WGU's new BS in Cloud and Systems Administration

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I don't disagree that some more higher level certs would be nice, but they're doing that a bit already with Cisco and SSCP (which is the highest you'll get with ISC2 before the CISSP). It'd be nice to see more of this. At the same time, the certs rolled into the program is pretty unique to WGU... IT programs elsewhere will get you a degree and maybe a discount to sit for certs, but they're not included or mandatory like WGU does it. So it's nice that ANYthing is being included.


I don't have anything against the CompTIA stuff though. They're certainly entry level certs, but at least they recognized unlike the CIW junk. Plenty of folks in the programs will be new to the field and CompTIA still holds weight for entry level jobs. Security+ is essentially necessary to work for the DoD in the field. They have their place.