Please help me decide on an academic path

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Hello everyone. I'm Pranav from India. I'm 24, started working as a junior Developer shortly. I do not have a undergraduate degree and I'm pretty confused. Tried to do the TESU and Sophia+Study.com route but since I wasn't earning back then (not earning enough now to fund a degree either) dad said he couldn't afford it. Finally after lot of research, I joined BCA at uni mysore as they'd said they would provide an accelerated mode if I paid the fee upfront but I'm sure it's illegal by Indian University commission (UGC) and they said the exams are self paced but haven't allowed me to exams for the past 2 months. Other online Indian universities seem to just want your money upfront and then the support goes downhill. I've heard of UoPeople but it doesn't have RA accreditation yet. I'd also enrolled in ENEB MBA Masters in big data just to see how the courses were and not as a serious academic path but now I'm really considering doing ENEB since I've heard their MBA was recognised as an RA bachelor's degree by one of the NACES accreditors and I read on degree-inf that the Big data Masters was accepted as equivalent Masters in Belgium by Belgium Naric, so it would help me in doing a PHD sometime later if I wanted to go into academia. Any reply would be helpful. Thanks

I am NOT sure this will work.. but it may.

Your budget is very tight, but you have started the ENEB Big Data, finish it up.

Then see if you can get accepted into this free masters of science in communications https://www2.daad.de/deutschland/studien...gistration

While the ENEB doesn't "exactly" meet the prerequisites, I "think" you could make an argument for admission given work history/skills. Especially if you found some cheap MOOCS classes in the stuff they want to see a basic understanding of 

Basic knowledge in the following subjects is required:

• information theory and communications engineering
  
  
• digital signal processing
  
  
• signal and system theory
  
  
• telecommunications and networks
  
  
• linear algebra
  
  
• random processes, stochastics
  

Basic programming skills (Matlab/Octave or Python):

• variables, basic operators, conditional statements, loops, arrays, functions, etc.
  
  
  
  Taking a  quick look, EdX.org has courses that aren't terribly expensive and also Coursea like this for Fundamentals of network Comms https://www.mooc-list.com/course/fundame...n-coursera for 32 Euro a month
  

At the end of the day, it's really just computer type stuff but geared towards communications systems, and that is an in demand field.

It may not be EXACTLY what you are looking for, but if you could get admitted based on the ENEB MBA Big Data and some additional courses from MOOCS, you would never beat the price, and can be done online from home.

Good luck, and I bet you can do it!