WGU MS ITM review

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Hi everyone,

I have seven courses completed in the MS ITM, and I just wanted to post about my experience. Obviously, courses at WGU do change, currently, it has eight courses based on projects and two classes with exams. CAPM cert has been replaced by a WGU exam (thank god). My main takeaways is, it is acceleration friendly and more of a check-in a box degree. 

The Projects
I find the projects easy; you can accelerate this degree for sure and be done in 6 months. The projects are always around you as an IT director; how would you approach this situation, make a plan, strategies, etc. If you have experience in IT or software engineering, keep to the rubric and you will run circles around the evaluators, and that is one downside of this; most of the time, you don't have to go very deep to get a passing grade.

The exams 
The exams are challenging, but again, if you have experience in IT you will be fine. However, if you are not a business major and don't have IT experience, you find the exams unforgiving; my mentor told me many of those people retake the exams quite a few times. The issue is the breadth of content to absorb, it's just too large, and without experience, you cannot effectively answer situation-based questions.

WGU and Canada
At the time of this writing, the WGU policy for Canadians is weird, always has been, I guess; you can join the school of IT, but not the school of business. The reason being the professional business accreditation and too many Canadian not completing the programs. Depending on your counsellor, your mileage may vary; it still requires some sort of exemption.