Degree Planning- MS degree

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Georgia Tech's OMSCS will most likely take you if you took:

• Intro to programming
  
• Object oriented programming
  
• Data structures & algorithms
  

and you got good grades, or if you have considerable work experience. They also recommend taking:

• Computer Architecture
  
• Discrete Math
  
• At least calc 1
  
• Linear algebra
  
• Stats/Probability (sometimes offered as two separate courses)
  

You might still be able to get in with alt credit in these areas, other users have, but they tend to have experience.

The catch with OMSCS is that while you can take 2 courses at a time with a full time job, the consensus is that you really shouldn't unless you hate yourself and love suffering. This would extend your timeline to just over 3 years. The other catch is that you have to get Bs in at least two fundamental courses in the first year to stay in the program.

Your GPA might be an issue. They want a GPA over 3.0, as will most masters programs. You might be interested in taking supplementary courses at Oakton College in order to pump your GPA up and get more of the subjects above covered, especially if you didn't take many graded classes for the BSBA. If you get your assignments in on time and put a decent amount of effort in, you'll probably get good grades.

There's also the UT Austin MSCSO and MSAI, which are both just over $10k, but taking multiple classes at once is more feasible. The catch there is that their admissions are way more competitive. OMSCS has something like an 85% admission rate, whereas MSCSO is more like 40%. Might still be worth an application. 

If you want to go down the cybersecurity path specifically, you'll have more options. Notably WGU offers a cybersecurity MS, and admissions are not at all competitive there. I can't really speak to that path as much but it's a "hot" field which means more online offerings out there.