Comments on: The $17,500 computer science degree http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/ Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University Mon, 06 May 2013 04:32:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Glencora Borradaile http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-575 Glencora Borradaile Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:01:48 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-575 anonymous is correct in his estimate. It will be under $30K with fees, etc. It is still a financially feasible option, but I do wish we could give our Oregon taxpayers a deal.

]]> By: anonymous http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-574 anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:55:58 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-574 It could also be because Film Studies is not exactly a degree that is in high demand by employers.

]]> By: anonymous http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-573 anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:54:45 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-573 Maybe two months ago, on October 5th 2012, it was still $17,000. Not anymore.

Here’s the official tuition schedule: http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate/computer-science/tuition.htm

$450/credit * 60 credits = $27,000.

I’d be very interested at $17k; at $27k, much less so.

]]> By: kelly http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-512 kelly Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:50:46 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-512 John is wrong. Oregon State does not have different in-state/out-of-state tuition costs for their ONLINE degrees. They do have different tuition scales for on campus degrees. The $40,000 John is referencing would be for an out-of-state on campus student, but $17,000 is still the rate for the ONLINE degree this article is talking about.

]]> By: Cory S http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-471 Cory S Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:16:08 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-471 Glad I saw this. I was looking into the program, but 40K is overpriced for a post-baccalaureate.

]]> By: Chad http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-455 Chad Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:51:45 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-455 will the post-bacc degree online have any opportunities for internships? I am afraid that is why I never got a job offer from my first degree (Film Studies) I never had any real world experience. and now 10 years later I am in a manufacturing job with layoff rumors every day. I wonder if I could intern while keeping my current job?

]]> By: Glencora Borradaile http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-448 Glencora Borradaile Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:11:02 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-448 I was disappointed to hear this news too. I didn’t quite know what to say about it. The socialist in me cringes. Perhaps they could find a way to keep the cost low for residents of Oregon? I don’t really have a problem with higher tuition for those from outside.

]]> By: John Elmer http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-447 John Elmer Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:42:21 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-447 Not any more! Out of state students pay almost 40,000 dollars. Recent changes to credit cost are now more than twice as before.

]]> By: Glencora Borradaile http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-433 Glencora Borradaile Tue, 01 May 2012 14:03:54 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-433 If I hear the phrase “job-ready graduate” one more time …

There is definitely an emphasis at OSU (and at other North American institutions) on developing applicable skills. Many schools have very strong internship programs — OSU arranges two 6-month internships with (mostly Oregonian) companies for about half of the undergraduates. We also have an industrial board for our School of EECS and the people on that board definitely influence the choice of languages in our courses and the special topics that are made available in the upper years. I’m pretty protected from all this in the courses that I teach, though, so I’m not quite the person to ask.

]]> By: anonymous moose http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comment-431 anonymous moose Tue, 01 May 2012 01:00:04 +0000 http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955#comment-431 “This degree provides an opportunity for the un- or under-employed to retrain for less than the cost of a new car.”

I’m curious about this statement, since where I come from (Israel), CS is not considered a ‘vocational’ degree like law, medicine or even engineering, but rather a ‘theoretical’ degree like mathematics or philosophy. I was wondering if there is a pronounced vocational element in the CS degrees in US universities (or, specifically, in your university).

To be more specific, it is commonly thought that Israeli universities do not give CS students any real applicable skills that directly translate to the job market or provide any “training” for the job market, but rather that a CS degree teaches students to think. The common view is that if they decide to go into industry, they can get the skills they need easily enough after that (I’m not sure if this common view is based on any real knowledge). It is also believed that it is hard, maybe impossible under current constraints, to provide students with actual applicable knowledge in the course of a university degree, even if professors wanted to. I was wondering if some US universities are better at this, or maybe there is just less awareness of the gap between the type of ostensibly applied knowledge that universities do give, and knowledge that is actually useful in today’s industry.

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