I'm thinking of applying to OMSCS, which is a fully-online MS in Computer Science offered by Georgia Tech. It's also quite affordable, as the whole program costs around $7k (roughly RM30k).

I have a CS degree from local university. However, Georgia Tech requires that I have a degree equivalent to a US 4-year degree. As you know, Malaysia education system is similar to UK, so bachelors degree is usually only 3 years (so is mine). I contacted them, and they said that my degree will not be recognized as it's only 3 years.

Any ideas how to get my degree to be equivalent to a 4-year US degree? Take extra courses?

This post has been edited by imnotabot: Jun 19 2019, 02:01 PM

After some googling, it seems like this is a common issue even among students from UK, where their degree is 3 years. Example discussion: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4424192

If you are referring to Georgia Tech, they are pretty well known, and is currently number 8 graduate CS school in US.

Good news is that I managed to get in even with a 3-year degree. My application was about to get rejected due to it being only 3 years, but I decided to appeal, saying that even though it's only 3 years, it's equivalent to a US 4-year degree because I had to take 1 year foundation. AFAIK, in US, once you graduated from high school, you can straight away get into college, while in Malaysia you have to take pre-university (form 6, matriculation, A-level, foundation, etc.). After about a month, the supervisor of the graduate admission decided to approve my application and I got in.

As for your case, I don't think you will have an issue because you have a 4-year degree, and it is from a well-established public university (my degree is from a crappy private college, and the degree has non-standard name instead of "BSc in Computer Science"). My advice is do give it a try! You will need to take TOEFL if you haven't done so, and score at least 100/120. You also have to fork out $195 for TOEFL and $85 for the application fee. You can pm me if you need more info.

This post has been edited by imnotabot: Sep 3 2019, 11:13 PM