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    Quote Originally Posted by VikPI:
    @civil_servant - I am looking for a general masters course. I think it will be tough for me to pursue research especially if you are working full-time.
    I see. Then go for the HKUST program. They have a wide range of trending fields.
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    @VikPI - Udacity / Standford and a few other places have open sourced masters levels courses.

    Would recommend you review some of them and see what interests you and more importantly what messes your mind up.

    Might help you identify your abilities and also interests.

    Stanford:

    https://lagunita.stanford.edu/

    https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning--ud262

    https://micromasters.mit.edu/?embed

    Last edited by shri; 28-06-2017 at 02:55 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    @VikPI - Udacity / Standford and a few other places have open sourced masters levels courses.

    Would recommend you review some of them and see what interests you and more importantly what messes your mind up.

    Might help you identify your abilities and also interests.

    Standford:

    https://lagunita.stanford.edu/

    https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning--ud262

    https://micromasters.mit.edu/

    Wow. This is really interesting. Thank you!

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    I have a M.Sc. in computer science from a relatively good university. While I did learn things, all in all it was a waste of time and money, although not a huge one. I seriously doubt it affected my career either way, and everything I learnt there I could have learnt myself. So unless you are planning on academic career later on or want to work for an organisation which would automatically assign you a higher pay grade based on your masters certificate (read government or such like), I don't see why you should want to do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by orel100x:
    I have a M.Sc. in computer science from a relatively good university. While I did learn things, all in all it was a waste of time and money, although not a huge one. I seriously doubt it affected my career either way, and everything I learnt there I could have learnt myself. So unless you are planning on academic career later on or want to work for an organisation which would automatically assign you a higher pay grade based on your masters certificate (read government or such like), I don't see why you should want to do it.
    Interesting, how long after you BSc did you do your MSc? For a long time I felt a lot of courses offered in an MSc were overlapping with courses offered in the final year of my BSc. Now, after 15 years, that's changing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by civil_servant:
    Interesting, how long after you BSc did you do your MSc? For a long time I felt a lot of courses offered in an MSc were overlapping with courses offered in the final year of my BSc. Now, after 15 years, that's changing.
    Right after I finished my bachelor degree.

    My point is I did learn new things, but I could have learnt them myself, for free. And my career didn't seem to benefit from the higher degree.

    I guess for someone doing some research during masters, which happens to be relevant in future work place it might make sense. But I don't get this feeling from the original post. MSc for the sake of MSc is, of course, possible, but not necessarily justifiable.

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    Hi VikPi,

    I have almost the same profile as yours (position, industry and number of years of experience) except I got a master in computer science before working

    However, may I know what is your target after obtaining your master?
    Changing position? Requirement from your company? changing industry?

    With your current experience, in my opinion having a master in computer science might not open you new opportunities as often applying to similar position only the experience will be relevant at this stage (this is what I have noticed while job hunting).
    However as some have mentioned before, you might want to learn something specific to target some position that requires such knowledge (data science, network, database, etc...)

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