Going from Bachelor of art to Masters of engineering (Computer science)

[Kindergarten]

Hi,

I was wondeirng what people would think about someone doing an undergraduate art degree (majoring economics and politics) then doing all the prerequisit subjects for engineering and then a masters in engineering?

Would this be too hard of a change or would it be possible? I've always been really interested in IT and Politics and would really like to study both.

[Aaron]

Can do - as long as you meet the requirements for entry into the Masters (very important!).

For example, the Master of Engineering (Software) requires completion of both maths and computer science units @ first year.. you'll have to check whether you can actually do this throughout a BA.

http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/study/degrees/master-engineering-software/entry-requirements#entry-requirements

As I have stated to you already in a previous thread - these two areas are completely different to each other... my personal recommendation to you would be to figure out which one of the two you actually want to do and stick with it. Transitioning from an arts-based degree to a very applied/technical discipline can be tough (and vice versa), ESPECIALLY at a masters level.

[spectroscopy]

Hi,

I was wondeirng what people would think about someone doing an undergraduate art degree (majoring economics and politics) then doing all the prerequisit subjects for engineering and then a masters in engineering?

Would this be too hard of a change or would it be possible? I've always been really interested in IT and Politics and would really like to study both.

at melbourne you cant do this if you want to do a bachelor of arts and major in economics as an undergrad.
 to meet the pre-reqs for the masters in engineering you need to do quite a number of breadth subjects, and in the bachelor of arts (majoring in economics) you immediately lose 6 of your breadth slots to economics subjects.
the requirements for the masters of eng is 2 first year maths and 2 first year programming sort of subjects. this is a problem as the major in economics immediately leaves you with 8-6 = 2 breadth slots left.

although it does say you can do any first year math so maybe when you do quantitative methods 1 (part of the eco major) MAYBE you could get that to count, as it is treated as a math subject by the uni even though it has an ECON subject code.
and then when you do second year quantitative methods/econometrics MAYBE they will count that too (but its a second year subject and they say you need to do a  first year one + you have the original "does it count as a math" dilemma).
 then you might be able to use your 2 remaining breadth slots for the other pre-requisties. but even then you will run into the problem that you can only do a maximum of 3 level-1 breadths and the above course plan will require you to do 5 as you will immediately have to do intro micro, intro macro ,and qm1, + the 2 programming subjects.

 so basically it will be impossible for you to do this pathway that you have planned.
very sorry about that

[Kindergarten]

at melbourne you cant do this if you want to do a bachelor of arts and major in economics as an undergrad.
 to meet the pre-reqs for the masters in engineering you need to do quite a number of breadth subjects, and in the bachelor of arts (majoring in economics) you immediately lose 6 of your breadth slots to economics subjects.
the requirements for the masters of eng is 2 first year maths and 2 first year programming sort of subjects. this is a problem as the major in economics immediately leaves you with 8-6 = 2 breadth slots left.

although it does say you can do any first year math so maybe when you do quantitative methods 1 (part of the eco major) MAYBE you could get that to count, as it is treated as a math subject by the uni even though it has an ECON subject code.
and then when you do second year quantitative methods/econometrics MAYBE they will count that too (but its a second year subject and they say you need to do a  first year one + you have the original "does it count as a math" dilemma).
 then you might be able to use your 2 remaining breadth slots for the other pre-requisties. but even then you will run into the problem that you can only do a maximum of 3 level-1 breadths and the above course plan will require you to do 5 as you will immediately have to do intro micro, intro macro ,and qm1, + the 2 programming subjects.

 so basically it will be impossible for you to do this pathway that you have planned.
very sorry about that

I guess I could just drop the eco component then and instead just do a few eocnomic breadths. Then I would have enough to satisfy the prereqs right?