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 The MIT PE in Applied Data Science Program is outstanding and is a great learning experience for me. The course is rigorous and well-structured and meets the requirements for all realms of working professionals dealing with big data.  The team has been very supportive, including the program manager, industry-mentors, and the MIT-faculty. The weekend sessions were helpful in getting the hands-on training on the concepts covered during the week. The timely quizzes and projects that served as the measures of learning, were a great source of enthusiasm that kept me going forward with a sense of accomplishment. I would highly recommend this course.


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Online Applied Data Science program is a great course from Great Learning. I’m a Biology graduate. I wanted to pursue my career in Healthcare Data Science. That’s why, I chose this course. I have no prior knowledge of Data Science. At the beginning of the course, it was challenging. But my professors and mentors made it easy to understand. Especially my Program Manager Nitish helped me whenever I needed assistance. Now, I’m confident to change my career. I highly recommend this program. Thanks to Great Learning.  Read less

An amazing leaning journey from start to finish! To go from an "interested in AI/ML" to building a strong foundational knowledge of the end to end process and building real ML models for Classification, Prediction, Recommendation, using real world data from Netflix, Amazon and more in a relatively short time span is remarkable. The MIT Instructors were without exception, brilliant, dedicated and passionate, the mentors most of which were grad students from MIT and the program managers from MyGreatLearning were fantastic. Shout out to Jatin, my PM, who communicated with me one on one on more than a few occasions and helped me through some rough spots. As a life long learner who is already fairly well established in the business world, I would recommend this course without hesitation for anyone, whether you are just looking to "reskill" or like me, just naturally curious and always seeking what's next. Life is a journey, stay curious and keep learning! Read less

I am extremely impressed with the quality of the courses offerred by Great learning. The program managers and the faculty are world class. I have got continuouly help from my program manager during and after my program. The program contents are vary educative and well described. The mentor sessions are additional help for the students to keep up the with the lectures. Overall, I very satisfied with Great learning team. Read less

MIT's Applied Data Science Program, supported by Great Learning, was everything and more than I expected. The MIT professors and Great Learning mentors and staff were knowledgeable and engaging. I loved being able to leverage my knowledge of statistics, gain an introduction to Python and apply it within the course, and bring everything together in an elective and a final capstone project. All the materials are recorded to be able to review at any time and there are more than enough pre-work instruction videos and practice problems, with solutions, to gain familiarity and grounding in areas with which a student may be less familiar (whether that is with statistics or coding in Python). 

My Great Learning mentor and program advisor was essential in helping me navigate the program and meet all of the benchmarks. I would recommend this course to any professionals seeking to crystallize knowledge, while solving real-world business problems in a simulated environment, and being able to receive feedback from experts in their respective fields, specializing in Data Analysis and Visualization, Practical Data Science, Recommendation Systems, and Deep Learning. I'm so very grateful this program exists! Read less

The platform itself and the combination of cohort was a fantastic blend for learning. Apart from the support by Great Learning, the content/curriculum was carefully designed to hit the nail with precision. 


Sandhya, who was the young lady in charge of my group was always there whenever she was needed. I remember when I had an issue with my first project which was about Pima Indians and Diabetes Mellitus. If not for her, I would have lost 40 marks just like that. But, she stood her grounds and re-assured me that it will be fixed and in no time, she fixed it.


I cannot thank her enough. SANDHYA is indeed an asset to Great Learning and MIT-IDSS.


Thank you all!


 


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This course is one of the best courses that I have participated. All of the course materials, and provided documents were quite helpful and comprehensive. One of the best parts was the amazing academic support of the course and particularly the course manager who really was supportive during the entire course. I really recommend this course to all interested persons to ML and DL. Read less

I have enrolled into this Cybersecurity bootcamp hoping that i would get an entry level job after i graduated. not only that i didn't , i didn't even have the technical skills needed to do anything related to IT. this program is a complete waste of time and money. 

I was about to leave it in the middle but by then i have already invested so much time into it while the support issured me that it will get better and i will get some kind of hands on experience at the end. i will try to lay down the points below : 

- Videos are informative, some boring 
- out of 100% of hands on trainings this course will provide you with 5% top. 
- compared to other programs its the cheapest but i found out why after i finished the course because i didn't learn anything new besides the general information about cybersecurity.


