About CS Bachelor and probable MS pathway

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Would a foreigner be able to jump the hoops and sign up for the free TEEX cybersecurity courses?
Saylor also offers ACE reccomended computer and business courses if money is tight.
And of course Google certs can knock tons of credits without spending a fortune. The IBM course had just gotten renewed, don't know how expensive it is.

If the OP speaks fluent Mandarin, they should spend 165 USD for a speaking ACTFL exam and nab those easy 12 credits where 6 credits are UL. Exam takes only around an hour.

Other options are the free computer programming MOOCs offered at Helsinki university that can be done in a few hours. Since the OP already has a foreign degree, they could accrue Helsinki university credits and have WES or Scholaro evaluate them together instead of separately to save more money.

I think you have to be Finnish or live in the EU to get credit for Finnish MOOCs now, don't you?

I haven't signed up for new Helsinki courses right now because I am doing other courses, so I can't 100% confirm. But I logged into my mooc account and it seems to still work. I'd give the health course a shot, it can be done in only 1 hour and see if the university lets you obtain etcs from it. Here's the mooc course list. The cat and dog moocs were real fun, both of those 2 courses are free to do but they charge 45 euros for the cat and 75 for the dog course to get the etcs.

https://www.mooc.fi/en/

To fully unlock the Helsinki university account, it is a bit of a hassle because it wants a passport with an embedded chip and there can't be any reflection from the passport when scanning it. Took me over 20 times for the app to accept it but tech support unlocked my account a few days later and let me register other courses.