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Deven Jarvis

Sounds like you are off to a good start then! I'm usually up around 5-5:30am as well which gave me a couple hours before the family wakes up to do school work. Then I'd dip into evenings/weekends just during crunch time (usually mid and late semester).

My program was 32 credits/8 courses, so 4 credit hours per course. I did it in 2 years (Aug 2016 to Aug 2018) taking classes every semester including Summer so 6 semesters total. I did 2 semesters with 2 classes and the rest with just 1.

Have you decided on your specialization yet? I looked at GT OMSCS when I was choosing programs in 2016 and almost went the ML route there, but decided to go for the Data Science route at UIUC.

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Ken Bellows

I'm shooting for the Interactive Intelligence route, and may pick up ML as well. Seems to be plenty of room for multiple specializations in the schedule, which is nice.

2 years is impressive for part time! I do plan to do the summer semesters as well, but I expect I'll take a bit longer, if for no other reason than that I need 10 courses... If all goes well, I'm hoping to be done within 3 yrs, but we'll see what life offers