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average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - EducationSeeker - 06-28-2019
I am also looking at WGU as it really looks like a cost effective option for my wife to get her Bachelor's in Marketing from WGU. She got evaluated at 108 credits out of 120 credits. I am wondering what your experiences were in how long it took you to get through this degree. I realize the answer is "it depends on you" but, I am looking at people's experiences and averages. Is this degree doable in 1 year if you transfer in 78 credits for GL/LL courses and then do 30 business credits at WGU in 6 months. She would need to take 26 courses/CBE's in 6 months. Is this completely crazy or doable? Opinions wanted!
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RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - MNomadic - 06-28-2019
A lot of people have done it. It comes down to if she wants to do it and can commit to doing it and spend most of her free time working through her courses.
RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - quigongene - 06-28-2019
I was pretty motivated and finished 15 courses in just under 4 months (bear in mind I was very familiar with 90% of the material). 26 might be doable in 6 months, but you're effectively looking at a course per week with no "life" happening in the meantime. I wouldn't count on being able to do it in one term.
Edit: Are you looking at doing 26 through WGU, or 26 total?
RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - natshar - 06-28-2019
Does your wife have a job? Does she have a lot commitments outside of work. Those would be a factor. The more time you have the easier it will be to complete courses.
RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - EducationSeeker - 06-28-2019
(06-28-2019, 08:08 AM)quigongene Wrote: I was pretty motivated and finished 15 courses in just under 4 months (bear in mind I was very familiar with 90% of the material). 26 might be doable in 6 months, but you're effectively looking at a course per week with no "life" happening in the meantime. I wouldn't count on being able to do it in one term.
Edit: Are you looking at doing 26 through WGU, or 26 total?
For my wife, she would need to to do 26 classes (3 credits each) on Saylor, Study.com, or SL before she would transfer in the other 78 credit hours (she got 12 credits from WGU already) to WGU. Then, she would complete the remaining 30 cr hours to complete the Bachelors in Business. Considering my wife's normal work pace, 1 year is probably to aggressive to expect her to finish. I am thinking a total of 1.5 years with 6-12 months to complete the 26 non-WGU hours and 6 mos. to complete the remaining 30 hours at WGU.
RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - quigongene - 06-28-2019
Is Modern States/CLEP not an option? I CLEP'ed out of most of the gen eds. 30 CUs in 6 months shouldn't be too much of an issue.
RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - EducationSeeker - 06-29-2019
(06-28-2019, 04:15 PM)quigongene Wrote: Is Modern States/CLEP not an option? I CLEP'ed out of most of the gen eds. 30 CUs in 6 months shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Quigongene,
To clarify, I believe she would need take 26 (78 cr. hours) remaining CBE exams/courses before she transferred in and started at WGU to maximize the cost savings.
In the Bachelor of Mktg Mgmt at WGU for her, I had planned on her being able to complete all (if not most or else use Study.com/SL/Khan Academy...cheap/free credit for rest of GL/business core classes) the remaining 78 credit hours (26 classes) using free CLEP tests from Modern States and the free voucher.
To clarify your comment, is a Competency Unit (CU) at WGU typically to 3 semester credit hours? Did you accomplish 30 CU (90 cr hrs) all through CLEP or what other sources did you use? It looks like some of the Gen Ed. classes are not offered through CLEP, but, are offered via Study.com, SL, Davar Academy, etc? I only observed about 4-5 classes if that many she could not do through CLEP?
On average, how many classes did you get through per week/month? Did you find you worked on avg amount of time or in spurts where you had more time or felt motivated? I know she would likely not have much of a social life outside of being a mom and working 40 hrs a week. Thankfully, our kids are 13 and 17 so fairly self sufficient.
Did you also move through the remaining 30 CU's (15 cr hours) in 6 months at WGU or did it take you longer/shorter? I think it would be more likely she would take about 6 months to 1 year to complete remaining CLEP GL/business core classes and 6 months of business upper level core programs.
Thanks,
EducationSeeker
RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - dfrecore - 06-29-2019
(06-29-2019, 05:47 PM)EducationSeeker Wrote:(06-28-2019, 04:15 PM)quigongene Wrote: Is Modern States/CLEP not an option? I CLEP'ed out of most of the gen eds. 30 CUs in 6 months shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Quigongene,
To clarify, I believe she would need take 26 (78 cr. hours) remaining CBE exams/courses before she transferred in and started at WGU to maximize the cost savings.
In the Bachelor of Mktg Mgmt at WGU for her, I had planned on her being able to complete all (if not most or else use Study.com/SL/Khan Academy...cheap/free credit for rest of GL/business core classes) the remaining 78 credit hours (26 classes) using free CLEP tests from Modern States and the free voucher.
To clarify your comment, is a Competency Unit (CU) at WGU typically to 3 semester credit hours? Did you accomplish 30 CU (90 cr hrs) all through CLEP or what other sources did you use? It looks like some of the Gen Ed. classes are not offered through CLEP, but, are offered via Study.com, SL, Davar Academy, etc? I only observed about 4-5 classes if that many she could not do through CLEP?
There are about 12 courses you take take for that degree through CLEP (I can't remember how many courses she already has that might be duplicates with that).
The remaining may be gotten through Study.com, SL, DSST, whatever.
Then, there are 31 credits that can't be transferred in, that she would have to do through WGU.
RE: average time to finish WGU - opinions wanted - Ideas - 06-29-2019
(06-28-2019, 02:57 PM)EducationSeeker Wrote: For my wife, she would need to to do 26 classes (3 credits each) on Saylor, Study.com, or SL before she would transfer in the other 78 credit hours (she got 12 credits from WGU already) to WGU. Then, she would complete the remaining 30 cr hours to complete the Bachelors in Business. Considering my wife's normal work pace, 1 year is probably to aggressive to expect her to finish. I am thinking a total of 1.5 years with 6-12 months to complete the 26 non-WGU hours and 6 mos. to complete the remaining 30 hours at WGU.
That seems like a good plan.