19 year old International Student needs your help

[rachel83az]

One thing to keep in mind about TESU is that you have 30 credits of electives, if you choose to only pursue the Comp Sci degree. Want to get into Data Analytics? Transfer in more data analysis credits. Considering cloud computing? I think there are a few of those you could take.

Even if you go over the required number of credits, by taking the combined BSBA/BACS, the excess courses will still show up on your transcript to show that you studied them. This can be really, really useful for a country like Germany where "degree is everything" when it comes to tech jobs. (I've heard the joke about not even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, being able to get a tech job in Germany - because he never finished university.) Being able to truthfully say "oh, yeah, I took that at university" can sometimes be a lot more useful than "oh, yeah, I took a certificate in that after university" - at least in Germany. In the US, that doesn't matter as much.

Depending on what your exact goal is, there are several Analytics certificates on Coursera that are worth credit at TESU: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Coursera There is one from Google, 5 from IBM, and 2 from SAS. Some of the credits duplicate each other, and I don't know if I'd recommend the non-advanced SAS certificate, so you should definitely sit down and consider exactly what you plan on doing and which of those (if any) might be worth it, even if the credit offered might be sub-optimal.