(03-29-2024, 07:45 AM)LadyWithCats Wrote: Hello. I'd like to earn a secondary master's like generic MBA from WGU. I already have MSN in healthcare administration and management.  Which courses satisfy WGU requirement for MBA from Sophia, EdX, Study.com etc? I'd like to possibly take additional courses over the summer to finishing degree sooner. Thanks for your help!

(03-29-2024, 09:44 AM)Jonathan Whatley Wrote: WGU recently slightly liberalized graduate transfer credit. You can review transfer guidelines for each WGU degree here.

Two courses can be transferred into the MBA in Healthcare Management, each equivalent to 3 graduate CUs: one in organizational behavioral leadership (towards C200 Managing Organizations and Leading People) and another in business ethics or ethical leadership (towards C206 Ethical Leadership). For the generic MBA, one additional course can be transferred, also for 3 graduate CUs: in business communication for leaders (towards C204 Management Communication).

There are no known ACE courses in these subjects available to the general public at the graduate level, which is essential. There are an extremely few NCCRS graduate courses in business, but as of last report WGU has never taken NCCRS credit.

You might be able to pioneer the tactic of taking graduate courses from a low-cost college that isn't WGU and transferring the credit to WGU. Because WGU is friendly to nationally accredited credit, you might see if you could match those courses at Nexford University or Bottega University. But it might not save much or any cost or time over completing the courses at WGU.

It's also possible WGU might accept one or more courses you've already completed toward your MSN in healthcare administration toward one or more of their transferable courses!

(03-29-2024, 12:18 PM)Imbanewbie Wrote: You need to take courses from the Master's degree in leadership and management in order to transfer them into the MBA program within WGU. WGU does not accept graduate credits from other universities.

(03-29-2024, 12:28 PM)Jonathan Whatley Wrote: WGU's current published Transfer Guidelines for each MBA program (generic, healthcare management, IT management) imply otherwise. They describe WGU reviewing transcripts from "previously attended institutions" to award transfer credit for up to two or three specified transferable courses in each degree.

This reflects WGU very recently opening the door to graduate transfer credit a little more than it had been before, I believe.

(03-29-2024, 02:18 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: @LadyWithCats, Welcome to the board, it's great you're asking questions, but you're not providing the overall picture for us to really figure this out for you.  Basically, where did you get the MSN? Was it from WGU?  Sophia.org, Study.com, and many ACE providers only have undergrad level ACE credit.  You really have a couple of options, either take the classes at WGU and finish them quickly or as mentioned, get the grad credit elsewhere and transfer them in, but most likely these institutions charge much more and will take longer to complete.