Degree Planning from scratch for late career software engineer

[davewill]

P.S. Another thought. While his job may want his bachelor's degree to be U.S. based, graduate programs will not mind that he has a foreign degree. He could consider doing a master's to satisfy this need for a U.S. degree rather than getting a "redundant" bachelor's degree. The downside is that it won't be as cheap as the bachelor's (although the Georgia Tech OMSCS, at $7K or so, is pretty cheap), nor will he be able to go through it quickly. On the plus side, he will actually be learning new things, and enhancing his resume in a more meaningful way.

I wish that would be possible, but his coursework over there was not enough for a degree either.  It was a software development training program that he took, then starting working, then went into the military, then was asked to come back and teach the course to others coming out of high school and did so for two years.  It was not a degree conferring program but could have been transferred into one.  He had no interest in sitting in school for years when he could be out in the world doing.  

I did, however, look at a bridge type program at one of those that is a Bachelors to Masters program.  That could be interesting, I will have to find it again.

Yeah, if he doesn't actually have a bachelor's degree, then you're probably back to getting one by the methods we advocate here. Most of the bachelor's to master's programs end up being pricy and not very flexible. However, I do encourage you to have those foreign credits evaluated. They will likely give him a leg up.