{"692872":{"#nid":"692872","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SCS Colloquium - Zvi Galil ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn January 2014, Georgia Tech launched an online Master of Science in Computer Science for under $7,000 \u2014 a fraction of the $40,000 charged by comparable public universities and $70,000 at private institutions. What began with 5 courses and 380 students has become, by every measure, the largest academic degree program in the world in any subject:\u0026nbsp;52\u0026nbsp;courses, 19,000 enrolled students, and 16,500 graduates \u2014 more than 7,000 in the last three years alone. Applications\u0026nbsp;doubled\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;the last 4 years\u0026nbsp;to\u0026nbsp;over\u0026nbsp;11,000\u0026nbsp;and are still climbing after more than a decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarvard researchers concluded that OMSCS is the first rigorous evidence that an online degree program can increase educational attainment, projecting it will raise the number of annual MS CS graduates in the United States by at least 7%. The program has catalyzed more than 50 similar programs at over 30 universities worldwide. In November 2023, Forbes called it the best degree program ever.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk describes how OMSCS came about, what Georgia Tech has learned from twelve years of running it, and what it reveals about the future of higher education \u2014 a future in which online learning plays a far larger and more consequential role than most institutions have yet imagined.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis talk describes how OMSCS came about, what Georgia Tech has learned from twelve years of running it, and what it reveals about the future of higher education\u2014a future in which online learning plays a far larger and more consequential role than most institutions have yet imagined.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Zvi Galil\u0027s talk will focus on Georgia Tech\u0027s online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS). "}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2026-09-28 18:35:23","changed_gmt":"2026-09-28 19:47:09","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-10-09T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-10-09 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-10-09 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-10-09 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"KACB 1447","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"322011","name":"College of Computing Events"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"194683","name":"Talk"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}