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I'd really like to see them do this for an undergrad. I never finished mine, which hasn't really held me back in my career except for wanting to pursue a masters. I've looked around, and I've never really found what I consider to be a respectable online undergrad for less than about 50k worth of tuition.

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https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-softwar...

University of Oxford Master’s in Software Engineering

https://mba.london.ac.uk/overview/programme-structure/

University of London (Queen Mary’s) MBA

https://london.ac.uk/courses/finance-major-banking#entry-req...

SOAS University of London Master’s in Finance

All of these Master’s will admit students with enough relevant work experience without a Bachelor’s degree. If your work experience is tangential to what you want to study they might tell you to go do a MOOC and apply again with proof you did well in it.

GA Tech does admit some students to the Masters programs who don't have bachelor degrees. The Micro Masters programs at edX may be a way in to the MSCS programs without the undergrad step. One benefit of the MM programs is that they're basically open access. You do what is essentially 1/4 of the degree online first, and if you do well you may be admitted to either the residential Masters program or the online program. Disclosure: I work at edX.

https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/prospective-students/faq

Unless I misread the below they prefer a Math, CS or Engineering Bachelor’s and a Bachelor’s of some kind is an absolute requirement.

> Preferred qualifications for admitted OMS CS students are an undergraduate degree in computer science or related field (typically mathematics, computer engineering or electrical engineering) from an accredited institution with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Applicants who do not meet these criteria will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis; significant professional or other work experience with supporting recommendations may qualify as an adequate substitute for the appropriate academic credentials, however work experience will not take the place of an undergraduate degree

For Gatech, BS is required for sure, because that is the basic required of on campus program.

Not an absolute truth. I know this for a fact.

^ yea I'm also not seeing anywhere that this is true. I'd love to hear that it is.

I know people who have been admitted to MS programs without an undergraduate degree. Both had significant progress towards their BS/BA (one had an AA) and seriously good private sector work done (one at Microsoft, another at a startup) with either published papers or extensive open source contributions.

A lot of schools including GT will accept 3 years' worth of credits from a junior or community college. You can then finish 1 year's worth of additional credits and get the degree from the final institution.

A working person might be able to space out classes so that they can continue their full-time job, but I'm not sure.

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