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<p>I think there are two areas that this message board has flaws:</p>
<p>1) being strictly academic
2) not looking at the business world</p>
<p>Some more points…</p>
<p>1) Many companies could care less if your degree from Georgia Tech says “Professional Master of Systems Engineering” or “M.S. in Systems Engineering”. All they care about is that employee X has graduate engineering degree…and we “may” acknowledge a tiny bit that it was from GaTech.</p>
<p>2) Often times, the distance/online tuition amount is less than the full-time student who is funded. On top of that, there is no risk allowing these experienced engineers take courses. They are not hogging up classroom seating space. The school won’t have them as TA’s.</p>
<p>Again, college is a business. The BEST indicator that a student can do graduate work is…doing graduate work.</p>
<p>It’s easy to think that the whole academic and corporate world is some linear process but it is not. There are SO many different routes, so many loopholes and so many alternative options that it is not even funny. Even I agree some of it is not fair to the exceptional academic student.</p>
<p>…but I sure took advantage of them.</p>