Yes, you can get your Master’s in something different (even completely different) from your Bachelor’s. However, you must always satisfy the pre-req’s for the program you are considering. In some circumstances, you may as well go ahead and get the Bachelor’s while you’re getting those pre-req’s done. I know of one case where the difference between just getting the pre-req’s done and getting the relavent Bachelor’s done (which automatically gets you the pre-req’s for the Master’s) is roughly a year’s worth of work, worst case.
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In the early 80’s there weren’t many undergrad. programs in Computer Science so generally we accepted people in graduate programs who didn’t have CS B.S.s. The Chair of the CS department at a Famous University in California (sort of rhymes with “Landlord”) actually preferred that they didn’t have undergrad. CS degrees. Quote: “They’re easier to toilet train.” How touching.
Things have obviously changed but there is still enough of a holdover that CS it noted for accepting outsiders (as long as they are willing to do the catchup work).
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Re the leveling work: the graduate program I was in had a special series of courses specifically for new grad students who did not have a CS background. It was two semesters that covered the equivalent of the undergrads’ four-semester CS I-IV series, and expected the grad students to do a lot more learning on their own. I don’t know whether a journalism school would have that kind of a class/series, but maybe they would if the program you’re applying to gets a lot of non-J-degree applicants. Good luck!
B.A. in French Literature, MBA in Marketing. Most programs prefer you do NOT have a degree in business. Everyone in my program took intro to Accounting, Marketing, Management, Economics, Information Science, etc. in the first year. I imagine all of that remedial work would have been very redundant for business undergrads.
BA in Linguistics
MA in Creative Writing
MA in Counseling Psychology
PsyD in Clinical Psychology
The MA in Creative Writing required a portfolio.
The MA in Counseling Psychology was a prerequisite for my doctoral program, but some would admit you with a certain amount of prerequisite work in psychology (e.g., stats, volunteer human service work, a research class, etc.).
Sure there is. You just need take any required pre-requisite classes that you may not have taken.
A former co-worker of mine had a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, and decided he wanted to become a physician. He took part-time courses for about two years, including a year of organic chemistry, an anatomy course, and some course on diseases.
He also took a class on preparing for the MCAT. Despite his “C” undergraduate average, his killer MCAT score got him into a med school.
