Documenting My Son's WGU Experience

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I know the page is not easy to find; but, once it's linked to here, aren't people's questions answered? If you're asking about a course that is not on their website, not even TESU or Excelsior will always give you an answer without being enrolled. I paid my application fee, and Excelsior told me that I needed to enroll to have a couple of courses further evaluated. They're probably the only school that does this.

Part of the problem is that they have different courses they accept for different degree programs. So for SL for instance, the Teacher's College accepts different courses for different areas than the IT college. It can get very confusing to try to figure out, even within the different degree programs within the college.

For Study.com, they accept courses, but they don't have the equivalencies laid out. Even for the one degree that they do, it's still confusing as heck to try to figure out what they will and won't accept for it. And it's impossible to figure out if they will accept these courses for all of the degrees or not, because the rest aren't done, and they aren't consistent. Western Governors University | B.S. Accounting

Even for WGU's website, they list what they'll accept for Natural Sciences - but they don't word it the way they word it on their degree requirements. For instance, on the BSIT for Cybersecurity degree, they want Integrated Physical Sciences (3cr), and Natural Science Lab (2cr). On their website, they list "a selection of courses that may meet Natural Science transfer requirements." They list them by types of science - Physical Science, Bio, Anatomy, Physics, Astronomy, etc. But, they don't explain which courses meet the Natural Science Lab requirements (none of which are 2cr anyway) or which ones you can take for the Integrated Physical Sciences. https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/alternati...al_science

It's just confusing, and if they aren't going to clearly label what is what using their own vernacular, then at the very least, the people that work there should be able to tell you more info. Instead, they're clueless as well!

It would be nice if they had someone go through and try to make their website consistent. I know, this is a pet peeve of mine with TESU as well. How hard would it be to just go on your website and make things clear?? Make every degree easy to figure out. Use the same language throughout so people could figure these things out on their own without an entire forum dedicated to helping figure it out for people!