Ms data science for 15k

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It's amazing to see how many affordable data science masters degrees have popped up over the past few years.

I was looking for a program back in 2020 and the only ones that had reasonable prices were Eastern University with their brand new program and Georgia Tech with their omsa, both programs for $10,000 (but the omsa would take him hell of a lot longer).

Now there's so many options that would have actually been hard for me to make a decision on which one to choose.  They're now multiple solid state universities offering Masters degrees in data science for under $20,000.  We live in a great time for distance education.

I think there are 2 reasons for the reasonable price tag:
1) Competition. Colleges raced to the new blue sea that is data science
2) The relative ease of forming a data science faculty. As there are no data science PhD until recently, anyone with a PhD who works with data (which is just about everybody) can teach data science courses. Case in point: Program director at Eastern University had his PhD in Psychology

Outside of data science-related masters (such as DS and CS) and MBA, most establishment colleges still charge a ransom for regular online masters program. For example, GT charges me less than $7,000 for OMSCS but almost $35,000 for an engineering MS

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I believe now this is the best Data Science master's program for people who have zero or close to none background. There are a few others like that but this one is among the cheapest.

Online MS in CS or DS from Colorado-Boulder also charges about $15K and no CS or DS background required. Issue I had with them is the 30 1-credit-hour courses approach. Some folks may like it but I find it too fragmented.