If you view CS education as merely credentials to obtain a job, and if you view the job as stringing together NPM modules and libraries to bang out simple CRUDs and websites, then in fact the CS MS degree is entirely in the piece of paper (the education itself has no value).
As is the case with the BS, you can learn all of the material from books and papers on your own without having to shell out thousands of dollars to a college.
The real money quote, though, really applies to both BS and MS degrees:
> I believe that the purpose has, in some ways, shifted to be a cash cow for the university in question.
Universities as a whole shifted their business model to focus more on revenue. This is a multi-decade trend that many people have discussed, and are currently debating in the context of the massive student loan bubble.
As is the case with the BS, you can learn all of the material from books and papers on your own without having to shell out thousands of dollars to a college.
The real money quote, though, really applies to both BS and MS degrees:
> I believe that the purpose has, in some ways, shifted to be a cash cow for the university in question.
Universities as a whole shifted their business model to focus more on revenue. This is a multi-decade trend that many people have discussed, and are currently debating in the context of the massive student loan bubble.