WGU Full Guide to Acceleration - Earn a Degree in 6 Months!
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Thinking about attending WGU (Western Governors University) or currently attending WGU? Is completing a degree fast what drew you to WGU and curious how to accelerate? See the success stories on graduating with a full accredited, respected, non-profit, Bachelor Degree in 6 to 12 Months? It is completely possible! Watch the video and follow these simple basic tricks:
1) Do not be scared to take the OA (Objective Assessment).
- Study the Practice Assessment. The question, the answers, the category of the question.
- Go on WGU Facebook Groups, Reddit, and Course Chatter within the Course. See what resources were the most helpful (whether it was the cohorts, reading, or some random person on youtube). Then, do that.
- Aim for 2 days per OA on easier courses like Critical Thinking. Aim 4-8 days for normal difficulty classes in your major. The Top 4-5 hardest courses, spend longer on. Two weeks or less. Although there are some hair pullers at WGU that might cost you a month of your time: Discrete Math II (Computer Science degree), Intermediate Accounting II (Accounting degree), and others. Account for time accordingly.
2) Do not over-write for the Performance Assessments.
- This is the biggest mistake people make at WGU!! Write the minimum for the rubric and turn it in! No Performance Class should take you more than 2 days.. 3 days if you're semi-busy, and 4 days if you're really busy. Worst case scenario is they send it back to you and you have to correct and add some things. For your capstone, take your time on that one. But even that, you're probably over-writing.
3) ACE Credits!!!!
You can transfer in 90 ACE Credits. These are courses you can take at places like Study.com, StraighterLine, and Sophia. 2 day courses that you can absolutely blaze through! You'll have to spend some money out-of-pocket but it almost ensures you will complete your WGU degree in 1-2 terms. I highly recommend ACE Credits.
majormash.com
Major Mash is an index website that provides information on ACE Credits (Study.com, Sophia, StraighterLine) and schools that accept their credits such as Western Governors University. It has a variety of spreadsheets which shows which ACE Credit Courses will transfer into that degree program. See which courses you need for your major and track your progress easily!
WGU Transfer Spreadsheets:
Computer Science (WGU): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Software Engineering (WGU):
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Cybersecurity (WGU):
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
For full list of WGU Spreadsheets, check out my website.
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1) What WGU degree are you taking?
2) What is your planned career path?
3) Do you want my input on anything? Courses, degrees, career paths, etc.
Feel free to engage with me!
What's the website major ? .com?
I just finished a BS in IT in less than 5 months. 22 classes or 78 credits since January. Just coming in to say this is legit and a couple of notes. I failed 1 OA in my degree plan CI tried to send me to zybook purgatory to complete all course material to 90%. I pushed back and got it cut back to something more reasonable as a give and take with them.
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I am finishing my Bachelor's in Elementary Education with SpEd liscensure. I want to finish by early next year what's your idea schedule
Starting my MS in Digital Marketing in August. Hoping to move into a marketing role at my current employer and work my way up in that area of the organization. Any tips you may have or insight on that WGU program would be appreciated!
I just completed my Master's in ONE MONTH.... 10 HOURS PER DAY, I took off one month from work and KNOCKED IT OUT !!!
That is amazing! Congratulations to you!
Congrats!
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 can you please share more about how you did it in one month
Which masters program is it?
Sorry to be a killjoy, but I really doubt this could even happen. Most are at least 10 classes....you finished one class every three days at the graduate level?? I sincerely doubt this is real.
Thanks for your advice and guidance Alex, it has been helpful!
Great information! I started the Business Administration-Marketing Program last month and have already completed 5 classes looking to speed it up this month.
Seem like a content creator yourself, we’ll have to collab one of these days
Hi Alex. Thanks so much for your tips. I’m looking forward to attending WGU for their Psy (Bachelor’s) degree. With the information you provided, I will be done with the degree a lot quicker which is what I want!
this is awesome to hear. I didnt realize how quickly this could be done. I start my accounting degree on april 1st and outside of my full time job i dont really have any commitments so i was kinda curious if i focus hard how quickly i could finish and this video was awesome to see. Hopefully i can crank through this degree in 1 or 2 terms. It would be kinda funny and cool to be able to do the in person graduation they have in my town at the end of the year lol
You can do it! It’s all time management and nothing else.
