Electrical Engineering degree following Liberal Arts degree
Q. I graduated from college with a liberal arts degree. I was wondering
how it might be possible for me to go back to school to get a degree
in electrical engineering. Does anyone had any experiences with this
kind of thing? Any help would be appreciated.
A. -It depends on your other educational background, and possibly to a
lesser extent, your aptitude and willingness to work hard.
-With most universities what you covered counts the most, chances are you
will have few courses that are "equivalent" to what you'd take in
engineering. I'd say it's a good bet that for all intents and purposes you
will be mostly starting from scratch, 4 years with most programs.
-Your gen-ed stuff would be ok. You would need calculus and calc-
based science (chem & physics) courses, unless you already took those.
You would probably need to take up to a minimum of three years of
electrical and some other engineering courses because of the
prerequisites that are almost always a part of those courses.
But on the other hand, you should get evaluated by a specific
engineering program that you would have access to, and see what they
would say when looking over your previous education.