Boston University MET Master of Science in Software Development

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@posabsolute I'm not diminishing any field. It is what it is. Web and Mobile Software development is just not that complex compared to other fields and doesn't need a degree to be done. Have you even spoken to an analog engineer? or an ASIC engineer? I have and trust me web software development is like child's play in relation t those jobs.

@dfrecore, that may be true I don't live in the US.

but this nice little thing called the internet let's me collaborate with engineers in US, UK, Canada, China, Philippines and Japan and recently Germany and happen to chat about education and jobs all the time. I Skype with my friends living in these countries and I am actually an expert in my Area, thank you very much. I choose to connect with people and do research with my time, so I know a lot more than you think I do. When I spent about a year writing my book working for Apress Media LLC (oh that's a US company isn't it?), I talked to my technical reviewer constantly about engineering jobs and working there.

It's like saying because I never lived in the US I can't earn a degree in the US and can't make any comments about the US educational system and have no knowledge of it.

You are saying essentially that because I don't live in the US I don't know that a regionally accredited degree has more utility than a nationally accredited one?

When in fact due to talking to persons one this forum, I have more knowledge about the US higher educational system than most Americans and even some admissions staff at US colleges.

It's absurd to make such a statement. It's true I many not live in the US, but I know a lot of people who do, a lot of them my friends that have done everything from walking dogs and baby sitting to working at Microsoft and Baker Hughes.

There's Skype, Whatsapp and Facebook to discuss anything with anyone you know. I have even talked to some people hiring in the companies I wanted to work at, at a point in time to get an idea of what it would take to live and work in the US. We live in a globalized society.

Close to 100k (near 7% of the population) of persons from my country live and work in the US alone, so I'm not as isolated as you think I am. I also was considering moving to the US before my life plans changed and did a lot of research and calling around and even managed to land a remote position once aside from working for Apress.

And jobs like Software Development, Writing and Call Center positions are not like business and law. There is a reason people from India, China etc can find jobs at tech companies within the US, if you can develop software guess what, you can do it anywhere in the world, Java is Java anywhere you go, Calculus is Calculus, Algorithms are Algorithms.

As an expert in my field, who utilizes the internet and these things called planes to travel, I can give my opinion. An expert in a technical field is an expert anywhere he goes. An aerospace engineer from the US can go to Japan and tell them what is needed for a job in the field and can speak about the difference between a technician and an engineer in the the field.

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@MrBossmanJr you don't have to take my advice, listen to the others, just don't go applying for highly technical jobs (field applications engineer, dsp engineer, embedded engineer, robotics engineer) after you finish that software development program, because you will be disappointed and won't be prepared for them.

At the end of it all you must decide what you want to do. If you want to work in web or mobile development it doesn't matter, but again I am saying if you want a technical job, that program wont prepare you for it. Good luck in your journey!