[tombert]

I have a few prospects lined up.

I'm actually planning on doing a second masters from a slightly more prestigious university with a more theory-heavy degree [1], but it's nice to at least have an official graduate degree now. Hopefully it helps me find work a bit quicker, and if nothing else it's just kind of fun to pile up degrees.

[1] https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f04

[yu3zhou4]

I was recently looking for a master's degree in math that is:

- 100% remote

- 100% self-paced

- fairly cheap

and it looks like Open University is the best option right now? Did you find any better option?

[tombert]

I couldn’t find anything that ticks all those outside of OU.

University of Texas has one that looked pretty ok, but it was kind of expensive for a non-Texas resident.

University of Western Florida has one for “Mathematical Sciences”, which more or less fits, and it’s not even that expensive, but I think that one is synchronous.

[yu3zhou4]

Yeah, I wish there were more options than that. Also, remote phd or master+phd would be even better, but these are even more uncommon and pricey (unless you know about a one that is good and cheap and remote then I’d love to learn more)

[tombert]

I was doing the University of York online PhD in computer science (formal methods), and it was actually pretty great, but it was costing me like $17,000 per year, and it was a huge time sink when I was already working full time.

That said, if you feel like you're organized enough to pull it off, I do recommend looking into University of York. It's a very good school.

[yu3zhou4]

Thanks, that's actually useful and I will be happy to consider it once I have more spare time in life!

Why did you complete WGU masters in computer science after already having a PhD in computer science?

[tombert]

I don't have a PhD, I dropped it about a year ago; sorry, rereading my comment that was not made clear.

I wanted a graduate degree in CS, and I figured I could get the WGU one quickly.