WGU Education Degrees

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I have no experience with them other than applying (which was a horrible experience, but I won't go into that). They are ranked very high by U.S. News and some education organization for teacher preparation. I believe they were ranked #1 for elementary teacher preparation and #16 for something else. However, I recommend looking into your state's alternative teacher certification program unless you have a limited number of schools in your area that will accept provisionally licensed teachers. WGU and other "traditional" certification programs require a semester of unpaid, student teaching, and you have to pay a fee to the school. It makes it very difficult to work.

California has a completely online CalTEACH program, and they allow you to be paid during your student teaching (if you can find a school who will do that). I have a friend going through it right now (she graduated 20 years ago with a degree in Marketing). Not that I have a clue where you live, but if lame CA has something like this, I'm sure other states do as well (and it's not too terribly expensive either).