Applying for a college while having previous bachelor degree

Applying to College
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<p>Hi , I'm 23 years old . I already have a bachelor degree but I want to study Computer science . I realized that many colleges in the USA require that freshman applicants don't hold previuos bachelor degrees . I want to know of good schools in Europe and USA that accept students with previous bachelor degrees . I'm not living in Europe or US so I'm not familiar with scholarships and Grants . I want to know if there's a way to cover all tuition fees and living expenses as I heard that most scholarships don't cover all expenses and few are available for international students .
Another question , is it possible to apply for graduate school in CS without having taken any undergraduate courses pertaining to CS ?</p>

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<li>Everyone’s definition of ‘good’ is different.</li>
<li>This forum mainly deals with US colleges.</li>
<li>You need to go to the college websites to see if they accept second degree students.</li>
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<p>There is only a handful of schools that offer full need based FA or merit aid to Intl. students for their first UG degree, I highly doubt there are any that do so for a second degree.</p>

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<p>You can apply anywhere, but it’s highly unlikely that any grad school would accept someone with no coursework or experience in the field, particularly one as technical as CS.</p>

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<p>I actually do think it’s possible to find a school that will take someone on in a Master’s program in CS without any underlying experience, but it’s probably going to be a less selective public school AND it’s going to be conditional on doing some remedial UG work before starting grad studies. It’s either that, or find a school that will accept all your previous gen ed work towards a BS, that way you only need to take the comp sci and possibly the math courses. I’m thinking two years for either path.</p>

<p>A quick Google search turned up this - it addresses this very issue. It’s Northern Illinois University.
<a href=“http://www.cs.niu.edu/graduate/nonCSGrad.shtml”>http://www.cs.niu.edu/graduate/nonCSGrad.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>A Master’s starting from zero would be 13 courses, which you should be able to comfortably do in three semesters and maybe a summer.</p>