CS degree worth the cost?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 05:39:31 +0000

How important is the bachelor’s degree, versus learning more CS, to you?

If you just want to learn more CS, you can self-study freely-available web resources for CS courses at MIT, UCB, etc…

However, if you want to complete your bachelor’s degree, another possibility would be to see if you can switch to CS (or related subject like software engineering) and complete it from where you are now. Your prior course work may be useful for some general education requirements. You may be able to take some of the lower level courses in CS and other needed subjects like math at the local community colleges at lower cost before taking the online courses from a university.

For example, here are some programs to complete a bachelor’s degree in CS that may cost less than $60,000: