r/OMSCS

Im looking into doing OMSCS to get my masters degree since it is a lot cheaper than many other options. My main concern is that a lot of the benefit with doing a in person masters is being able to attend things like the career fairs, company info sessions, get acquainted with professors etc.

Does anyone have experience with physically flying out to Georgia when the main career fairs take place? Would this recoup most of the lost employer networking potential or would I be better off just attending in person.

Hi Folks,
I am starting Fall 2026 and wanted to know if there are other folks in this region taking the course or are already in the program. Wanted to connect and have fruitful discussions.

I was surprised to see so much activity in other places with existing “chapters”. Any meet ups in NYC?

EDIT: there is a meetup this Thursday.
Join the #nyc slack channel as suggested (details below) to see details

I am in Austin Texas do we have a group that meets here?

I'm going to be out of the country during the beginning of the semester. I'm a bit concerned about being able to get the first assignment done in time. For those that have taken the course, is it realistic to finish this assignment in one day?

I'm a new student signing up for classes. Despite many courses showing open seats and no waitlist, I keep getting Open - Reserved for Wait List errors. Is the portal just slow to update, or is this some other issue?

I wasn't able to grab even a second class and had to sign up for one class, my 4th choice, as a result. I don't even see an option to waitlist myself anywhere.

Anyone know what's up?

Edit for anyone who googles this:

During registration, classes may have a fair number of open seats (even as high as 50+) but large waitlists. Students have to manually accept/register from there. It’s not quite like some colleges that automatically register you if you’re on the waitlist and a spot opens during the registration period.

Also, make sure to expand the full seats and waitlist column width so you can fully read it.

Hey, I've requested approval to take a 3rd course for Fall 2026, but I haven't heard anything about the approval yet and it's a day into Phase II. Has anyone else heard anything about it?

How are seminars in general and do you recommend any of these 2 seminars for a first year as an additional course with GIOS majoring in computing systems? I've read these 2 are new.

I plan on taking seminars every other semester for topics that interest me.

I am locked out of the payment page because MFA is not sending any tokens to my email. I haven’t had a chance to set it up and it defaulted to the email method.

Is anyone having similar issues or is it just me? I have emailed bursar.ask but got no response yet, but I wanted to check just in case.

Thanks.

Any students in Miami that want to meet up?

I just started the program. Looking for folks who may want to do study sessions etc

The Fall semester starts next Monday. If I haven't gotten any news about my TA application, should I assume I've been rejected?

I'm interested in knowing so I can better schedule my semester plans.

G'day folks, anyone else starting OMSCS Spring 2027 from Australia? If so, would love to connect!

It looks like 6515 is still showing a size of 200. Anyone know when we might expect that to be increased?

I am pretty high on the waitlist so I hope its before ffaf.

I have an M4 Macbook Pro, and i see this on the course site

A few notes on Virtual Machines (VMs):

• Apple ARM-based SoCs are NOT supported in this course.
• Due to technical limitations, only an Intel-based VM is provided.
• You will be provided VMs in this class that were built using VirtualBox.
• This course DOES NOT support or test with any other virtualization software.

And in the syllabus

WARNING

CRITICAL COMPATIBILITY NOTICE: Apple ARM-based SoCs are NOT supported in this class.

Read some reviews from other students and it seems like there are cloud hosted VMs we can shell into, is that true?

Hey, I know this is a bit off-topic for the study stuff, but does anyone know if there's a soccer team, event, or even casual play at GTech? I'm looking for a group to join for that kind of thing!

Hey all,

I just accepted my offer of admission yesterday for Spring 2027!

I have been browsing this subreddit for similar questions, and I see mixed responses where some people say they added it to their resume and LinkedIn the day they got their acceptance letter, and others did not add it until their first semester completed. I was wondering what the general consensus is in the current job market.

I have no relevant job experience and have been having a rough time applying with just my BSCS, which is why I am thinking of doing this for the resume boost.

As the title suggests, I want to know how often do some courses (eg: from this list: https://omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-machine-learning) get evaluated for online delivery as well for OMSCS students. Would love to have the ability to courses like CS 7535 Markov Chain Monte Carlo, CS 7540 Spectral Algorithms, CS 7545 Machine Learning Theory and Probabilistic Graph Models?

Have people gotten permission to take on-campus courses like above recently (within last 5 years)?

Thanks!

PS: I have seen some previous posts addressing it, but wanted to check if case anyone has any idea about the above list 4 courses.