Where do you see the price $7000?
We’re not yet ready to announce a specific program cost,
but the plan is to offer the Georgia Tech OMS CS for a
total cost of under $7,000—a fraction of the cost of
Georgia Tech’s on-campus program and even less than that
of comparable private universities.
You also have to have a Bachelor's degree, which is a disappointment for me. I left college before completing my BS in CS, and I'd love to be in this program, but I wouldn't be admitted.
[disclosure: my wife works in the Georgia Tech Professional Education group, which is how I heard about this]
That would somewhat validate their stated goal of increasing STEM education.
At the next family-attending Georgia Tech Professional Education function I'm going to petition everybody who'll stand still to allow people without a BS to earn the degree. But I think I'll actually be preaching to the choir.
Anyway, it's a huge step for them to create this program as is. And once the concerns about "degree devaluation" have passed, and enough demand has become apparent, maybe they'll be ready for the next step.
Really?! Forget the degree then, I just want the content!
How much does the degree program cost?
We’re not yet ready to announce a specific program cost, but the plan is to offer the Georgia Tech OMS CS for a total cost of under $7,000—a fraction of the cost of Georgia Tech’s on-campus program and even less than that of comparable private universities.