Master's of engineering without bachelor's of engineering?!

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I think an engineering Master’s with a non-engineering bachelor’s is a bad idea personally. A Master’s degree (atleast an MSE) is simply a specialization degree. You take one (maybe two) areas of your undergraduate education and expand on them. You’re not expanding on your entire undergraduate education (like many people often, and incorrectly, assume). </p>

<p>That being said, a Master’s without a bachelor’s in engineering will undoubtedly require a large number of pre-requisite courses in order to qualify for the Master’s classes. The problem is that the breadth of those pre-requisite courses will not be great as it would have been had you completed a Bachelor’s degree first (you’re essentially just taking the bare minimum in order to qualify for particular classes for your Master’s). So, you can see that your engineering foundation will be more fragmented than your typical BSE -> MSE individual’s would be.

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<p>Eh?</p>

<p>It really depends on what one plans to do with the MSE/M.Eng. Many M.S./M.Eng in Industrial/Systems Engineering degrees are basically applied math degrees, so a B.A./B.S. in Math will not need many prereqs. </p>

<p>In some engineering areas (especially software engineering), to get hired for senior technical positions, the requirements may be given like the following:</p>

<p>B.S. + 15 years exp OR M.S. + 8 years exp</p>

<p>In that case, it is better to get a M.S./M.Eng to cut down the years of experience needed. On top of that, federal contracting will allow higher billing rates to those with a M.S./M.Eng and really do not care that much about the difference of the B.S./M.S. majors.</p>

<p>My point? There are avenues and reasons for multiple scenarios when it comes to specific majors and undergraduate/graduate studies.</p>

<p>Me?..my B.S. is in Computational Mathematics but my M.S. is in Engineering (no specialization) but my specialization resembles more of a systems engineeing degree.</p>

<p>I didn’t care, I just wanted a technical M.S. so I could get the higher billing rates.</p>