My advise to anyone who wants to change careers and get into cyber security go learn Security + or CCNA on Youtube for free and take the exams that will guarantee you an entry level job not this program.  Read less

They told me time and again I didn’t need any experience for this course. This was not the case, I didn’t wind up passing as the instructions are not well laid out, they give next to no instructions on trouble shooting and possible problems you will run into. I would not recommend wasting your money unless you have experience in coding or the ability to spend far more than the recommended amount of time on each module. I’m now $6,500 in debt for a course I didn’t pass, I feel conned, it was most definitely not for beginners, especially beginners who have full time jobs.  Read less

The structure of program is well designed for a newcomer to understand the concepts of dat science and machine learning. In addition to that lectures from MIT professors are really thought provoking and enables learners to think outside of the box to solve some real challenges in their field. Read less

I enjoyed the course. There were enough challenges to keep me engaged. The learning facilitators were usually quick to respond of I ever needed help. You don't necessarily have to have experience in coding before starting the course, but it will help at the beginning if you are vaguely familiar with another coding language. This isn't entirely beginner friendly,  but beginners should be able to complete this if they put in the work to get up to speed in the first 4 weeks. The projects that cap off the second and third sections are fantastic, and have drawn a lot of interest from potential employers. In particular, the final project which integrates everything learned in the course with a fully functional payment Integration has drawn a lot of interest. I've only been out of the program a month, and haven't yet been given a reasonable job offer, but I'm confident that the skills I've learned will help me find a position soon. It isn't a cheap course, but they uave made me job ready, and I understand now other areas I can improve as I progress on this career path.

I find myself looking at other websites now and thinking about how some of them could be improved using what I've learned.  Read less

I used to think Certificate Programs are money traps. Easy and everyone in the program passes.
Not with this one.
2 years of Master's Level Courses packed into 2 months of lectures from MIT Professors, and coding exercises mentored by Industry Professionals. 15 hrs of lectures, 15 hrs of coding per week.
Great spread and depth in AI/ML.
Thanks to our great program manager, @Jasna Aneer GreatLearning for her patience with our late submissions. :) Read less

I've read all the other reviews for this program and I seriously don't know what some of these other people came in expecting. It's an MIT program, with lectures from actual MIT professors, of course it's hard, of course they assume you already know things, they are used to teaching the top 1% of students in the world. A certificate from MIT wouldn't be valuable if it was an easy course. 

I just finished my program and it was definitely a slog. I had to do a lot of extra learning but I have a lot of developer friends who helped me to understand that that is normal so I wasn't mad about it. The NextTech tool is really bad and I hope they replace it, but otherwise, I feel like I got what I paid for. And now I'm working with a career coach and already starting to get some interviews for developer roles. The MIT cert definitely turns heads. For 7 grand and a bunch of my free time, I'd say that's worth it. 

If you are a total beginner or don't have more than 20 a week to put in or are someone who needs/wants a lot of structure and hand-holding then you probably shouldn't do this course. Otherwise, I think it does a good job of trying to support you through the lectures from the faculty and in the end it got me to where I want to be.  Read less

For those who may consider this program, I would strongly NOT recommend it. I started participating in this program since August-2021. I am on the 3rd and last semester currently, and will graduate in 2 months. So everything I say here is based on my observation as well as personal experience thus far.

The reason I decided to take MIT full-stack classes is that I deeply know for doing Full-Stack, I need to have some help to watch over my shoulder to see what I have been doing. I was happy to hear that we have a teaching assistant as well as a success coach to make sure our success. And here is what happened after I participated in the program:

Our new weekly material is posted every Thursday, which usually leaves all of us extremely confused with the content. Routinely, our teaching assistant will post this week's content review step by step on Tuesday, since this is her 2nd job, and she has no time to post anything earlier than that (we double confirmed with her at the beginning of the program). That leaves us one and a half days to finish all the homework, which is almost impossible to do. Even though we managed to do some, it usually starts to have tons of questions, and we expect her to fast reply so we won't pass the deadline. Yet, she will answer them on the same day as the deadline, which leaves us no time to go further to finish our homework, since we are usually stuck in the middle of the problem-solving. Students have been trying to reach out to the Sucess Coach for help as well as figure out if there is any way to improve this. No positive feedback. 

I have been seeing angry students leaving one after another without any feedback or help from this program. Eventually,  the students who are remaining have no choice but try grading the teaching assistant a low grade to raise the attention that we need help. Yes, we got a message from her and asked if there is anything she can help with. However, she was not aware of the frustration we are having. In addition, here is the proof of her work is getting worse and worse.

