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  • Application Season
    2015 Spring
  • Program
    MSCS

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  1. I also find myself between UIUC's MCS and JHU's MSCS... but I'm leaning more towards JHU.  Would you recommend it? How has your online experience been so far? I plan to focus more on the Software Engineering side of their course options. 

  2. Retake the equivalent/more difficult courses at local universities? I mean you are going for CS, must have some decent Math background. I don't know if they'd like the fact that you passed because of social work lol (though the work itself is good).
  3. Well, after much battling and planning, I have made my decision. See you 'in' class in the Spring. Cheers!
  4. Recently learned that UIUC online MCS is very limited in term of # of courses you can take. They don't offer independent study to online students (IMO independent study courses are even more appropriate for online) to cover more areas. So you have pretty much 20 courses you can take, cover quite a few areas but offer no depth (database/data mining seems to have the most courses, AI has only 2). This upsets me greatly considering same tuition for online students, I feel like I'd be just paying for the brand name... On-campus version is still great though.
  5. Hey UCLAColumbiaUNC, have you decided which one to attend? I applied to both (and Gatech's OMSCS as well) and am waiting for decisions. UIUC ranks #5 in CS, Gatech top 10, JHU #20-30 (however, JHU overall is the most prestigious brandname among the 3). I feel UIUC is really strong (same courses, same profs, same students etc.) and it's my first choice. JHU however offers more depth (UIUC requires 4 courses in 4 areas before specialization), and I feel you can really push yourself to get a great CS grad education. What JHU lacks is student-student interaction and alumni network (CS-wise). Gatech is weakest (only plus is it's 7k for the degree) because they are still converting courses to online format and it's been running for 1 year only (UIUC 10+ years, and it's the same courses as regular school anyway, JHU 20+ years). Who knows if few years from now Gatech kills the OMSCS program?
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