Help - Engineering Degree for European Student

[Bat1234]

Location: Portugal
Age: 20
What kind of degree do you want?: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or in Engineering.
Current Regional Accredited Credits: I'm currently a student in a portuguese university, not sure if that counts.
Any certifications or military experience? No.
Budget: Ideally 20k or below.
Commitments: I'm currently doing a bachelor's in economics (I'll finish in 2024).
Dedicated Study Time: I can dedicate around 3-4 hours a day.
Timeline: I would like to finish as soon as possible, but I don't have any rigid deadline.
Tuition Assistance/Reimbursement: I don't have this but I can apply for loans if needed.

Hello everyone, I am looking for some advice for my future degree path. I'm looking for a flexible online degree with good quality learning resources in order to learn as much as possible about computer science and engineering. I was thinking of going into omscs from georgia tech after finishing this bachelor.

After looking through the forum for a while, I have found good things about TESU. However, in order to keep my budget lower I would need to get most credits from outside, which I'm scared will lead to a bad learning experience. 

Additionally, I've also looked at university of london (https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelo...nce-london), but the lack of mathematics and the bad reviews are also scaring me off.

Is there a good online university, ideally from europe, where I can get a good quality education without breaking the bank?

Thank you guys in advance for all the help!

[Tomas]

Yes your ECTS are equal to "regionally accredited credits" if your Uni is state approved in Portugal.
I didn't investigate UoL much but at least some math they have (Computational mathematics, Discrete mathematics).
You can get to OMSCS even with bachelors in economics. Check their website. You will probably have to complete some subjects, maths, algoriths, don't remember exactly. That can be done eg. even at your local uni.
Or, you can do masters in CS through Coursera, UC Boulder, you don't need CS bachelors for that.
There is a Spanish open uni, http://www.uoc.edu/ that used to have English degree, not CS but Software development. IU at iu.org is private German school where you can get CS degree, also a UK degree from their partner school can be bought. Neither is accelerated. Metropolia has a very cheap IT degree for EU citizens, it is at your own pace and can be completed fairly fast, but it is IT not CS.
Sufficient education, yes, but good quality education, not quite sure...depends on what your requirement is. In good brick and mortar schools you will get a plenty of practice in CS studies, in online schools that would be scarce, writing essays about concepts or making it through quizzes is not much useful. That's one of the reasons why I think skipping CS bachelors and going for masters is fine in case like this.

[bjcheung77]

@Bat1234, Welcome to the board, that's a great compact and concise introduction with the addendum and template information! What I suggest you to do is continue with your current studies until you're done, while work on that, you can do the Metropolia BSIT, 3/4th of it can be had for just 579 Euro and the remainder (final year) is inexpensive for EU nationals. This way, you'll have two degrees at the Bachelors level and you can 'ladder & pivot' towards the Masters afterwards. You may want to add to that the trifecta of certs, degree, experience to a better mix/match of your liking, say adding some inexpensive Cousera/Edx/Google certs, etc.

[Ghostwill]

My Experience from Coursera is good, I did a Programming Course. Btw you can also check out this https://europe.umgc.edu/online-degrees/b...er-science his is an online program that covers topics such as programming languages, software development, algorithms, database systems, and data structures. It costs $250 per. credit hour.

[natshar]

Are you planning on finishing your Portuguese degree?

[rachel83az]

@Bat1234, Welcome to the board, that's a great compact and concise introduction with the addendum and template information! What I suggest you to do is continue with your current studies until you're done, while work on that, you can do the Metropolia BSIT, 3/4th of it can be had for just 579 Euro and the remainder (final year) is inexpensive for EU nationals. This way, you'll have two degrees at the Bachelors level and you can 'ladder & pivot' towards the Masters afterwards. You may want to add to that the trifecta of certs, degree, experience to a better mix/match of your liking, say adding some inexpensive Cousera/Edx/Google certs, etc.

The final year is 0€ for EU/EEA citizens. And if you read the Metropolia page, IIRC, it's actually a BS Engineering in Information Technology. So that may sound better.

[Bat1234]

Thank you for all the help everyone!!! Sorry for the late response (I'm currently in the exam season and haven't had the time to look at my phone).  After much deliberation, I'm thinking of doing as many online credits as I can, while finishing my current degree and than transfer to a brick and mortar school here in Portugal (Instituto superior técnico).  As a follow up do you guys know any university where I can get math and physics credits online in addition to metropolia?  From what I've seen degrees there need a lot of math and physics(calculus 1 to 3, linear algebra, discrete math, etc), and metropolia is a bit lacking in that aspect... I've also looked at some swedish options (like the university of Helsinki), but they suffers from the same problem. Anyways thank you guys again for all the support!!!