Boston University MET Master of Science in Software Development

[dfrecore]

@dfrecore, that may be true I don't live in the US.

but this nice little thing called the internet let's me collaborate with engineers in US, UK, Canada, China, Philippines and Japan and recently Germany and happen to chat about education and jobs all the time. I Skype with my friends living in these countries and I am actually an expert in my Area, thank you very much. I choose to connect with people and do research with my time, so I know a lot more than you think I do. When I spent about a year writing my book working for Apress Media LLC (oh that's a US company isn't it?), I talked to my technical reviewer constantly about engineering jobs and working there.

It's like saying because I never lived in the US I can't earn a degree in the US and can't make any comments about the US educational system and have no knowledge of it.

You are saying essentially that because I don't live in the US I don't know that a regionally accredited degree has more utility than a nationally accredited one?

When in fact due to talking to persons one this forum, I have more knowledge about the US higher educational system than most Americans and even some admissions staff at US colleges.

It's absurd to make such a statement. It's true I many not live in the US, but I know a lot of people who do, a lot of them my friends that have done everything from walking dogs and baby sitting to working at Microsoft and Baker Hughes.

There's Skype, Whatsapp and Facebook to discuss anything with anyone you know. I have even talked to some people hiring in the companies I wanted to work at, at a point in time to get an idea of what it would take to live and work in the US. We live in a globalized society.

Close to 100k (near 7% of the population) of persons from my country live and work in the US alone, so I'm not as isolated as you think I am. I also was considering moving to the US before my life plans changed and did a lot of research and calling around and even managed to land a remote position once aside from working for Apress.

And jobs like Software Development, Writing and Call Center positions are not like business and law. There is a reason people from India, China etc can find jobs at tech companies within the US, if you can develop software guess what, you can do it anywhere in the world, Java is Java anywhere you go, Calculus is Calculus, Algorithms are Algorithms.

As an expert in my field, who utilizes the internet and these things called planes to travel, I can give my opinion. An expert in a technical field is an expert anywhere he goes. An aerospace engineer from the US can go to Japan and tell them what is needed for a job in the field and can speak about the difference between a technician and an engineer in the the field.

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First, I never said you couldn't get a degree here, so you're arguing a point that wasn't made.

Second, I personally know more about getting degrees than most people, which does not qualify me to give advice on every degree, and every job, and every industry.  No matter what you know, you can't know everything.

Third, job markets in the US tend to be regional.  Unless you live in a particular city, you don't know the job market there.  I don't know the job market in Charlotte or NYC or Austin or Boise.  I know it in San Diego, because I live here.  Requirements for things, what most people have, what companies are looking for, is very regional here in the US.  It can differ by industry, region, even city.  Pay is definitely regional.

So someone who does not live and work here, who is only getting a snapshot of things from talking to people in different areas, you can't really get a good picture of the whole.  Yes, you can have a good idea of what's going on in a particular industry, but even then, you may not know everything about it, or what's going on in ever region of a very large country.

But go ahead and proclaim your expertise, and give people whatever advice you want - and I'll continue to give mine, which may differ from yours, and you probably won't like it, and I don't care.