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Online Masters Degree?
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Anyone know of any good accredited schools that offer a good Masters Program for Information Technology/Systems and Communication?
I want to go back to school next year for my masters. I still live in the same area where I went to Undergrad(and my entire life really). I have heard it is hard to get into the Graduate Program at my school if you went there for undergrad. The other schools in the area do not offer the program I need.
Can anyone recommend any good schools that will allow me to receive a masters degree over the internet?
I want to go back to school next year for my masters. I still live in the same area where I went to Undergrad(and my entire life really). I have heard it is hard to get into the Graduate Program at my school if you went there for undergrad. The other schools in the area do not offer the program I need.
Can anyone recommend any good schools that will allow me to receive a masters degree over the internet?
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They do not exist.
If you're serious about a graduate degree, you should consider leaving town.
Yeah, they do.
http://www.online.uillinois.edu/catalog/ProgramDetail.asp?ProgramID=38
Or how about CSU?
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/cstop/csacademics/csdegrees/onlinemcs.html
Those are just a couple I know of. And both UofI and CSU have good CS departments. Both of those programs are geared towards professionals, so you need to have your shit together when you start them because they won't do any handholding during the program.
Fair point, but it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
You don't get any peer support, or build any new friendships.
Or have networking skills taught to help you get jobs.
Or be able to go to office hours.
Or work in teams.
Distance learning is a system for people who absolutely cannot make it to a campus to learn. The OP isn't in that position, he/she just doesn't feel like leaving town and building a life for themselves. For everyone else, it sucks. Hard. UCSC has a campus in Silicon Valley, and some of the IT classes are taught there and beamed to UCSC. It's awful. There are a lot of communication problems with video feeds still, if your professor doesn't feel like emailing (and most don't), you're SOL.
I will give you that programs from good universities exist. Good programs for the OP do not.
Even if what you heard is true, I think you should still apply to your old university. There's nothing to lose.
What would be even better is to read up about the research being done in the department and personally contact a professor whose research sounds interesting to you. Ask him (or her) if he's looking for graduate students and tell him you'd like to work with him. If a professor agrees to supervise your graduate work, it greatly increases your chances of being accepted by the department.
I wouldn't recommend doing a graduate degree online. You'd miss out on a huge chunk of what graduate studies are about (research, collaboration, seminars, etc.).
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And how many years out of school are you? Are you just out of school? Out of school and working for a couple of years? Been working in the field for 10 years or more?
Here's the long and short of it from my experience (which is as someone who's been working in the field for 10+ years now). If you've got at least 5 years of professional experience under your belt and you want to get a terminal Masters degree for professional reasons, online is perfectly fine. You're not going to give a shit about the team-building crap with the other students and you won't care about placement programs or anything else and you'll have enough experience doing the work on your own in a job to be disciplined enough to get it done and turned in on time.
If you're just out of school or you want to go on in a PhD program, you're not going to get what you need from an online program.
I currently have a well paying job in my home town, doing work I went to school for. I am a systems administrator in a Windows environment doing a lot of networking and server infrastructure stuff.
I want a Masters Degree for professional reasons already. I want to keep my job as there are a lot of things I can get experience with. I will look into those schools already, thanks for posting those.
What's important is that they're regionally accredited and not just nationally/locally.