West Texas A&M ACE/Study.com not accepted for Masters work

[Gloddy]

Are you adamant in going for that Finance degree? Have you investigated the MBA program as well?  Someone on this board is taking the MBA program and I didn't read that they had any issues, they may not have taken those exact courses from Study.com though:  See here - https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid261151

Thanks for the response. Maybe Kaskadia will see this and add some light.

Of course I am now second guessing my decision.  3 extra classes isnt't the end of the world but I am 45 and time is not on my side at least professionally.  Now I can't help but to reconsider the MBA, especially through WGU. My only challenge to this is the program is un-ranked (I don't care, but people on the east coast in Financial Services do) and I would prefer to get a masters in Finance.

To put it into perspective, I have a client who earned their PHD from Texas A&M in the 80's. When I mentioned this program, the response was "it's online though, right?".  The client wasn't being pretentious or condescending, more like, why bother?

I always appreciate the views here, so if you are reading this, please feel free to chime in.

Thanks
Gloddy

Hi Gloddy!

Unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you. I'm currently knocking out my WTAMU MBA and I'm required to take three "leveling courses" for Accounting, Finance, and Statistics. As you're well aware it's quite frustrating to have already done these courses and then have to go and knock them out again. I ran into a miscommunication of sorts with my advisor; I was under the impression that I wouldn't have to take any of the leveling courses but after I had already started I was informed that I would indeed have to complete these courses. This semester I'm knocking out my accounting leveling course; then I've got another two after this one.

All that being said, these leveling courses are designed for people with no exposure to the subject. In my experience so far this semester these leveling courses have been really really easy since I've already taken multiple accounting courses. I'm treating it as a refresher; the only regret I have is only taking one course this semester. I wouldn't let this be the thing that turns you away from WT. It's a bummer to retake courses but WT is a good school and these classes aren't as bad as you might think.

If you feel comfortable with the leveling subjects you need to take I'd consider going wild during the summer semesters. WT has two summer semesters and you could knock out all three required leveling courses in the space of one semester. Summer semesters are really short and full of work but if you feel comfortable doing something like this it would save you a lot of time.

Best of luck!

Kas

Thanks Kas!

I am fairly fair along with the application process at The University of Scranton.  I may have to take the leveling courses there as well but won't know for sure until they get all of my transcripts.

Here on the East Coast it is a little more well known but has similar rankings to West Texas A&M.

I did ask for a tuition estimate for the program and leveling courses.  It was over$20k.  I thought I could do it for under $13k. I was way off.  Scranton will be more expensive (East Cost) coming in around $27k with my company's discount of 10% to attend the school. I will report back if I have to do the leveling courses at Scranton.

Gloddy