Hi all

Don't know if this would fly in the US, but here's a suggestion: try the Open 
University.

This is the UK's distance learning university. It consistently gets the highest 
ratings for student satisfaction of all UK 
universities, and it also has a high reputation academically.

The point being: you can sign up for postgraduate courses if you have an 
undergraduate degree. And for a lot of the ones in the 
computing area, there aren't any entry requirements at all: you merely have to 
decide that you have enough background knowledge to 
tackle it.

Warning: these courses aren't an easy option. You'll have to set aside 8 or 16 
hours a week, do assignments, and take an exam.

Get a good result and you'd have demonstrated that you can stick it out at 
postgrad level (= USA grad school) and pass exams at that 
level.

Only a few OU courses can be studied in the USA, but luckily most of the ones 
that are available are in management or computing so 
are likely to be at least somewhat relevant to IXDA people .

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/countries/USA.shtm (Note: levels 1, 2, and 3 are 
undergraduate. Skip down the page a bit to get to 
postgraduate).

For non-US people who might be interested: the same list applies to most 
countries outside the EU. If you're inside the EU, or in 
Switzerland, the Channel Islands, and a couple of other European countries then 
you can study a much wider range of stuff.

(Declaration of interest: the OU is a major client of mine).

Caroline Jarrett
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