{"id":8746,"date":"2025-12-01T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/mseds_or_omscs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:02:47","slug":"mseds_or_omscs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/mseds_or_omscs\/","title":{"rendered":"MSE-DS or OMSCS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

MSE-DS or OMSCS?
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I’ve gotten a lot of mixed responses about this on other subreddits, so I wanted to ask here<\/p>\n

I was recently accepted to UPenn’s online part-time MSE-DS program. I graduated from college this past May from a top 20 school with a degree in data science. To be honest, I originally applied to this program because I was having a tremendous amount of trouble landing a job in the data science industry (makes sense, since data scientist isn’t an entry level role). However, I lucked out and eventually received an offer for a junior data scientist position.<\/p>\n

I like my current job, but the location isn’t ideal. I’m a lot farther away from my family, and I’m only seeing them once or twice a year, and that has been very hard for me to deal with on top of adjusting to a much colder northeastern city. I was hoping a master’s will help me job hop back to where my family is in a year or two, and that’s also a reason why I have decided to not take a break from school. With the deadline to deposit coming, I am having a really hard time deciding whether this program is for me. I have listed some pros and cons below:<\/p>\n

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  1. employer reimbursement – I will only have to pay around 20k for the entire program<\/li>\n
  2. UPenn name and prestige<\/li>\n
  3. asynchronous lectures, which is actually a plus for me because I tend to zone out during synchronous lectures lol<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. After talking to some people who attended my undergrad school and this program, it seems like there’s a lot of overlap in terms of course content. So, i’d be learning a lot of the same things all over again<\/li>\n
    2. I want to become a data scientist, so maybe a CS program would improve my coding skills more. I’ve heard GT omscs is good, but I also heard it’s hard and classes are huge, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle work with omscs.<\/li>\n
    3. Penn name doesn’t matter as much since I have already broken into the DS industry, but at the same time GT name isn’t as impressive on the resume<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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      MSE-DS or OMSCS? I’ve gotten a lot of mixed responses about this on other subreddits, so I wanted to ask here I was recently accepted to UPenn’s online part-time MSE-DS program. I graduated from college this past May from a top 20 school with a degree in data science. To be honest, I originally applied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,99],"tags":[84,108,2304],"class_list":["post-8746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aimldsaimlds","category-datascience","tag-data","tag-my","tag-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}