WGU IT Program Changes 9/14/20

[Merlin]

1. They replaced C993 (Structured Query Language) with D191 (Advanced Data Management) in the major. Both courses appear to have the same competencies and transfer guidelines. The difference is that D191 only offers 3 CU instead of the 4 CU that C993 offered.
   
2. They added a new course to the major: D194 (IT Leadership Foundations) which is also a 3 CU course. The transfer guidelines for this course indicate that it can be waived by transferring in an upper-level Leadership or Organizational Behavior class.
   

So these are the only changes? Asking because my husband is debating between WGU and Purdue Global. His boss has already told him which one he prefers.

As far as I can tell, yes. I started by comparing the 2018-09 program guide against the 2020-11 program guide and then cross-referenced that with the IT transfer guidelines for CS degrees on the website and those were the only changes that I could find. Of course, the new changes don't go into effect until November, so it's possible that changes will surface in the final version of the program. I haven't contacted folks at WGU yet to ask if there are any other changes slated, but I may do that later.

I'm glad they changed C993, but I still think it's odd that they threw an IT Leadership course into the CS degree. My guess is that since they replaced a 4 CU course with a 3 CU course, they had to make up the deficit and added another 3 CU course rather than make up the 1 CU difference by making another course more difficult.

So, which program does your husband's boss recommend?