Degree Planning from scratch for late career software engineer

[Zardoz]

BUT -- lately he's gotten into management too, which he never thought he'd like until the last couple of years.  A business degree that actually teaches him new things and lets him put that knowledge to good use would also be useful and maybe actually better when looking towards the future.  So UMPI's BABA looked like a decent option or even their BLS with a Management or an MIS minor might really work OR perhaps even TAMUC's BAAS in Org Leadership (we are based in Texas and a local university would have more name recognition near us).

With an established career in software engineering, he probably doesn't really need to take a CS-heavy degree, unless he wants to go into research. I'm in a similar kind of position as he is- and to be honest, even for many research positions I'm a strong enough candidate as-is.

Given that he likes management, I would definitely encourage you to to look at a business / management / org leadership degree, since he'll probably learn more new & useful material that way and it will be a better career accelerator.

He can test out of languages with ACTFL and/or NYU SPS, depending on whether or not he wants/needs RA credit. Again, I'm in a very similar position there with a couple of European languages under my belt, and since I'll probably have more than enough RA credit, I'm really just rounding out my transcript with ACTFL for the shits and giggles.

If I were him, I'd probably gas up on Sophia and ACTFL and then go for the UMPI BLS w/MIS and MGT concentrations.