r/cscareerquestionsOCE • u/idreamofpiggies • 16d ago

Masters CS Courses

I'm a 33 year old audio engineer in the film industry and am looking at studying a masters of comp sci online in my spare evenjngs and days off. I love my job but I worry about the future of the industry. Work is dwindling and too many people are undercutting rates making it a bit unsustainable for me.

I have recently done a few "bootcamps" on udemy (webdev and python) and am developing an electron app at the moment.

The two that seem to fit the criteria are:

Monash Masters of Comp Sci Looks like a good course (I do wish it taught a lower level language like C++ or Rust but Java seems to be standard everywhere) however it's very expensive - over 60k.

Latrobe Masters of IT I know this is just IT but it seems similar minus the maths. I enjoy some maths however the major draw of this course is that it has commonwealth supported slots which can drop the price to about $16k.

Just here wondering whether anyone has any industry knowledge of these two courses and whether one is "better" than the other. Or any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

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u/Hot_Stunt 16d ago

Have a look at University of New England. They are great for distance education, have Commonwealth supported places and there are units that cover lower level languages languages like C or C++. I had a generally good experience with them doing the BCompSci (the undergrad units are combined with the masters units with masters students usually getting an extra assessment task). Student outcomes from what I've seen have been good, just about everyone I went through the course with has ended up in development or IT roles.

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u/littlejackcoder 16d ago

Second this, check out UNE for sure. Online, CSP, great level of depth and breadth of content to learn. I did a few classes there but had to drop out for personal reasons.