Computer Science and Engineering Curriculum Through Open Courses?

I have been interested in going back to school for some time now, but have been stuck weighing the benefits against additional student debt. I was curious to determine how much of the curriculum could be accomplished through open courses and self-directed learning.

I took the EE/CS curriculum, and cross referenced MIT’s OpenCourseWare to identify those courses with audio lectures available online.

The following was taken from MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Curriculum (90 units in total). In general it appears as though some lower level classes are available — but not nearly enough. Any links in the Video/Audio/Materials column indicate that course’s are available online and on-demand in some capacity.

Category	ID	Subject	Video/Audio Available?	Book
Introductory
	6.01	Introduction to EECS I	2011 course from MIT	N/A
	6.02	Introduction to EECS II	2012 MIT course
Mathematics (pick two)
	18.03	Differential Equations OR the following	2010 course from MIT	N/A
	18.06	Linear Algebra; AND	2011 course from MIT
	6.042J	Mathematics for Computer Science	2010 course from MIT	N/A
Foundations
	6.004	Computation Structures		N/A
6.005	N/A	Elements of Software Construction		N/A
	6.006	Introduction to Algorithms	2011 course from MIT
Department Lab (pick one)
	6.141	Robotics: Science and Systems I
	6.170	Software Studio		N/A
	6.172	Performance Engineering of Software Systems	2010 course from MIT	N/A
	6.173	Computer Language Engineering
	6.035	Computer Language Engineering	Selected 2005 lectures from MIT	N/A
	6.813
	6.828
Headers (pick 3)
	6.033	Computer System Engineering	2009 course from MIT
	6.034	Artificial Intelligence; Or the following	2010 course from MIT	N/A
	6.036	Introduction to Machine Learning		N/A
	6.046	Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Advanced Undergraduate Studies (pick two)
	6.022J	Quantitative Systems Physiology		N/A
	6.023J	Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems		N/A
	6.025	Medical Device Design		N/A
	6.035	Computer Language Engineering	2005 course from MIT – selected lectures only	N/A
	6.045J	Automata, Computability and Complexity		N/A
	6.047	Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution		N/A
	6.049	Evolutionary Biology		N/A
	6.061	Introduction to Electric Power		N/A
	6.111	Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory		N/A
	6.115	Microcomputer Project Laboratory		N/A
	6.131	Power Electronics Laboratory
	6.141J	Robotics: Science and Systems I
	6.170	Software Studio		N/A
	6.172	Performance Engineering of Software Systems	2010 course from MIT	N/A
	6.207	Networks		N/A
	6.301	Solid-State Circuits
	6.302	Feedback Systems		N/A
	6.502J	Introduction to Molecular Simulations
	6.503	Foundations of Algorithms and Computational Techniques in Systems Biology		N/A
	6.701	Introduction to Nanoelectronics		N/A
	6.717	Design and Fabrication of Microelectromechanical Systems		N/A
	6.801	Machine Vision		N/A
	6.802	Computational Systems Biology		N/A
	6.803	The Human Intelligence Enterprise		N/A
	6.804J	Computational Cognitive Science		N/A
	6.805	Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier		N/A
	6.813	User Interface Design and Implementation		N/A
	6.814	Database Systems		N/A
	6.815	Digital and Computational Photography		N/A
	6.835	Intelligent Multimodal User Interfaces		N/A
	6.837	Computer Graphics		N/A
	6.857	Network and Computer Security

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