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Originally Posted by nostatic
As for someone who wants to be an engineer, getting a BA degree from a good liberal arts school then getting an MS in engineering will (arguably) set someone up to succeed later in life better than a BS from an engineering school.
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They are two very different career paths. Very very few credits that apply to a BA degree will transfer to an MS or even a BS for that matter. Technical writing might help but for what I want to do I have found it advantageous to write at an 8th grade level i.e. no one wants to read it so there is little point in my writing it.
I thought the University of Missouri Rolla was now called Missouri Institute of Technology. The only knock I have heard about it from people I work with is the area of the state it is located in. and the lack of girls