09-09-2022, 11:29 PM
(09-05-2022, 07:08 PM)Pats20 Wrote:(09-04-2022, 10:20 PM)Kifomonay Wrote:How was your experience in the program ? What was your background ? And how much time did you have to commit ?(09-04-2022, 07:37 PM)jsd Wrote:(09-04-2022, 03:53 PM)ifomonay Wrote: Georgia Tech's OMSCS program does not require an undergraduate CS degree.
They require a CS degree or equivalent background. Their program is not at all friendly to those who do not have a strong background.
From where did you get that information? I was in the program. 50% of the entering students cannot write a single line of code. In one of the AI courses I took there, we had a group of 5. Only two of us knew how to code. Your experience there may have been different.
(09-04-2022, 11:34 PM)Pikachu Wrote: The attrition rate is indeed sky high but it'd be wrong to say they require a CS degree or equivalent. In fact, the high attrition rate indicates the exact opposite - that they admit a lot of people who shouldn't have been admitted in the first place.From what I’ve read it looks like it has somewhere between a 60-70% graduation rate. If what I’ve read is accurate.
The OMSCS subreddit has active admissions threads and there are a fair number of non-STEM people who get into the program every year:
I'm pretty sure your estimates are correct. In fact, I think it must be closer to 80%. I don't think there is much attrition. GT's registrar publishes the grade distribution for every class. "W"'s are typically 15% and actual C's D's and F's is less than 10%. So that would be about 25% not completing the degree, or about 75% completing which is in the ballpark of your estimates. One of the professors said they fail about 3% due to people copying and pasting code (cheating). So now that's about 78-80% completing the degree for non-cheaters.