CS or related Bachelors, which way to go?

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We've had users get the TESU BACS and get into OMSCS on almost entirely alt credit, including long time user davewill. The commonality seems to be years of relevant work experience, which you have. The BACS specifically requires you to get academic credit in OMSCS's prerequisites, where other degrees might not.

You need 30 regionally accredited credits for a TESU BACS. If you want to play it really safe (which is what I wanted), you should get some of these credits in the OMSCS prerequisite areas:

* Intro to programming
* Object oriented programming
* Data structures
* Algorithms (often combined with data structures)
* Linear algebra
* Probability
* Statistics

If you want to cover the UT Austin MSCSO's prerequisites, you can include these:

* Discrete Math
* Computer Architecture & Organization
* Operating systems

Oakton college offers all of these except OSes at around $550/class. I think at least some of them can be taken through ASU Universal Learner, which would be around $100/class cheaper.

For the WGU masters, they seem to only care if you have a bachelor's degree at all, so that's always an option.