Bachelor competency based

[Merlin]

From what I've heard, I think the WGU programs include a lot of writing. If you want to test out of everything with as little writing as possible, you're better off with one of the Big 3.

The WGU undergrad degrees tend to skew a bit more towards OA's (exams) than PA's (papers, projects, or presentations). There are a handful of courses that require both, but typically it is one or the other. But overall it is around 2/3rd OA's and 1/3 PA's in most programs from what I've seen.

A master's degree at WGU also requires a mix of OA's and PA's but runs the opposite of undergrad. So most degrees tend to skew toward more PA's than OA's with some courses requiring both. The WGU MBA has more OA's than the MSML, but only like 1 or 2 more, but is still more PA's than OA's.

Any graduate degree, regardless of where you attend or whether it is competency-based or not, will require a ton of writing. It is pretty much a defining feature of graduate-level work. Whether that be at the master, doctoral, or post-doctoral level.

In undergrad, you will tend to find more papers required in upper-division courses than in lower-division. This is because lower-division courses tend to be focused on the acquisition of knowledge while upper-division courses are more about the application of knowledge.