<p>I graduated with a degree in business, and am looking to go into engineering. This isn't a new development, as I was a premed undergrad and took many science classes in high school, but also happened to be interested in business. </p>
<p>While I know of many post bac programs for premed, I have only found one post bac for non-engineering majors, the LEAP program at BU. Anyone know of any others? Or routes I'd have to take to get into an engineering grad school?</p>
<p>First you have to determine what major you are actually interested in. If you’re interested in something like EE, ME, or CS then you have to take a lot of undergrad classes in engineering, math, and sciences. I would actually suggest that you pursue a second B.S. or try to enroll as a post-bacc student to take all the deficiency courses.</p>
<p>I don’t know of post-bac programs for engineering but you could always email schools, tell them about your situation, and see if they have a program for someone like yourself. It would be hard at the present time, I would think, to get direct admission into a graduate engineering program since your undergrad was in neither science or engineering. </p>
<p>You’ll most likely have to, as SuperGrad says, take a lot of undergrad engineering and science courses before you can be considered for graduate engineering programs. Could you possibly go back to your undergraduate institution and take engineering courses there?</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. I will be getting into touch with my undergrad engineering school to see what they can offer. I’m interested in something in the realms of mechanical and aerospace.</p>
<p>And will most likely be applying to the LEAP program. I just found it funny that their were so many post bac programs for pre med, and only one for engineering.</p>
<p>Well, since you were interested in premed, why not do biomedical engineering? I am a math and chemistry major and applied to a a dozen BME programs, all which do not require any engineering degree at all. That being said, you DO need the basic math and science courses covered. I’d go to your local state university to take the cheapest courses possible. You will need Calc I-III, differential equations, maybe some linear algebra, and the basic chemistry and physics intro courses.</p>
<p>Some national labs offer post baccalaureate programs. For example, the Los Alamos National Lab offers the [UGS</a> post baccalaureate](<a href=“Student Internships”>Student Internships) for a one-year appointment.</p>
<p>You’ll have to Google the national labs’ websites to get some info, but you should also search through their employment webpages because some post their programs there.</p>
<p>graven- Biomed is definitely an option I’m still weighing and very interested in. My degree required Calc, but I had already passed Calc AB/BC in high school with 5s, so I never took it at an actual college. This also happened with Bio/Chem AP ( I was premed first initially). Any chance of these transferring? I’ll be looking into criteria within the next couple days for various programs and trying to narrow it down from there.</p>
<p>MetalFace- That’s also something I’d be interested in. I actually grew up going on field trips to the Lawrence Livermore national lab. I’m assuming that most programs would require some math/science courses before being admitted?</p>
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<p>Yes, your AP will most likely count at all schools. Now you just need to take Calc III, a course on differential equations (probably linear algebra too), and the first two intro courses on mechanics and electricity and magnetism that engineers/science majors take. You really don’t have that much to makeup. You could even do Calc III and differential equations at the same time since you don’t really need calc III to understand ordinary diff eqs. The only difficulty I can see you having relative to your application is the fact the you have no research experience I am assuming and no publications. This will make it difficult for you to get into a PhD program. I’d suggest getting a master’s degree first.</p>