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GATech brought in $68M from their $6,800 CS degree?

"OMS Cybersecurity is Georgia Tech’s third at-scale online degree program. It will follow the same model as the groundbreaking online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program, which launched in 2014 on Udacity with support from AT&T and has enrolled approximately 10,000 students overall for the $6,800 degree."

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You don't pay the full cost up front, and there is a substantial dropout rate + it typically takes at least 3 years to finish OMSCS. So the real number is probably a fair bit below $68M right now.

Some of that goes to Udacity.

Also, $6800 is on the optimistic side, probably achievable only by maxing out the number of courses that can be taken simultaneously (I believe the concurrent limit just went down, too). For the average person taking it one-class-at-a-time, it's a bit over $8K.

It comes out higher than that. Mine was about $10k all-in.

Textbooks? I've been paying $811/class so far.

Same here. Did the degree previously require 12 courses instead of the current requirement of 10? I feel like when I first started looking into the program before I joined it was 36 credit hours, not 30.

Good call, it looks like that is exactly what happened [0]. I wonder what drove that change?

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/2ydahe/how_long_time...

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