u/TheRealNewtt

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[Application Strategy] My Hottest Take - CMU has too many CS-Adjacent Masters programs

Edit: I looked up the prices for JUST TUITION (no housing, food, healthcare, etc) and its around $120,000-$150,000 for some of these.

Guys I swear I see a new acronym every couple of months.

I constantly see people valuing some of these programs over tried and true programs (like Georgia Tech MSCS, TAMU MCSC, etc) just because it has the "CMU name brand" (and usually for like ~$100k-150k (literally like $200,00 if you include housing, food, etc)). Moreover many of these have uncertain outcomes as they have few cohorts of alumni. Not hating on CMU at all, some of their programs are legit and the research/courses are world class, but is really worth it most of the time? Theres like 30 of em and you can barely tell the difference between some

Here some of them -->

- MSCS — M.S. in Computer Science

- MCDS — Master of Computational Data Science

- MSML — M.S. in Machine Learning

- MSAII — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation

- MIIS — M.S. in Intelligent Information Systems

- MLT — M.S. in Language Technologies

- MADS — M.S. in Applied Data Science

- MS-DAS — M.S. in Data Analytics for Science

- MSR — M.S. in Robotics

- MRSD — Master of Robotic Systems Development

- MSCV — M.S. in Computer Vision

- MHCI — Master of Human Computer Interaction

- MSLE — M.S. in Learning Engineering

- MSAIE — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Engineering

- MSE — Master of Software Engineering

- MSE Online — Online Master of Software Engineering

- MSIN — M.S. in Information Networking

- MSIS — M.S. in Information Security

- MSAIE-IS — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Engineering Information Security

- MSMITE — M.S. in Mobile and IoT Engineering

- MSIT-IS — M.S. in Information Technology Information Security

- MPE — Master’s in Privacy Engineering

- MPTP — Master in Privacy Technology and Policy

- MSSE — M.S. in Software Engineering

- MSAIE-ECE — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Engineering ECE

- MSIT — M.S. in Information Technology

- MISM — Master of Information Systems Management

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