<p>I think two other posters have mentioned tech writing, and I’m going to add my voice to that. I know a bunch of tech writers, and it is a solid career.</p>
<p>You don’t have to have a CS degree to go onto a CS grad program, but you do need to have some amount of math and CS background. Some schools have post-bac programs in CS, which are designed to prep non-CS majors who have graduated for grad school in CS, to get them up to speed. I am in such a program right now, and if you PM me I am happy to talk about this.</p>
<p>Also, with a multimedia background, he might be interested in a grad program in human factors or HCI. They’ll take all sorts of backgrounds.</p>