by Pete Musto, Voice of America
The communications company AT&T gave the Georgia Institute of Technology $4 million to create an online degree program in 2014. In the past few years, the program has become a true success story, says Joshua Goodman, an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University. Goodman says online degree programs have faced two major barriers. First, it has often been lesser-known, lower-quality, or for-profit universities that have offered online programs. Second, well-known, high-quality schools charged the same price for online and in-person programs. But the Georgia Tech program may have solved these problems, Goodman says. Many experts consider the university to have one of the best computer science master’s degree programs in the country. Also, Georgia Tech began offering the online program at less than one sixth of the cost of the traditional program.
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