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[learner12]

Dear teachers:

http://webcampus.stevens.edu/requirements.aspx

1. Undergraduate Degree
In order to be admitted to the graduate programs at Stevens Institute of Technology online certificate programs, (*) (1) you will need to have completed your undergraduate degree at an accredited institution. (2) You do not need to have completed your undergraduate degree to take training programs.

Why did the author write "you will need to ..." instead of "you need to"?

I don't understand the sequence of the passage above.
(1) you will need to have ...
(2) you do not need ...

The tenses of (1) and (2) are different. Is it logical?

What do you mean by this "will"? Does "will" have any meaning?

thank you in advance.

[CP]

It's just a way to say that if you want to enroll in this, you will need that.

I would have written it as, To be admitted to a graduate program, you must first have an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution. However, no degree is needed to enroll in a training program.
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[learner12]

Dear CP:

Thank you so much for your great explanation.

TGIF.