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How are people maxing out 90 credits before starting WGU Software Engineering? - onBrief - 05-30-2025
Hello guys,
I want to take Software Engineering at WGU and I wanted to max out as many transferable courses as possible. I have completed 68 credits from Sophia and Study.com. I was wondering where i can take any of these courses than can be transferred to WGU.
- D339 Technical Communication
- D333 Ethics in Technology
- D372 Introduction to Systems Thinking
- D336 Business of IT - Applications
- D386 Hardware and Operating Systems Essentials
- D480 Software Design and Quality Assurance
- D197 Version Control
- D280 JavaScript Programming
- D277 Front-End Web Development
- D479 User Experience Design
- D279 User Interface Design
- D385 Software Security and Testing
- D308 Mobile Application Development Using C#
- D424 Software Engineering Capstone
- C969 Software II – Advanced C#
- C968 Software I – C#
RE: How are people maxing out 90 credits before starting WGU Software Engineering? - bjcheung77 - 05-30-2025
Welcome to the board, great initial post to get the degree planning process started, having said that, it's missing the addendum and template here, it's best to provide some extra info such as your budget, commitments, credits, study habits, etc: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-New-to-DegreeForum-How-this-Area-works
Have you taken a look at the WGU WIKI or plans? Do you have a spreadsheet created for reference and tracking purposes?
WIKI: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University
PLANS: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:WGU
RE: How are people maxing out 90 credits before starting WGU Software Engineering? - origamishuttle - 05-31-2025
Your 68 credits may be essentially maxed out. There are other ways to get credit, but they may not be worth it for the extra time, money, and effort, compared to how easy it would be to complete the courses at WGU. One example is the ITIL exam:
https://www.wgu.edu/admissions/transfers/wgu-transcript-request/transferable-certifications.html
It's hundreds of dollars to take it on your own, but you can study for it while you're waiting to start at WGU, then knock it out right away.
There may be other places to complete some of the other courses, such as the DSST Technical Writing exam. However, WGU doesn't list transfers for CLEP or DSST, so you will only find out if it still transfers once you complete it and submit it for evaluation. Or if you already had a technical associate's degree already, they may grant a block transfer that would knock out three more courses. But you've already gotten all the low-hanging fruit, so at this point it's much easier to just complete the courses at WGU. As I mentioned earlier, you should be able to get enough information about several of the remaining courses to either pre-study for an exam or pre-write for the performance assessment, then pass those courses quickly when you start and move on to the rest. Best of luck!
RE: How are people maxing out 90 credits before starting WGU Software Engineering? - natshar - 06-01-2025
90 credit is technically the max for WGU, BUT for most programs you can't find 90 credits of transferrable courses, so I think for SWE degree 68 is probably the max.
RE: How are people maxing out 90 credits before starting WGU Software Engineering? - raekwon - 08-13-2025
You may not need this info anymore, but for anyone else who does... max transfer credit for WGU undergrad degrees is 75% of total credit minus the capstone. In this case, the max is 86, not 90. [(119-5)*0.75]
RE: How are people maxing out 90 credits before starting WGU Software Engineering? - bjcheung77 - 08-13-2025
OP hasn't logged back on since their first post... It's still best to see if you can get up to 86 credits with Coursera, Sophia.org, Study.com, StraighterLine and whatever else they take for ACE credits. Obviously, some credits can't be transferred in due to no alternative credit classes available, or it's a requirement for residency credits such as the capstone.