Racking up credits to transfer to WGU?

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This is true, but at least for the Business school, it's pretty easy to get 90 credits and enroll needing only 10 courses to graduate - doable if you work your butt off for 1 term, but pretty easily doable if you plan on 2 terms. 5 classes in 6 months isn't all that much to accomplish. Particularly when a few of them are pretty basic courses and the cornerstone.

I didn't say it wasn't doable - I just said that it needs to be planned out. AND, once you start adding up the costs of taking the courses you want to transfer in first, it starts to get more expensive. For instance, if you could get all of your courses for an average of $100 per course (completely doable, and probably on the high end, you can probably do it for a little less) - then the cost for the courses is $2700, and then the $2850 for WGU, making the degree $5550. A little less than TESU or COSC.

BUT, if you don't complete the 10 courses you need in a single term, then you're at $8400. A lot more than it would have cost to go through TESU or COSC which are about $6500. So it definitely does not pay to do it this way. You really need to plan out the degree, take all of your courses, and then commit to finishing in a single term no matter what.

If you want to do a 2-term program, then it's $5700 for those terms, and so to make it less than TESU, you could only take about 8 courses ahead of time, and then do 30 classes at WGU in 2 terms. I think that seems like a LOT of work.

So again, my advice is to plan it out carefully, to make the most of your time at WGU. That might mean taking everything you can ahead of time, and maybe even studying up on the courses you're going to take at WGU ahead of time as well, so you can breeze through them while you're there. For instance, maybe you have a Study.com membership, and you take courses for credit. But, you also take Digital Marketing, Marketing Research, and Global Marketing - all not for credit so no paying extra - to make it easier to get through the Marketing Applications course at WGU. Or you take the Intro to Computing and Info Systems courses to prepare you for Intro to IT. Or the MS Excel Certification course to prepare you for spreadsheets. Not saying you SHOULD do this, as I have no clue. Just saying that you could find some ways to get ahead of the curve before you enrolled at WGU.