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>>Read more at: https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/news/oms-cs-women-among-15k-attending-grace-hopper-2016

20 OMS CS scholarship students also met face-to-face for the first time at the 2016 Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in Austin, Texas. Students from across the world converged in Texas to meet their GT Computing community and celebrate diversity in computing.

>> See more at: https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/features/diversity-matters-tapia

F2F: For the 1st Time

Twenty OMS CS women converged in October 2016 at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Georgia Tech continues to remove barriers that traditionally separate online students from a complete higher education experience. Scholarship winners traveled from as far as India to participate in three days of celebration in Houston, Texas.

Audra Brown is a full-time instructional technologist at New Mexico’s Clovis Community College and an OMS CS student. The TVSKVEQŭW�ƥI\MFMPMX]�LEW�given her the time to work as a weekly humor columnist, herd Longhorn and Black Angus cows, and maintain LIV�FPEGO�FIPX�MR�XEI�O[SR�HS��which has helped her earn the title of “World Champion

>> Read more at: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/feature/spotlight-audra-brown

In Fall 2017, OMS CS launched its digital OMS CS Career Seminar Series, in which current and former students share advice on leveraging the program to advance their careers. Delivered via the Shindig platform, these seminars are free and open to any OMS CS student around the world.

OMS CS: A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

In 2013, Georgia Tech and its partners, Udacity and AT&T, determined to make high-level advanced education in computer science accessible to a much larger body of students. The result  ��ȱ���ȱ ����Ȃ�ȱę���ȱaccredited master’s degree in CS through the “massive online” platform – for less than $7,000. Total.

Four years on, Georgia Tech’s online MS in Computer Science (OMS CS) program boasts a worldwide community of nearly 6,000 students; more than 17,000 applications; a curriculum of 30 courses (and growing) —and ���ȱę���ȱ���������ȱ ��ȱare proving the value of OMS CS in the marketplace.

Why did we do it? Read the stories and see the numbers in this report, and you’ll see why.

Spring 2017 graduates Vanessa Anderson and Miguel Morales represent a new wave of students receiving their M.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech, thanks to OMS CS. In a special segment on “Rethinking College,” PBS NewsHour recently caught up with professors Charles Isbell and Ashok Goel, as well as current student Eboni Bell (pictured) and program graduates like Anderson and 1SVEPIW�XS�GLEX�EFSYX�XLI�MQTEGX�SJ�317�'7�SR�LMKLIV�IHYGEXMSR�

OMS CS has graduated nearly 600 students—most of whom

were “early adopters” who believed the program would

succeed from the moment it was announced. Graduation

rates are expected to rise sharply as later—and much larger—

cohorts progress through the program.

>> Read more @: https://www.cc.gatech.edu/feature/college-computing-sends-newest-graduates

PBS NewsHour Highlights OMS CS as Part of “Rethinking Education” Series

>>Read more at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/online-graduate-programs-offer-degrees-significant-savings/

Zvi Galil John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing and Professor

>> Read Miguel’s story, here: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/feature/spotlight-miguel-morales

From his start as an 18-year-old

cyber café owner in Venezuela,

to an engineer and developer

working on world-changing

technology, to a newly minted

master’s degree graduate from

Georgia Tech, Morales has

relentlessly pursued his dreams.

Now they’ve become a reality--in

part, thanks to OMS CS.

OMS CS graduates582 and counting...

From an Internet Cafe to OMS CS: Miguel Morales’ Relentless Pursuit of Success

OMS CSDigital CareerSeminars

OMS CS: BY THE NUMBERS2017 2017

California: Palo Alto

San Diego

Miami, Fla.

Massachusetts:Boston Cambridge

New York:Rochester

New York City

Washington, D.C. (2x)

Paris, FranceLondon, England

Netherlands:Amsterdam Groningen The Hague

Zurich, Switzerland

Hagenberg, Austria

Italy: Pisa

RomeSiena Israel:

HaifaJerusalem

India:BangaloreDelhi HyderabadMysoreVaranasi

Brisbane, Australia

Beijing, China

Shanghai, China

Seoul, South Korea

Nairobi, Kenya

United States 3,770

Kenya16

Mexico 35

India 628

Australia30

China 623

Canada 121

Nepal31

South Korea

52

Pakistan26

Vietnam 24

Taiwan 14

Egypt 17

Singapore 16

Nigeria 16

Russia 24

Brazil 21

Colombia 14

United Kingdom 17

Israel15

Germany15

OMS CS NEWS ARTICLES

1,050

STUDENT Applications

17,237 TOP 10 STUDENT EMPLOYERS

AT&T 204 IBM 77Microsoft 68General Electric 68Lockheed Martin 54Intel Corp. 51Google 45 General Motors 39 U.S. Army 37Capital One 35

98.8% of OMS CS students rate the program a “good” or “exceptional” value

– November 2015 survey

RACE & ETHNICITY GENDER RESIDENCY

White 46.5% Underrepresented Minorities 14.8%

Asian 38.7%

Male 85.6% Female 14.4%

27.9% International

72.1% U.S. Citizen/ Permanent Resident

AVERAGEAGE:

33

5,866 TOTAL ENROLLMENT (FALL 2017)

% OF GA. RESIDENTS IN DOMESTIC ENROLLMENT

14%582

GRADUATES TO DATE

# OF ADVANCED DEGREES AMONG STUDENTS:

700+

124 Ph.D. holders

OMSCS.GATECH.EDU PAGEVIEWS:

8.8m since launch

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* TOP 25 COUNTRIES OF RESIDENCE

7% projected increase in number of United States MS CS degree holders due to OMS CS, according to Harvard University research

TOP 10 U.S. STATES OF RESIDENCE

California 601Georgia 590Texas 269New York 224Virginia 203Florida 199New Jersey 132Massachusetts 126Washington 125Illinois 103

6,679

3,085

974

3,725

SOCIAL COMMUNITIES

ENROLLMENT

4,5153,944

5,866

2,2923,3582,841

2015 2016 20172015 2016 2017

FALLSPRING

1709-1421

Turkey10

Malaysia 10

Italy10 Iran

17

New JerseyIllinois

Pennsylvania

206�3URIHVVRU�$VKRN�*RHO� XVHG� DQ� DUWLÀFLDO� LQWHOOLJHQFH�based teaching assistant, “Jill Watson,” (powered by IBM’s

Watson) to help manage thousands of questions submitted

to OMS CS discussion boards by the hundreds of students in

KLV�´.QRZOHGJH�%DVHG�$UWLÀFLDO�,QWHOOLJHQFHµ�FRXUVH��$IWHU�being featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, Jill Watson became somewhat of a star, appearing in dozens of

additional news stories.

>> Read more at: http://www.news.gatech.edu/2017/01/09/jill-watson-round-three

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Imagine Discovering That

Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot

Dean Zvi Galil continues to travel the world as a champion for OMS CS. This past year, he was invited to visit The Netherlands, Israel, and China (along with OMS CS professor Jimeng Sun) to meet with current students, prospective students, and alumni and friends of GT Computing.

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