<p>I already have a BA and my degree seems useless. Cannot get any job interviews whatso ever. I have IT(information technology) experience should I go back to school for an AAS or MS in computer science? What should I do?</p>
<p>What is your existing BA in? Perhaps that will help explain why you’re debating between an associates and masters but not a bachelors?</p>
<p>Associate and Master’s degrees are both shorter than a second Bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>I get that part, and I’ve never been to grad school, but wouldn’t going from a totally different subject (say, a BA in history) to qualifying for graduate CS admissions require the equivalent to starting from scratch?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be easier to use your existing general ed credits and try to go into a BS in CS as an upper division transfer? Maybe there’s some rule against that and I don’t know what I’m talking about…</p>
<p>If he doesn’t have the math classes required for CS, and the computer courses, I’d think it’d almost be like starting from scratch</p>
<p>It’s not quite starting from scratch because you wouldn’t have to retake general ed courses again. In order to get accepted into a Master’s program for CS, you need to demonstrate that you have a solid understanding of the undergraduate CS curriculum, which means you’ll have to find some way to take undergrad CS courses. At my school, enrollment for most upper division, undergrad engineering courses are restricted to “majors only” so it’s not possible for outside students (who aren’t part of a degree program) to take those courses. However, I know that there are schools that don’t have those kinds of restrictions.</p>
<p>Also, a lot of CS graduate programs require you to take the CS GRE subject test if you don’t have an undergraduate degree in CS.</p>
<p>I’ve never really heard of a school that offers an associates degree in computer science. I’m guessing that the only schools that might offer them are for-profit school.</p>
<p>A regional or community college might offer an associates.</p>