There's pace and then there's content covered.  Let me tell you, MIT's EECS undergraduate curriculum is fast paced and <i>hard</i>, and I assume they cover more ground than the ArsDigita University did (even subtracting the general requirements that don't overlap with an EECS degree).<p>I think 10 months is just too little time to absorb enough (and some "downtime" in e.g. a humanities course per term can be a blessing).  MIT very strongly believes they need more than 4 years and established a 5 year MEng program that many if not most graduates take advantage of.<p>Perhaps a more narrow goal?  (And I'll note that MIT is teaching everyone in the department some EE with the CS (and visa versa); less so with the new curriculum, although today the vast majority of EECS undergraduates go for the combined EECS major instead of the ones that focus on EE or CS.)