Getting Started

To get some things out of the way, I’m an embedded software developer and FPGA designer in the aerospace industry. I have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and I completed Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program in December of 2023 with approximately 7 years of professional experience. This post is going to be focused on part-time graduate programs intended for people who are working full time, but I will talk about how to decide between traditional graduate programs and programs like OMSCS that are targeted at working professionals. I do have minor experience with a couple other technical graduate programs, but OMSCS is the only one I’ve completed so obviously I have some bias.