Georgia Tech OMSCS Review: Should you do it?
Yes, maybe, and no
Update (2019/06/11): I’m offering tutoring for OMSCS courses. Feel free to reach me through my request for tutoring form and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
Introduction
I normally talk about very technical subjects, but given that I finished Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program last week, I thought it would be the correct time to write a piece on whether or not I’ve found the program to be useful to help prospective students make the right decision whether or not to entire the program as it is a very long time commitment in order to complete the program. The short answer is that it is worth it. The long answer is it’s only worth it to those who have certain goals of what they might receive from the program. Now to help those who are unsure if they have the right goals of what they might get out of the program, I’ll discuss what I’ve seen to be the right and wrong reasons for doing the entire program.
Wrong Reason: For a 10k pay bump
This is the absolute worse reason to the program. While it’s documented there is a pay bump in doing a MS in CS, the time commitment required for the program, which on average is 3 years for 10 hours a week, costs much more than the 10k a year you might get in a pay bump from…
