University of Denver

I am writing this review to tell students interested in DU's MS Data Science program to stay away! The program is a joke. I stayed in the program for 2 classes. DU clearly is not ready to teach an online program. The course content is laughable. Basically they have several short videos and then the syllabus directs the student to the generic Khan Academy website (and two other websites, MIT and Lamar.edu) and that is it. I am embarrassed that anyone would charge $4000 per class for this and then... Read More lean heavily on the work of others. If a student did this, they would be expelled. Yes, third party supplemental content is always utilized (like a textbook) but at DU, they don't even bother to go into anything specific. You get the overly simple, async videos and have to spend hours searching the internet to provide the actual tools you would need to complete the program. DU should be ashamed of themselves and embarrassed by the "program" they are pushing out. Absolutely mercenary. Even more disturbing, the content they do provide has frequent errors and expired links in it. There are many MSDS programs out there that are higher ranked than DU (in fact, I cannot find DU's program ranked anywhere. I wish I spent more time looking into that. Just do a google search and that should help you.). DU is clearly coasting on their reputation. Don't saddle yourself with huge student loan debt for a program that provides very little in the way of education. By the way, when I withdrew from DU, I had a 95 in their Fundamentals of Calculus class and a 99 in their Python so this wasn't a function of "it's too hard." They just have an embarrassingly thin program.