Georgia Tech Will Offer a Master’s Degree Online

Starting in the fall, the Georgia Institute of Technology, together with AT&T and Udacity, an online education venture, will offer a master’s degree in computer science that can be earned entirely through so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs. While the courses would be available free online to the general public, students seeking the degree would have to have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, and pay tuition that is expected to be less than $7,000 Initially, the program will be limited to a few hundred students from AT&T and Georgia Tech corporate affiliates, but enrollment is then expected to expand in the fall of 2014.