>> The program will cost $60,000, which school officials
>> said compares favorably with other professional degree
>> programs. Entry-level data scientists in the San
>> Francisco area can command salaries in the $110,000 to
>> $130,000 range.
$60,000 is laughable.
The justification based on salaries in California is laughable.
Unless a relocation package to California from anywhere there is internet is included in the fee?
I read an article in WSJ on rent hikes in SF this morning. Yikes.
I grew up in SoCal and miss it terribly, but my cost of living in Chicago is a tiny fraction of what it would be in SF and my income isn't behind California norms.
Maybe if I was 24 and looking for experience... I suppose you can apply the same argument to finance in Manhattan.
Nurses in the SF Bay Area make that much out of a 2 yr college that costs less than $3k. Hell, a LOT of people make that in the SF Bay Area without pursuing $60k educations. Not everyone should or want to be a nurse, but when you put things like that into perspective, it makes one wonder if the costs justifies the pursuit.
The price is ludicrous, especially considering the plethora of high quality free online courses.
I think their pricing may come from the fact that data science is the 'hot' field right now, so I suspect they'll be capitalizing on the corporations that will start pumping money into training their employees in data science. So I wouldn't be surprised if you start seeing some forture 500s covering the cost of this for a new hire.
$60,000 is laughable. The justification based on salaries in California is laughable.
Unless a relocation package to California from anywhere there is internet is included in the fee?
Even then......