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It's not so unusual, I was accepted into my Computer Science MSc (at Oxford) without a CS background - I did have a first class BA, but it was a joint honours i
by user24 16y ago
It's not so unusual, I was accepted into my Computer Science MSc (at Oxford) without a CS background - I did have a first class BA, but it was a joint honours in IT and Philosophy from a more-or-less unknown university (Lampeter).
Anyone who knows CS will know that IT is nothing like CS. I didn't have any A-Levels either. Masters degrees are a lot more forgiving, and I had some experience in software engineering.
(edit: this was year of 2009, and yes, I passed ;0) )
- bhickey 16y agoIt's rare, but not unheard of even outside of CS. A friend of mine is finishing up his degree at Brown University having never graduated from high school. Instead he joined up and did three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a pararescueman. The university has a program in place for students who experience an interruption (family, work, service, etc.) in their education. http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/advising/rue.php http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/advi...
- arethuza 16y agoI don't know if this applies to the course you did but there used to be a lot of "conversion course" MSc courses in CS related areas in the UK. These were very much targeted at people who did not have a background in CS.
- user24 16y agoyeah I think those courses do still exist, mine was a straight-up MSc though.