[olug] advice on UNO computer science degree

[David DeWester]

Oops, my bad!  I just typed in uno.edu and went from there.  You know what
they say when you assume...

So, using my vast computer skills, I correctly located the UNO in Omaha!
I knew that MS degree would come in handy some day.  :)

Try this page:
http://csalpha.ist.unomaha.edu/~grad/admission.htm

It looks like you're in even better shape with them.  They only require 7
prerequisite courses and you might get credit for some of those.

The system works the same at about any school, and any major.  If you have
an unrelated bachelors degree, you get admitted to the MS program on a
probationary basis.  You are given a list of deficiency courses you have
to take before you are admitted in full standing; there may or may not be
restrictions such as needing to finish deficiency courses in the first
year or before taking other courses.  After you're done with those courses
you have the same status as any other student and you can finish your MS.

That link above goes just to their computer science degree.  They have
related degrees.  The home page for the entire IT college is at:
http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/

I still vote for getting the MS.

David



On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Eric Pierce wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the info, but the links you gave are for the wrong UNO.  Those links goto Univ. of New Orleans. I'm after Univ. of Nebr. at Omaha.
> Thanks all the same,
> Eric
>   David DeWester <dewester at inebraska.com> wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Eric Pierce wrote:
> 
> > I think that's what I want to do, but I'm a little
> > confused about how it all falls together.
> > [snip]
> > Do I just enroll for a master's degree and take
> > whatever undergrad classes I need to get caught up
> > (quite a bit I'd imagine)?
> 
> That's the way it worked for me. I have my BS in math but I got into the
> CS masters program at UNL without any problems.
> 
> They gave me a list of "deficiency" courses I had to take. There were
> only four of them. (Although I had taken a lot of CS courses here and
> there so I got some credit for those.)
> 
> Go read http://www.cs.uno.edu/Academic/MS/index.html
> 
> Note their FAQ just for non-CS degree people at:
> http://www.cs.uno.edu/Academic/MS/noncs.html
> 
> You're looking at no more than 23 hours of make-up courses. That's not
> all that horrible. Note that taking Software Development exempts you from
> quite a few of those 23 hours. If you take that class, you'll only have
> to take 5 deficiency courses:
> 
> MATH 2721 Discrete Mathematics (3 credit hours) 
> CSCI 2450 Assembly Languages (3 credit hours) 
> CSCI 3301 Computer Organization (3 credit hours) 
> CSCI 3401 System Programming (3 credit hours) 
> CSCI 6001 Software Development (6 credit hours)
> 
> Keep in mind that in grad school you basically only take courses directly
> related to your degree. If you enroll in the BS program you'll, well,
> have to take a lot more than 5 "BS" courses. Pardon my French.
> 
> Dave Burchell was right. Go for the masters degree.
> 
> 
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