Does Anybody Know If One Can Get A Masters in Engineering Without Undergrad Engineering Experience?

I have a friend who studied math in undergrad and says if he could go back and do it all over again, he'd choose engineering. So I was wondering if there are any engineering masters programs that would work for someone with an advanced math background, but no exposure to engineering.

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lol he would choose engineering???

and yes, masters of engineering programs will admit someone with an advanced math background

Specific admission requirements vary by department; click here to view departmental requirements. In general, most departments require significant work in mathematics and the physical sciences in addition to preparation in a specific field of interest, but some admit students with as little as one year each of college-level mathematics and physical science. Students with minor deficiencies in preparation may be admitted, but they must make up prerequisite general or professional subjects before proceeding.

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depends on the engineering type. a comp engineering/comp sci grad program most likely won't admit someone without programming or circuits/algo knowledge.

 
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Former engineer here.

The answer to this question really depends on what courses he's taken for UG. IMO, these are the majors he's eligible for: - CS masters: If he knows programming (atleast 1 each of data-structures, discrete math, algorithms, and maybe functional programming (requirement varies between universities)) he's absolutely eligible for a CS masters. - Operations Research - Probably his best bet. - Electrical masters: Electrical Eng. is a huge field in terms of breath. To be eligible for any sub-field, though, he needs to have atleast had some exposure to analog and digital circuits. He also needs to have taken a few courses in the area he plans to specialize in (computer architecture for comp eng., device physics for semiconductors, transistor theory/vlsi for circuits). The most mathematical fields in Electrical are Information Theory and Signal Processing - if he's had some exposure to either, he'd be a great match for this with a math ug.

Some universities have some weird ass majors like Info Sciences that have less stringent requirements, but these majors usually don't place well into good engineering jobs.

 

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