<p>Thank you for all of your responses. I have check several schools admission and most of them don’t admit student with BA in Finance into their MS in EE. However, there are some school that have preparatory program for student that are in non-engeering field like Cleveland State University, Ohio. The thing is I don’t know how hard is the EE program for business major student. I just want to get into engineering and get a stable career. Finance career is like here today, gone tomorrow. I can’t afford money and time for second bachelor. That’s why I hope I could get a Master degree in Engineering and start paying back my student loans. Do you think Civil Engineering is a good alternative for Electrical Engineering? I like to work in office environment. I am just afraid that most of Civil Engineering will work in the construction area?</p>
<p>Civil engineering is a great field, but I think you will find that they also have difficulties making a living as well. I feel that this is soon to change, but overall - it won’t give you better job prospects. I would recommend that only people with a passion to endure the down time of civil engineering to pursue the field, but certainly do not do it just for money. It will be on top soon enough - but it is currently taking a little hit.</p>
<p>It also sounds like you want to pursue a masters program that offers pay. That is even more difficult to do in someone in your situation since you are usually supposed to teach courses in engineering, which is difficult and limited because you haven’t taken as many engineering courses yet.</p>
<p>This thread is relevant to my interests. I was interested in Engineering, and my undergrad degree is in Economics. I had e-mailed some local schools about getting a second bachelors degree. One professor said it would at least take about 2.5 years to complete. I’d have to take all the science classes, but just think you’ve already knocked out all the english, psychology, etc. courses.</p>
<p>Although engineering is more interesting to me, I may end up going with Accounting. I can’t imagine starting my career at 27, possibly 28 years old. If you’re looking for a stable career, why not look into that? Besides the fact that acccounting is pretty boring of course…</p>
<p>Certainly, a 28 year old person is ancient.</p>
<p>haha, no not at all. I guess there’s a mixture of things… I’m working now and not making good money and not really enjoying work, but it’s nice to bring home a paycheck every other week and save up. I’m also currently paying off around 30k debt from undergrad that I’d hate to add on to right now. Engineering seems a lot more interesting than what I’m doing though</p>
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<p>I guess I’m screwed–I won’t graduate until I’m 30. :(</p>
<p>I will probably graduate at 32 and I am actually planning on doing 5 years as undergrad; if I end up attending graduate school, I’d be starting my career at around the age of 38. Even at 40, I’d still have 30 to 40 years of actively productive life.</p>
<p>Hi, first post on CC. </p>
<p>I graduated with a BA in History in 2.5 years last December. I did this with the goal of being a police officer, not realizing in 2006 how intense the competition for jobs would be in 2010. </p>
<p>So now I have applied to Arizona State to get a B.S. in Civil Engineering. I believe I will take 3 or 3 and a half years to complete the degree. I will be 24 when I finish. I never really thought about applying to a Master’s program because I need to start at the very basics. They also have a program that allows you to get a Master’s in an additional year if I feel the need to do that when I’m done. I just applied as a transfer student and no one really cared that I already had a different undergraduate degree. They admitted me in about 3 days. They said I was a shoe-in because I had a high “transfer” GPA. </p>
<p>The reason I’m doing Civil Engineering is that I think that long term, the job prospects will be pretty decent and I’m very interested in infrastructure.</p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t know how to start a new thread so I am going to reply here instead. The LATE ENTRY ACCELERATED PROGRAM (LEAP) seems really interesting, but are there any other programs that are similar to LEAP? I hold a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley, but during my last year at Cal, I began to gain interest in robotic engineering (I know, drastic change) mostly from my peers and the work I have seen from my fellow engineering students. I even participated in their annual National Concrete Canoe competition as a designer for the canoe (it’s more structural than robotic, but hey at least it’s a start). As of now, I am concerned that i might not have enough experience to apply, since the courses/ work experience I have had from Cal are all non-engineering related. I just graduated so I plan on taking the GRE this year and on the side I want to gain more hands on experience in the field of engineering. However most internships/ fellowships. etc I have found all required some core knowledge of the matter (aka eng courses taken in an accredited college, something that I am dying to get but don’t have). I guess my question here is, are there any opportunities out there for a person with only a BA in design to get an internship in the field of engineering (robotics, mechanical, or computer). I am dying to get anything. Also, what is the acceptance rate for BU LEAP (GRE scores, GPA, work experience, etc)?</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>How doable the proposed path is depends on how heavy in math the undergraduate degree was. To switch over to engineering, a finance or economics major who did heavily quantitative course work (including junior and senior level math courses) is likely to be much better able to “catch up” on the undergraduate engineering courses than one who just squeaked by freshman calculus for business majors.</p>
<p>That is, of course, based on being able to take the “catch up” courses somewhere that will admit the student for a second bachelor’s degree or non-degree student (though a community college may do for the first few physics courses and introductory electronics and computer science courses).</p>