Ever since 2022, our teaching assistant started disappearing in our QA section. She didn't answer any of the questions on Week 14 (due on 1/13/2022), week 15 (due on 1/20/2022), week 19 (due on 2/17/2022), and week 23 (due on 4/8/2022). On week 15, she appeared, and here is the quote 
"
Last week's discussion board was left unanswered by me, as I didn't sign up to get notifications by mistake. I apologize! 🙇‍♂️


If you still have questions about last week, please reach out to me directly! But I've seen you replied to each other, which is awesome! Keep up the great individual and teamwork!

" 

And yet, she didn't answer any of the questions in either Week 14 or Week 15. What an irony! 

I also tried to reach out to her through Slack, since that's the platform we were told to reach out to for faster assistance. The last conversation I had with her was on November 25, 2021. Four days after I raised my questions, she answered me, but it was already passed the deadline. After that, I was not able to contact her, I tried to reach out on December 18, 2021, and March 29, 2022. All my questions are remaining unanswered.

Last week, we had homework that almost none of our students were able to figure out, and there was one student who has been very persistent in this program until this moment (only 2 months away from finishing line), stormed out angry, and quit. I eventually turned in my half-done homework and asked for help for the grader (that's how desperate I am). The grader told me that I need to reach to my teaching assistant. So this is not going anywhere.

At this moment, I don't believe her promise of work as well as her attitude toward this job. I have no willingness to work with her in any circumstances anymore. And If this problem is still remaining,  I will consider taking legal action.

For other problems, such as the materials being outdated, I would not repeat others' words, because those are all true.  Read less

This is a really good moneymaking machine. Using MIT’s name to get people to enroll. Then when you contact support and had to withdraw, they wont even review special circumstances and you will have to deal with a robot-like email replies from their main office in Singapore. 

I was enrolled in Professional Cybersecurity Program and Now I am stuck in paying $3700 (i got partially reimbursed) for something I cant even use.

The assigments are too much and very redundant. Not much hands on assigments. It’s all what if situation. 

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DO NOT ENROLL IN THIS COURSE.   Not even close to worth the price tag.  There are so many great free options out there.  I wish I had taken more time to research but freeCodeCamp and Full Stack Open through the University of Helsinki are free and the content is much higher quality.  Much of the onus seems to be on the MIT professors teaching the course.  They just slapped this stuff together and their videos are unfocused and rambling.  There are helpful Emeritus staff and the office hours are ok but overall this has been a really, really bad experience.  MIT should be ashamed of having their brand associated with this course. On top of that, they only offer refunds in the first 2 or 3 weeks after the course starts-- it's a 32 week long program.  Going to file a complaint about this.  Every time I see a FB ad I will leave this review. Read less

This program is highly professional and organized.  I've thoroughly enjoyed my time with the program so far.  I'm looking forward to my time left prior to graduation.  All of the staff and faculty are very nice and helpful.  If you're looking to get into Web Development, I would highly recommend this program! Read less

Coming from customer service and retail, I had my try at self learning from other free online materials. This bootcamp has been a good stepping stone into learning software development. Difficulty may depend on personal interests and learning style but overall not too difficult that you can't make it. Instructors are there to help and class size is great for networking. Overall, glad I chose this bootcamp over my other choices. Read less

I choose this bootcamp for the name recognition of MIT, the broad coverage of the curriculum content, and the reasonable price tag. I could hardly be happier. The content is current, organized effectively, and the lessons are structured in such a way that you you don’t spend the whole time doing a ‘code-along’, but instead understand the problems you are solving as new technologies are introduced. 

Before this course, I tried to learn the cornerstone web technologies, HTML/CSS/JS independently and struggled to really comprehend web development. Im the first two weeks this course taught me how to use these technologies in concert to finally get everything necessary for this cornerstone of foundational knowledge. 

I find my fellow students to be extremely engaging in slack/discord chats to work through problems and help troubleshoot when there is an issue for the individual learner. However, the program support and learning facilitators are on top of their game and give comprehensive answers to student question, including why the challenges presented are constructed the way they are. Speaking of the learning facilitators, I responded to one of the weekly surveys expressing my discouragement that I didn’t feel as if a particular week gave me enough to work on as I finished the content extremely quickly. Assuming the surveys were being skimmed for data and not actually read, I thought that maybe the issue I brought up would be ignored. However, I received a direct message from one of the learning facilitators who offered me additional material and supplementary things to study. He even ended up offering me quite a bit of guidance/feedback on a project I put together to help reinforce the concepts I learned in the class. The only downside I’m experiencing is that the program is not self paced and is targeted to those not trying to study full time, ideally working a full-time job concurrently with the course. However, the 32-weeks of steady pacing in the course helps to reinforce the concepts without progressing before comprehension is achieved.  Read less