Another Bachelor's Degree After Finishing Undergrad

juillet
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 05:30:15 +0000

It is indeed possible to get a second bachelor’s degree after finishing the first one. Most colleges/universities that allow that will accept most or all of your gen-eds from your previous degree, and you typically only have to complete the major requirements and maybe a few other classes. Generally speaking it takes about 1.5 to 2 years to do this.

There are several caveats to this, though. First of all, many colleges don’t actually allow you to do a second bachelor’s. Some allow you to do it only in certain fields (nursing, for example).

But secondly, a second bachelor’s may not actually be all that useful. IN most fields, it’s far better to go get a master’s or a certificate in the other field. There are three major fields that I can think of where it might be useful to get a second bachelor’s: engineering (where the degree is really required for the jobs in the area, and getting into a master’s program without an undergrad background in the field is difficult to impossible); accounting (ditto), and nursing (ditto again, with the additional burden that getting licensed requires a degree n the field and you can’t work without the license).

There may be some more - mostly very narrow professional degree programs where you need licensure or highly specialized training to work, and in which master’s programs are either not widely available or difficult to get into without a major in the undergrad field (maybe like dental hygiene? or clinical/medical laboratory science?).