CU Boulder Masters on Coursera

[spohara]

Any more updates? Have you graduated and making a million $/yr? Inquiring minds. I'm interested in the ms-ds program. Did you have to use proctorU? How was it? how were the tests? Were they basically like the quizzes? How do you think of the program looking back? Do you know what the graduation rate is? Anything you can tell us would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah, no graduation yet and the 18 month timeline just won't happen for me.  I have next to no free time and I'm definitely doing this program on a binge basis.  The good news is it is perfectly designed for that.  I have 13 credits under my belt, having done 3, 6 and 4 in a session.  ProctoU is terrible.  I was aiming for 5 credits the last session I took, but I couldn't get the ProctorU stuff working, got discouraged and dropped that class.  The good news is the refund process is super smooth.

As far as outcomes - I'll let you do the digging on graduation rates or average outcomes.  For me, I'm a newly promoted GS-14 in the federal government in the midst of a project I intend to see to completion.  I do think I am picking up some useful knowledge here and there, but as for salary potential, I'm not even looking for GS-15 jobs or private sector options for another ~5 years unless something unexpected happened.  I still like the program overall, and they seem to be doing a lot of work on both the CS and EE programs (not sure about what is happening with DS), and there is a trickle of additional offerings coming every few sessions for EM.