Have 120 credits, how to get degree from Big three or any else? help please!!!

Few issues with the Master's. In IT, most positions require only a Bachelors so the Master's would make you overqualified for 95% of the positions available. The other issue is Money, getting the extra 30 credits by testing out Microsoft certifications is a lot cheaper than getting a Master's.

 

Maybe if you really know your stuff you should just go get a CCNA. Nobody seems to question the knowledge of anybody with a Cisco certification. That combined with your degree should pull as much weight as a US degree, I would guess.

 

My friend she has bachelor degree from the University of the West Indies in Accounting & Economics and a master of business administration from Nova. However she earned the Nova mba from a satellite program in the West Indies. Because she did not have Canadian experience, almost all employers disregard her education. This woman is very intelligent but wasted many years doing jobs far below her ability.

My advice is to go the professional route first then the academic. It's advice that I have used myself and advice that I have given to other university educated immigrants. Get that jobs first so you could finance the academic degree.

 

Yes there are many, many Americans right now that can't find work with American Degrees. I would think the immigrants would be harder hit with a foreign degree.

 

Must be worse in Pakistan if he is willing to do that.

When I was 16 I worked for Mail Boxes Etc.(now FEDEX) My assistant manager was from Pakistan, he was a officer in the Pakistan Air force. He had a bachelor’s degree in something, I don't remember now. There must be something really wrong with degrees from there for people like this not to be able to find work.

 

Pakistan Education System took a major turn in the year 2000, when the Higher Education Commission (HEC) was upgraded and was provided with sufficient funds to improve the Education System. The Intellectuals at HEC reformed the whole curriculum, and made it at par with International Standards.

From Year 2000, a student can only graduate if he has minimum of 130 credits or more for Engineeing and IT related majors. The students graduated in the new system are accepted worldwide and are working in International organizations / firms / companies. I know Pakistanis working in Microsoft, IBM and even NASA. So, its not write to say that the degrees are not acceptable. They are rather well respected.

Students with 120 credits degrees were given option by HEC to upgrade their degrees by taking more courses, and even i have done so.

 

and more about the acceptance, the students from Punjab University (From where the owner of the thread has earned a 120 credits degree in CS) are studying at Cambridge, Imperial College London, Oxford University, Harvard and MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas etc.

To conclude, there is no need to blame the country's name. It depends on an indiviual's calibre that how he is going to adjust with the rapid developments in our society.

 

This is a good idea, he or she can also use the Cisco or Microsoft certifications for extra credit in order to reach the extra 30 credits required.