On May 14th,   Georgia Institute of Technology, Udacity and AT&T announced that they have teamed up to offer the first accredited Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMS CS) that students can earn exclusively through the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) delivery format and for a fraction of the cost of traditional, on-campus programs. Yesterday (July 8th, 2013) they announced more details including a list of courses.

List of Georgia Tech’s OMS in CS courses on Class Central

Timetable

Summer & Fall 2013: Production of initial OMS CS courses (listing below) and infrastructure development
January 2014: Launch of pilot cohort
Spring/Summer 2014: Begin accepting open applications
Fall 2014: Matriculation of first “open” OMS CS cohort

List of Courses from the pilot cohort

Following 6 courses will be avaliable upon pilot launch (Jan 2014):
1) Computer Networks
2) Advance Operating Systems
3) Machine Learning
4) Software Development Process
5) High Performance Computer Architecture
6) Artificial Intelligence for Robotics: Programming a Robotic Car

Courses targeted to start in May & August 2014

1) Computer Vision
2) Advanced Computational Photography
3) Computability and Algorithms
4) Artificial Intelligence
5) Machine Learning for Trading
6) Special Topics: Introduction to Database Systems
7) High-Performance Computing

Proposed specializations

Below are the specializations from which students will be able to choose to fine-tune their degrees All specializations are tentative and subject to change
1) Computational Perception & Robotics
2) Databases & Software Engineering
3) High-Performance Computing
4) Interactive Intelligence
5) Machine Learning
6) Networking
7) Social Computing
8) Systems

Additional Links

Official Announcement
OMS CS Home