Tuesday, October 11, 2016

MS CS degree for $7000

Leveraging economy of scale, with 4000 online students much smaller price amortize cost of preparing courses...

An Online Education Breakthrough? A Master’s Degree for a Mere $7,000 - The New York Times

"...Georgia Tech decided to do something different. It charges online students the smallest amount necessary to cover its costs. That turned out to be $510 for a three-credit class. U.S.C. charges online students $5,535 for a three-credit class. (Both programs also charge small per-semester fees.)"
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"The Georgia Tech program grew out of a partnership with a MOOC company, Udacity" (& AT&T)


Forbes: Georgia Tech, Udacity Shock Higher Ed With $7,000 Degree  
"Georgia Institute of Technology has announced a partnership with Udacity to offer an online Masters Degree in Computer Science for $7,000, down 80% from the existing cost of $40,000 for the on-campus, instructor led program."

Master of Science in Computer Science - Admissions Requirements | Georgia Tech - College of Computing

Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMS CS) | Georgia Tech - College of Computing

The Numbers | OMSCS | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA


Current Courses | OMSCS | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA

Alternative, optionally free versions of same classes: 

books data: Google Ngram Viewer

Google Ngram Viewer

Google Ngram Viewer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Google Ngram Viewer or Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts frequencies of any set of comma-delimited search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed between 1500 and 2008"

"In the fields of computational linguistics and probability, an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech"


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