My WGU Evaluation and Completed BSBM

[JoshDosMil]

I'm just putting this information out there, hopefully it helps someone in a similar situation. Attached is my original WGU eval and my ACE course/cost breakdown. I used a garbage AAS from a closed school and ACE to transfer in the maximum credits and completed the BSBM in less than a term (easily). Total cost for the degree came to 4778.47, that is the combined cost of all of my ace classes, all supplies (calculator, etc), all of my application fees, and all of my transcripts sent in for evaluation to excelsior, wgu, cosc. Not too shabby if you ask me. 

My situation: needed a bachelors to compete for higher paying positions that my AAS didn't cover, since the AAS was from an NA school my transfer options were limited. 

The best evaluations I got were from Excelsior and WGU, WGU gave me a block transfer and Excelsior was just as generous so there was only a couple classes difference between the two. I began by taking courses that would fit both degree plans for the WGU BSBM or the Excelsior BSBA. Over the course of 6 months I had acquired enough credits to force me into a school decision. I ended up going (very slightly) in the WGU direction just to avoid having to take a couple Upper Level classes. I also liked that you could start and finish WGU whenever and didn't have to sign up for capstone or cornerstone and wait out the completion of those courses.

I found this program to be very easy, after spending several months taking tons of SDC business classes most of the WGU program was review and there was plenty of overlap. I told myself that it would keep my study.com pace of 2 classes a month to avoid having to pay for a second term and that turned out to be a great pace that was kept without sacrificing weekends or my social life. I was able to do a fair amount of study/writing in between work responsibilities which helped out a TON. 

The WGU classes (in order) I took were:

Ethics in Technology
Employment Law
Workforce Planning Recruitment and Selection
Spreadsheets
Business Management Tasks
Change Management
Training and Development
Business Strategy
Business Management Capstone
Operations and Supply Chain Management

If anyone has any questions about specific classes I would be happy to help.

The speed at which this can be done is a great value, I had 12 weeks left in my term when I finished. If I hadn't have had financial limitations or taken so long to decide between WGU and Excelsior I have no doubt that the complete degree could have been had in well under a year for less than 5K.  


  5-15-2019 TransferEvalPDF WGU.pdf (Size: 1.49 MB / Downloads: 93)

  ACE to WGU 2019.xlsx (Size: 30.99 KB / Downloads: 91)