Hey everyone! I finished my undergraduate degree early last year with TUI and I was thinking about my next steps... As an "International student" I didn't really have a lot of opertunities to get a degree while I was working in my home country. Therefore distance education seemed like the best option for me. I decided on TUI because it was an RA school and the study method also appealed to me. As far as the TUI experience I found it quite demanding and I managed quite well by spending around 3-4 hours a day studying. I graduated in their BSCS degree program with aprox. 3.96 GPA. I don't know whether there is a stigma surrounding TUI these days with the accreditation issues they face or whether that or anything involving distance education will affect my education aspirations. I have been looking into programs at b&m schools in the USA recently and I was wondering whether my hopes for admission into certain schools were feasible or not. I for example checked out a program at Georgia Tech that I am greatly interested in, MS in Information Security, and whether based on the previously mentioned degree I stand a chance of gaining admission. On top of my degree I have other things that might aid in my admissions process: I have tought, with one other person, the entire "Security and encryption" course at the University of Iceland for two semesters now. I don't know exactly what you call that kind of work but I basically did everything including creating the exams (later reviewed and accepted by the professor obviously). I have pretty extensively been a part of the information security community by writing papers and writing security related tools/exploits/etc. I have a BS7799 Lead auditor cert, a policy certification for a security standard. I have also worked exclusively in information security for the past four years doing various audits of large financial institutions as well as security related research. A part from that I have pretty extensive programming abilities in various languages. I do know that I will have to take a GRE exam and I have already played around with test exams and done quite well. Anyways if you think I don't stand a chance in hell getting into that school or any helpful advice then please reply to this post.
Theodor, I am also an Icelandic citizen and am working on my Masters at the U of L. See link. MSc Information Security Leo
I know many graduates of Georgia Tech. From what you described I think you have a very good chance on getting in at just about any US grad school. If you make around a 1200 on the GRE, with that GPA from an RA school, distance or not, you are pretty much in there.
