusing
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