Online Master of Computer Science: My review of UIUC’s MCS-DS
My experiences with an online computer science (data science) degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
There are a lot of reasons why you would want to do an online degree. Computer science is a domain that requires very little interaction and naturally lends itself to online study. Especially if you don’t live in the US, online degrees offers a window of opportunity which you won’t get otherwise.
A while back, I wrote a brief article on my experiences with the MCS-DS.
I didn’t think it did it justice — it was short and rushed. Here I’m going to break it down into parts — explaining the different courses I took, various aspects of my experience and the overall recognition I received afterwards.
Part 1. Degree Details
You can skip this part if you’re not really interested in doing specifically a MCS degree from UIUC, but wish to pursue some form of online study. My experiences in online study are in Part 2 below.
