[sythe2o0]

How can you confidently say that Udacity is clearer than Master's courses in general? How many universities have you taken Master's courses from?

[bitL]

I agree with the previous poster; there is simply no place that provides you with bleeding-edge real-world projects that are doable within a month. I have a top 10 CS university M.S. degree so I can compare; Udacity also prepares many courses with top 10 university staff (Stanford, MIT, Gatech etc.)

[projectramo]

That's a good question.

So I have only taken Master's courses at two schools, but I have taken many courses at these schools, and a few online.

The professors were from famous institutes and from unfamous ones. It was a top 20 (but not top 10) school. So assuming that it was a wide sample, I think I have some sense of how good the courses are.

You are right in that they might have even clearer teaching at the top 4 (Stanford, MIT, CMU and Berkeley), though some of the teachers I worked with had taught at some of those schools and/or got PhDs there.