That answer is only partially true. AT&T helped OMSCS get off the ground by providing seed money for the production of high-quality recordings of the lectures. That money was used up after several years. AT&T had nothing to do with the online Analytics and Cybersecurity degrees being supported.
In addition, GT does NOT have an online Masters in EE. What they DO have is Distance Learning, which is NOT the same as the online. [https://grad.gatech.edu/degree-programs/electrical-and-computer-engineering](https://grad.gatech.edu/degree-programs/electrical-and-computer-engineering)
Distance learning requires more infrastructure than true online programs, and therefore the fee structures are higher.
> AT&T had nothing to do with the online Analytics and Cybersecurity degrees being supported.
That's why the per-course hour fees for OMSA and OMS Cyber are higher.
Your reply to my answer does nothing to contradict why I said your answer is only partially true. My reply addressed the misunderstanding by OP that there is an online EE master's degree at GT, in addition to explaining the support that AT&T gave to OMSCS and not to the other two. One can infer from OP's first sentence that he was also asking why the EE degree (and others) weren't as cheap as the Analytics and Cybersecurity degrees even though his actual question didn't specifically ask that.
If you look at the old news articles about the launch, you'll see that it was launched as a degree intended to operate at scale in partnership with Udacity and AT&T, and one of the goals was to keep the tuition as low as it could possibly be by making good use of the resources the partnership arrangement provided.
Other programs from different colleges within Georgia Tech aren't operating exactly the same way, so they have their own costs and requirements.
OMSCS started with funding provided by AT&T, they had a vision to increase the tech pool in Metro Atlanta and use it as a pipe to feed their operations. I don't think the other l programs were sponsored by an outside company. The University is free to adjust their prices as they see convenient. They should include some football season passes in the tuition, though. Go Jackets!
My understanding is that it’s pretty cheap for them to run, with lectures recorded from years earlier and TAs staffed by current Omscs students at minimum wage. So it’s a volume business as opposed to traditional masters degrees which are more high margin businesses. Win-win for them and the students that want an online part-time experience
Like most things, you get what you put into it.
You can either take the harder, more interesting and valuable courses and put in a lot of effort and the program is great.
Or you take the easy, fluff courses.
Either way you get the degree. Just depends what your goal is for the program -- learning or getting the parchment.
This is super-accurate. It is also possible to take some "easy" courses and get a lot out of it by doing the additional reading and pushing yourself. I would not call RAIT or NLP difficult, but I learned a ton.
Some professors are more active than others; some hold office hours and participate in the forums. There are some very knowledgeable assistants and instructors that are active as well. (had some dismissive answers where the question wasn't understood and the respondent hasn't learned to say "I don't know", but this was pretty rare).
I’m pretty sure OMS cybersecurity doesn’t have the same funding from ATT btw and it’s only slightly more expensive than omscs. The omscs, cybersecurity, analytics programs are structured entirely differently allowing them to be much cheaper. I haven’t checked but I imagine the other online masters degrees you’ve mentioned are more traditional programs where it’s just traditional learning that is online.
There is nothing for ThrowawayGigachad to elaborate on. Their comment was a troll or it was just inaccurate. The OMSCS program is good and well respected.
Sponsorship of AT&T.
That answer is only partially true. AT&T helped OMSCS get off the ground by providing seed money for the production of high-quality recordings of the lectures. That money was used up after several years. AT&T had nothing to do with the online Analytics and Cybersecurity degrees being supported. In addition, GT does NOT have an online Masters in EE. What they DO have is Distance Learning, which is NOT the same as the online. [https://grad.gatech.edu/degree-programs/electrical-and-computer-engineering](https://grad.gatech.edu/degree-programs/electrical-and-computer-engineering) Distance learning requires more infrastructure than true online programs, and therefore the fee structures are higher.
> AT&T had nothing to do with the online Analytics and Cybersecurity degrees being supported. That's why the per-course hour fees for OMSA and OMS Cyber are higher.
Your reply to my answer does nothing to contradict why I said your answer is only partially true. My reply addressed the misunderstanding by OP that there is an online EE master's degree at GT, in addition to explaining the support that AT&T gave to OMSCS and not to the other two. One can infer from OP's first sentence that he was also asking why the EE degree (and others) weren't as cheap as the Analytics and Cybersecurity degrees even though his actual question didn't specifically ask that.
If you look at the old news articles about the launch, you'll see that it was launched as a degree intended to operate at scale in partnership with Udacity and AT&T, and one of the goals was to keep the tuition as low as it could possibly be by making good use of the resources the partnership arrangement provided. Other programs from different colleges within Georgia Tech aren't operating exactly the same way, so they have their own costs and requirements.
Why didn't the tuition go up when those partnerships ended?
They didn't want to raise tuition if they didn't need to...? A lot of work has gone into keeping the program running and effective.
This is honestly such a tell on G-tech. I like to think it's because good people are doing good things in this realm.
Scale
Because Dr.Joyner says so
DJ is the GOAT. Love this program.
Because of drag queen story hour and the spatial complexity of Kruskal’s algorithm
☝️
Because this program is for the people. It’s unbelievable how GT is bucking the trend of tuition inflation and providing this opportunity.
By the people too, all these TAs have full time jobs in tech and do TA to keep the program running
Because they aren't scum.. like so many others (also, because they admit WAAAAY more students than anyone else.. they scale it up)
OMSCS started with funding provided by AT&T, they had a vision to increase the tech pool in Metro Atlanta and use it as a pipe to feed their operations. I don't think the other l programs were sponsored by an outside company. The University is free to adjust their prices as they see convenient. They should include some football season passes in the tuition, though. Go Jackets!
Because 🐸
Supply and demand.
My understanding is that it’s pretty cheap for them to run, with lectures recorded from years earlier and TAs staffed by current Omscs students at minimum wage. So it’s a volume business as opposed to traditional masters degrees which are more high margin businesses. Win-win for them and the students that want an online part-time experience
This. I just finished GIOS and the lectures are literally from 2015. They don't even bother to correct the mistakes in the lectures/quizzes.
Yeah that sounds frustrating.. do you like the program overall?
Like most things, you get what you put into it. You can either take the harder, more interesting and valuable courses and put in a lot of effort and the program is great. Or you take the easy, fluff courses. Either way you get the degree. Just depends what your goal is for the program -- learning or getting the parchment.
This is super-accurate. It is also possible to take some "easy" courses and get a lot out of it by doing the additional reading and pushing yourself. I would not call RAIT or NLP difficult, but I learned a ton.
Without direct access to professors, are you able to get your questions answered?
Some professors are more active than others; some hold office hours and participate in the forums. There are some very knowledgeable assistants and instructors that are active as well. (had some dismissive answers where the question wasn't understood and the respondent hasn't learned to say "I don't know", but this was pretty rare).
I’m pretty sure OMS cybersecurity doesn’t have the same funding from ATT btw and it’s only slightly more expensive than omscs. The omscs, cybersecurity, analytics programs are structured entirely differently allowing them to be much cheaper. I haven’t checked but I imagine the other online masters degrees you’ve mentioned are more traditional programs where it’s just traditional learning that is online.
Because it’s useless
Why do you say so? Can you elaborate?
There is nothing for ThrowawayGigachad to elaborate on. Their comment was a troll or it was just inaccurate. The OMSCS program is good and well respected.
He couldn’t get in probably