CU Boulder Masters on Coursera

[spohara]

Another update on the ME-EM: I did 6 credits last session. I had some tail winds: I was on travel and had a week and change away from the family, had a long drive to listen to course content, got a big head start in one class (all non-credit content finished before session started) and took 2 very light classes. Head winds: I was working 60 hours a week on that travel, had to take a 3 week break from coursework (out of an 8 week session) when I got back for family obligations.

I finished the last of the coursework 6 days before the session ended. The pace while I was actually doing work was about 5 credits worth of course material done in ~4 weeks while working over 40hrs a week on average. I think this program is highly accelerable, and the course load is very manageable. The other Coursera based programs are also linked, and I've taken some electives and will take more from the other disciplines. So far my sense is the difficulty ranks as follows (hardest to easiest): MSEE,MSDS,MSCS,ME-EM. The MSCS electives look really interesting IMO, and all the programs let you take electives from the others.