which Master degree is more valuable

[Yue]

I have worked as a programmer/analyst in a financial company for a year. I
had a Master degree in Chemistry and I worked as a research chemist for 4
years before I switched career.

I am currently accepted to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign's Master
of Computer Science program(http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/education/grad/degrees/mcs.html)
and DePaul University's Master of Science in Distributed System program.
(http://www.cs.depaul.edu/programs/2001/gradDS2001.htm)

Could you guys take a look at their web sites and tell me which one of the
program is more valuable according to your opinion and why? Thanks a lot
for your time.


Yue

[Tom Peterson]

I've taken grad classes at Univ of Ill at Chicago and Depaul in CS. From my
experience DePaul is a curriculum driven by tuition and allows students to
take classes they are unprepared for but who still expect good grades because
they paid a lot of money. UIC is a tougher school that has actual standards.
I can only imagine that UI Urbana is even more so. I say go for UIUC if you
can stand the fact that it is a college town.

"Yue" <yuemao@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I have worked as a programmer/analyst in a financial company for a year.
I
>had a Master degree in Chemistry and I worked as a research chemist for
4
>years before I switched career.
>
>I am currently accepted to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign's
Master
>of Computer Science program(http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/education/grad/degrees/mcs.html)
>and DePaul University's Master of Science in Distributed System program.
>(http://www.cs.depaul.edu/programs/2001/gradDS2001.htm)
>
>Could you guys take a look at their web sites and tell me which one of the
>program is more valuable according to your opinion and why? Thanks a lot
>for your time.
>
>
>Yue