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by mbot5324 1614 days ago
> Project Management, Quality Control and even formal real-time system analysis

While powerful and topics that need to be taught somewhere, that's not the takeaways I would've expected from a masters in computer science. I suppose we're talking about a masters of software engineering, which makes those topics feel more relevant. Perhaps that shows the importance of program selection and concentration.

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Correct. I specifically did not want an MSCS since I didn't think it would be very relevant for me.

TBH, I didn't intend to get a degree when I started. I took a couple of interesting courses, but then all the other ones that looked good (like real time systems analysis) had required prerequisites. Once you've taken those prerequisites, you might as well just take all the credits required for the degree.

Software Project Management was one of the required classes and it turned out to be one of the most interesting ones of all!