WGU Personalized Start: Single Courses Now $99, With Limits

[Jonathan Whatley]

WGU is now offering up to two individual for-credit courses per eligible student for $99 per course, and up to one Course Bundle (consisting of two courses) per eligible student for $199 (or $299 in the case of the Information Technology Course Bundle, which comes with a certification; third-party certifications connected to an individual course may bear an additional cost). These are not eligible for federal financial aid.

Previously promoted as "WGU Academy," these offers are now promoted as a "Personalized Start" for potential future students in a full WGU bachelor’s degree program to which the Personalized Start course or courses would apply.

Single courses available presently are the following. Each course bears 3 Competency Units of undergraduate credit and lasts 2 months except where listed.

• American Politics and the U.S. Constitution
  
• Applied Algebra
  
• CompTIA IT Fundamentals (4 CUs, 3 months)
  
• English Composition I
  
• Introduction to Biology
  
• Ethics in Technology
  
• Fundamentals of Information Security
  
• Fundamentals of Spreadsheets and Data Presentations
  
• Introduction to Psychology
  
• Introduction to Sociology
  
• Introduction to Statistics
  
• Program for Academic and Career Advancement (PACA): Introduction to Communications & Reflective Development (3 CUs, 3 months)
  
• Precalculus (3 CUs, 3 months)
  
• Project Management
  
• U.S. History
  

Each Course Bundle available presently consists of two courses: one PACA (Program for Academic and Career Advancement): Introduction to Communications & Reflective Development and the other a restricted selection from among the courses listed above. Each Course Bundle lasts either 3 or 4 months. Course Bundles are organized and titled based on the type of WGU bachelor's they ladder to. For example, the Computer Science Course Bundle is PACA plus Precalculus.

WGU's Single Course Offerings page
WGU's Course Bundles page

[RachelB]

Single courses available presently are the following. Each course bears 3 Competency Units of undergraduate credit and lasts 2 months except where listed.

• American Politics and the U.S. Constitution
  
• Applied Algebra
  
• CompTIA IT Fundamentals (4 CUs, 3 months)
  
• English Composition I
  
• Introduction to Biology
  
• Ethics in Technology
  
• Fundamentals of Information Security
  
• Fundamentals of Spreadsheets and Data Presentations
  
• Introduction to Psychology
  
• Introduction to Sociology
  
• Introduction to Statistics
  
• Program for Academic and Career Advancement (PACA): Introduction to Communications & Reflective Development (3 CUs, 3 months)
  
• Precalculus (3 CUs, 3 months)
  
• Project Management
  
• U.S. History
  

It's too bad you can't choose any two courses you'd like from their full catalog.

[bjcheung77]

It's getting there, if they can do something like the CBE option where it allows a mix/match of your choice and also no limit on classes in the two/three months, and the ability to do another two/three months to get more classes at the discount, that would be ideal... BTW, where these StraighterLine classes rebadged into WGU Academy? I think that's it, what I recall anyway...

[nykorn]

WGU told me if I start my last Master's term with very few courses left, they will charge me on a per course basis instead of the whole 6 month tuition fee.... but they didn't tell me how much each course would cost. Maybe these are the prices!

[bjcheung77]

I doubt that's the case, these are all undergrad and lower level at that... For the Masters level, hopefully, they'll charge something like $99/credit or less!

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