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[tanker11]

Hi all,

I was browsing through the Master's program at Columbia, and it seemed pretty interesting. I'm interested in doing NLP, and it seems like they have quite a good set of professors/coursework for doing that. Is anyone familiar with the CVN/online version of the Master's degree at Columbia? Columbia certainly has a strong brand - is this program considered strong as well?

My goal longer-term would be to pursue a Ph.D. at a top school, but I don't think I have the requisite experience/strong enough profile to do that yet (I have a pretty good profile, but likely not sufficient topical research experience, which I'd like to do under a Master's program, preferably part-time so I can continue my current full-time job).