Master of Science Information Technology

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Is anyone engaged in UoP's MS Information Technology program? How was/is it overall?

[icecubetr]

Today I completed my third and fourth courses with a 4.0 overall GPA, but honestly, it doesn’t feel like much of an achievement. Some students who clearly don’t know how to use APA referencing still receive full marks. I was held to a much higher academic standard during my undergraduate studies at a Canadian university than what I’ve experienced with graduate-level courses at UoPeople.

In my first semester, I was graded unfairly on one assignment. When I emailed the instructor to appeal the grade, she responded with what felt like an AI-generated, vague reply and refused to reconsider. Only after I told her I would file a formal grade appeal if the rubric wasn’t followed did my grade change from a B- to full marks. That experience was highly unprofessional and left me discouraged for the rest of the course.

The group project in the Organizational Theory and Behavior course was especially frustrating due to irresponsible team members. Most of them didn’t know how to use Google Scholar to find relevant sources, relied heavily on generative AI, failed to meet even the minimum word count, and showed little concern for proper formatting in Google Docs. One teammate even deleted a source I had added to the reference list while inserting his own and never corrected it. Another didn’t know how to do in-text citations at all.

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imo it's not worth it:

• 5.5k now (for comparison Gatech OMSCS is around 8-10k, UTAUstin is flat 10k for msai, most high end UK unis is around 12-15k).
  
• School is not QS ranked or having that much strong reputation for any grad or postgraduate program to use this MSTI (not saying you would but yeah just saying).
  
• The material itself (unlike undergrad) combined with the UoPeople unique teaching experience (As the previous student marked) makes it rather, I dunno meh.
  
• https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/in...ogram.html if you do this instead and accelerate to two terms (8kish) is much better information if your focus is IT not CS, also it has very very juicy certificates included that the UoPeople doesn't at all.
  

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imo it's not worth it:

• 5.5k now (for comparison Gatech OMSCS is around 8-10k, UTAUstin is flat 10k for msai, most high end UK unis is around 12-15k).
  
• School is not QS ranked or having that much strong reputation for any grad or postgraduate program to use this MSTI (not saying you would but yeah just saying).
  
• The material itself (unlike undergrad) combined with the UoPeople unique teaching experience (As the previous student marked) makes it rather, I dunno meh.
  
• https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/in...ogram.html if you do this instead and accelerate to two terms (8kish) is much better information if your focus is IT not CS, also it has very very juicy certificates included that the UoPeople doesn't at all.
  

The GaTech OMSCS is about $5K IIRC - great option when I was checking it out, but curious about UoP's. As for QS, I'm not all that concerned about it as this is just a "for fun" degree that I can do at a low cost. For the certs, I can do those via AFCOOL. I wouldn't really consider (personally) foreign educational institution as I'd like to stay within the U.S. system preferably.

But I see you have some undergrad experience at UoP, so I will take that into consideration