$8,300 Sunderland MSc in CS (Data Science concentration)

[mcjon77]

I've seen a lot of posts about these degrees and they seem to be quite useless in terms of learning what you need to learn. You might be better off taking a coding bootcamp, because 12 months is not enough time to properly learn the things that you need to learn to be competent. Maybe a second bachelors in CS might be more useful because I think the process here should take 2-3 years. That second bachelors in CS from Boston University MET looks real juicy, but too bad is not fully remote.

The problem with a bootcamp, especially for a data scientist position, is that you probably won't even get past the HR screener to get to an interview.

For a tech position, a degree has basically 3 purposes:
1. Get you to the interview
2. Give you enough knowledge to do well in the interview and get the job
3. Give you enough knowledge to do well in the job for the first 6 months to a year

Of the 3, a degree MUST do number 1.  If you don't get past number 1 the other two don't count.  If I were taking this degree and felt that it was deficient in some topics, a super easy way to solve that problem is to supplement it with Udemy type courses.  Now you have a degree that gets you the interview and self-study that helps you do well in the interview, get the job, and perform well there.