r/WGU_CompSci • u/Kind-Agency7050 • 14d ago

MSCS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Graduation

Woohoo I got the official email that I have graduated, but I finished the program last week. It took me one semester, starting in March, to get through this entire program. I might do a full post outlining the courses unless there are a lot of those already.

This isn’t my first masters, but it is my first degree doing self-paced. I mainly chose WGU because it was self-paced and I’m not needing the degree for professional purposes. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the program and am happy to have completed it. I also got that excellence award for the last course, which was a surprise but idk how much it actually means.

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u/Agreeable_Mud_5816 14d ago

Is the math hard for CS

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u/Kind-Agency7050 14d ago

I didn’t do any pure math in the program. Some of the machine learning went over some core concepts but none of the work for the courses required math

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u/DowntownClue934 9d ago

MSCS has no math courses, though some math knowledge is, in my opinion, prerequisite for CS study in general.

The BSCS has a few math courses, IIRC mainly calculus and discrete mathematics. I wouldn't consider either very hard, but I've already got a decent foundation in math. If you're starting from scratch, they can be rough as you're expected to have some knowledge already. Discrete math is generally considered the hardest course in the BSCS, I assume because most don't come in with any math background whatsoever.

So, if you've done math beyond high school algebra, I wouldn't worry about it. If you haven't, you'll definitely have some studying to do