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Cheapest Route to WGU Business Bachelors Degree - rowan555 - 11-19-2016
I just put this together based on my son's current plan - I switched a few courses he took at SL to Saylor because it's cheaper if you are willing to put up with Saylor - he only made it through 9 credits with them. Anyway, thought this might help someone. This is for the HR Management Business Degree, so 4 or 5 courses will be different for another business degree - most of the differences would be in the courses actually taken at WGU, though, so the preparation plans are not much different.
WGU Business Degree â HR Management Concentration Degree Plan
Saylor $275
Intro to Business
Marketing Fundamentals
Business Communication
Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Comparative Politics (meets geography requirement)
College Algebra
Biology, Chemistry, or Physics
Statistics
Business Law/Ethics
Accounting
Straighterline $700 - $900 depending on time taken and coupons used
Intro Religion or Philosophy (Humanities requirement)
English Composition 1
English Composition 2
Business Statistics
Principles of Management
Intro to Communication
Business Ethics
Organizational Behavior
Managerial Accounting
Psychology
Study.com $398
HR Management
Principles of Finance
Global Business
Project Management
WGU $3,000 if completed in one term
Integrated Natural Science Applications (task based assessments)
Critical Thinking and Logic (exam based)
Information Systems Management (exam based)
Spreadsheets (exam based)
Change Management (exam + task based)
Employment Law (exam based)
Workforce Planning (exam + task based)
Training and Development (exam + task based)
Compensation and Benefits (exam + task based)
Cases in Advanced IT Management (task based assessments)
Capstone
Portfolio Project
Cheapest Route to WGU Business Bachelors Degree - dfrecore - 11-19-2016
Cool, thanks for that.
A few more courses you can take:
For science, you can take almost anything: DSST, SL, CLEP - not sure if they require a lab or not
CSU-Global has Employment Law
CSU-Global has Critical Reasoning
Propero has Critical Thinking (ACP)
DSST has MIS exam
Ed4Credit has Managing Information Systems (ACP)
CSU-Global has Org Innovation & Change
Penn Foster has Training Concepts
Penn Foster has Employee Benefits
Penn Foster has Compensation Management
Not that you would want to take all of them, as they're all $250-$300 apiece - but if you thought you might need 1-2 more courses in order to get through the WGU term more quickly, this might help someone.
Good luck to your son!
Cheapest Route to WGU Business Bachelors Degree - rowan555 - 11-19-2016
Quick note regarding WGU's science requirements - they require a 3 credit science and also a 4 credit science/lab combo, OR an associates degree will clear both those requirements whether you took the courses or not. The science/lab combo can be taken at Straighterline and I'm sure other places, but I didn't include it because of the cost, and because from all I've read, if someone works pretty hard at it, they can complete the 4 credit science applications course in a week.
Cheapest Route to WGU Business Bachelors Degree - TrailRunr - 11-19-2016
Did anyone save the transfer guidelines documents from WGU. They are now password protected. Some of them still are in Google cache.
Edit: The WVNCC AAS BOG degree (mentioned in another thread) may be a good route to get around the science lab if the OP in that thread succeeds in graduating with zero residency credits.
Cheapest Route to WGU Business Bachelors Degree - onmygo - 11-25-2016
I love you for this!!!
Cheapest Route to WGU Business Bachelors Degree - rowan555 - 11-25-2016
onmygo Wrote:I love you for this!!!
Aw, thanks, I hope it will be helpful to you. It's been a steep learning curve figuring all this out, but finding this forum made things so much easier.