02:2400:00 v00:00On April 16, 2024 Penn Engineering Online hosted a webinar featuring:

Dr. Thomas Farmer, Program Director of MCIT Online and Senior Lecturer in Computer and Information Science (CIS) and Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)

Dr. Susan Davidson, Co-Founder of Penn’s Center for Bioinformatics, Weiss Professor in Computer and Information Science (CIS) and Co-Director of MSE-DS program.

Our Admissions Team welcomed Dr. Farmer and Dr. Davidson to speak with prospective students about the online Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT Online) program and online Master of Science in Engineering in Data Science (MSE-DS Online) program. Webinar participants also heard from Jacquie Panto, Associate Director of Admissions, about best practices for assembling and submitting a strong application. Learn more about our online graduate degree programs and what makes Penn Engineering Online so unique. It’s not just the way we make Ivy League academics flexible and accessible to learners from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles; or the interactive, international online community we’ve developed. It’s also our world-class faculty who are active in their fields, constantly on the cutting edge of research and innovation.

Explore the MCIT Online program here: https://online.seas.upenn.edu/degrees...
Explore the MSE-DS Online program here: https://online.seas.upenn.edu/degrees...

00:00 Introduction

02:24 Meet Dr. Susan Davidson

03:35 MSE-DS Online Overview

11:54 Meet Dr. Tom Farmer

15:20 MCIT Online Overview

21:18 Penn Engineering Online Student Experience

27:32 Road Trip Program

28:35 Application Overview

35:57 Q&A: MSE-DS Qualification / Overqualification

37:14 Q&A: MSE Implications for DS

38:30 Q&A: MCIT to Project Management Pathway?

40:11 Q&A: On-Campus vs Online

44:11 Q&A: Lecture Production & Quality

44:11 Q&A: MCIT vs MSE-DS

47:52 Q&A: MCIT Career Outcomes

51:24 Closing Remarks



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