Questions about WGU MBA

[Merlin]

For those who have Done WGUs MBA. How difficult is it? Is it doable to get it in the 6 month time phrame?

Those questions are hard to answer since everyone is different.

The difficulty depends on a lot of factors. This is a competency-based degree, so the biggest factor is how much prior knowledge you have of business administration subjects including accounting, economics, financial management, marketing, statistics, and general management & HR, plus whatever your MBA focus area is. If you've just completed a business administration degree, then the MBA is going to be a bit easier for you since it will cover many of the same topics, just focused less on the theory and more on application. Likewise, if you have experience in business management and/or HR, you'll see many familiar topics that will help you move through the material more quickly.

The timeline depends on prior knowledge, learning speed, and how much free time you have to study. Can it be done in a single 6-month term? Yes. We have a few people on this forum that have completed a master's degree at WGU in a single term, myself included. Was it easy? No... I doubt anyone would say that it was easy. Personally, I was putting 40-60 hours a week into it, and I came into the MBA program fresh out of my BSBA and with more than 20 years of business operations and IT management experience. Then again, I was also focused on getting exemplary in every subject, so I tend to overstudy.

As I've posted here before, this is not an easy degree. It may not be as painful as some more traditional degrees, but it is real graduate-level work. While there are some pretty straightforward courses, there are also a few that make your undergrad capstone course look easy. Nobody should go into this degree thinking they can complete it in a single term. The average student takes 4 terms to finish, though most accelerators do it in 2-3. Very few finish in a single term.

My recommendation is that if you think you've got a pretty good handle on the material going into this and you have at least 20-40 hours a week to invest in study, plan for 2-3 terms and hope to finish in 1 term. If you plan for 1 and then find it takes 2-3, you're not going to be happy.