Changing career to software development?

[davewill]

I should’ve asked you this in my last comment. What did you mean by only a “handful” of courses. I was looking at the wiki degree plan for the BACS from TESU, so would I essentially just have to follow that step by step? I read on another thread I found that it’s only 24 credits for a second bachelors at TESU. I guess what I’m asking is, how does my first bachelors affect the degree plan?

First, your previous degree satisfies all of the General Education requirements. Then your transcripts are evaluated course by course to satisfy any other degree requirements. You would certainly cover all of the free electives section. Any courses you took that would fit into the AOS would also get slotted in. You then have the courses left in the AOS plus the capstone left to do. If with all that you still don't have 24 credits earned after your last degree was conferred, then you have to do extra courses to get to 24.

I'm thinking you probably have at least 21 new credits in your master's work, so adding on the capstone gets you to 24 new credits. I would also think that all of your master's credits would apply to the BACS AOS. Therefore, we said that you probably only have a handful of courses. Unless you list all your courses, we're just guessing, of course.

[bjcheung77]

@OP, you need a minimum of 24 new credits at TESU for a second degree, that number is for the requirements for the major. For example, you have a degree in History/Political science, you're going for a second degree in Psychology. You will need to take the course to fit the remaining requirements for the major, the AOS electives 'may' be fine with other Social Science electives you already have, thus, you technically only need the 24 NEW credits as long as all the requirements are filled.

If the major is in a completely different field (such as Computer Science), you will need to take courses that are required for the entire major, including the AOS electives. In your specific case, you need a minimum of 36 credits to get the degree... Unless you already have a few of these from your previous undergrad, you will need these, see below: Note: It's up to you to decide if a WGU CBE program is better for you or not. People mention TESU capstone alone is longer than 3/4th the entire degree at WGU.

A. Required Courses (18 Credits)
COS-1110 Introduction to Programming 3
COS-2410 Data Structures 3
MAT-2310 Calculus I 4
MAT-2700 Discrete Mathematics 3
COS-2400 Operating Systems 3
COS-3300 Computer Architecture 3
B. Computer Science Electives (18 Credits)

[natshar]

Yeah WGU is technically more courses but it COULD be less time and work.

[Jwheels27]

@OP, you need a minimum of 24 new credits at TESU for a second degree, that number is for the requirements for the major.  For example, you have a degree in History/Political science, you're going for a second degree in Psychology.  You will need to take the course to fit the remaining requirements for the major, the AOS electives 'may' be fine with other Social Science electives you already have, thus, you technically only need the 24 NEW credits as long as all the requirements are filled.

If the major is in a completely different field (such as Computer Science), you will need to take courses that are required for the entire major, including the AOS electives.  In your specific case, you need a minimum of 36 credits to get the degree... Unless you already have a few of these from your previous undergrad, you will need these, see below:  Note: It's up to you to decide if a WGU CBE program is better for you or not.  People mention TESU capstone alone is longer than 3/4th the entire degree at WGU.

A. Required Courses (18 Credits)
COS-1110 Introduction to Programming 3
COS-2410 Data Structures 3
MAT-2310 Calculus I 4
MAT-2700 Discrete Mathematics 3
COS-2400 Operating Systems 3
COS-3300 Computer Architecture 3
B. Computer Science Electives (18 Credits)

Thank you and Davewill for succinctly explaining that to me! Feels like back in the day TESU degree plans were as simple as UMPI or WGU’s, but now it feels like a maze trying to figure out what you need to transfer in to finish your degree. I forgot about the capstone, it’s 12 weeks correct? Yeah that’s half a semester at WGU, something else to chew on.

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Yeah WGU is technically more courses but it COULD be less time and work.

You mean as far as harder courses to take and time spent on the capstone?