❤ great advice!!! I was scared of OA then i took them and passed on first attempt. 😊 im already 9 classes to go in my degree. ❤ I was so scared to fail on PA until my Mentor said just turn it bc i was overthinking it . 😂 only 2 classes i had the PA come back and it was like 2 sections.
Nice!! What program?
Hi everyone,
I'm 34 years old and planning to pursue a BA in Business Management at WGU. Since high school, I've been terrible at math and I'm struggling to improve. To prepare, I've been taking free online courses in college algebra and a combined statistics and probabilities course. However, I'm unsure if this is the best strategy.
For those who have completed their BA at WGU, especially if you struggled with math, do you have any advice on how to effectively prepare? Is there a more efficient way to tackle this? My goal is to complete the degree within a year. Any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
So really, for the supply chain and management, all you need is the cohorts by the guy? Can anybody vouch
When you say a week per OA class (or 10 days if going slightly slower) how many hours/day are you expecting? I'm going to have a large block of time coming up where I could probably put 10 hours/day into WGU for a couple of months. Curious about how many classes I can expect to knock out
10 hours a day you should be able to fly by. Easier classes two days, harder ones five days.
@@alexsheppe thank you so much
Very informative and inspiring video!
Is WGU
More hack able then
TESU or UMPI?
WGU is the most hackable school. TESU is very hackable if you have 24 college credits somewhere and 90 ACE Credits. WGU can actually be done in 1-2 terms without ACE Credits. And with 70-90 ACE Credits, 1-2 terms is almost a certainty.
@@alexsheppe
Awesome!
Thank you, Alex!
Does WGU accept SOPHIA credits?
@midnite1235 Yes
Hi Alex, I am going into the Bachelor's cybersecurity degree with no transfer credits, and I plan to spend 5-8 hours a day on it, maybe more to complete the program in 1-2 terms. I wanted to know your input on the order in which I should take the classes. I wanted to knock out the gen ed's quickly so I can just focus on the technical stuff, but my program mentor said that some people get burnt out that way.
You’re in control of the order of your classes, do what you want and don’t be influenced by your mentor.
@@alexsheppe So I just had my second meeting with her and she basically just straight up told me she won’t do that because they strongly advise against changing the degree plan already there and taking the general education credits first. I’m thinking about getting a new program mentor but I dont know. She seems limiting and wont let me do my degree how I want to. Thanks for responding and reassuring me Alex. I really appreciate that.
@aaliyahahmed3360 Push back hard enough and they will let you do what you want. But the order may not be that big of a deal. How come you don’t wanna do ACE Credits, are you getting the degree for free?
Alex, I have a question bro I have an associate degree in computer science and have 4 years experience as a c# software developer and I wanted to ask if it's a good idea for me to take software engineering degree.
Do it if you need it to land a job as a lot of them require Bachelor’s these days. Your associate’s will already get rid of almost half the degree
In fact you can choose the C# route so your knowledge will work to your advantage
Great video! Two questions: How long do you expect it to take to finish the ace transferable credits before needing to start the wgu courses? Trying to plan my start date. And how long each day do you suggest we devote to the acceleration hack to do it in under a year?
What’s your planned degree?
@@alexsheppe Bachelors in comp sci
ACE Credits will probably take four months if you do all the sites at the same time. Probably 5 to 5 1/2 months if you do them separately. Just my IMO, still need a lot of free time. Then WGU will take 1-2 terms if you transfer in 75+ credits. 1 Term in the C.S. program is doable, but IT Foundations and IT Applications could take a month each if you don’t transfer in CompTIA A+.
Actually, scratch that, forgot WGU got rid of those two courses in their Comp Sci program a long time ago. They are in the IT, Cyber, and Cloud degrees.
@@alexsheppe is there a reason you prefer SDC over Sophia in some of your transfer guides for WGU? Just genuinely curious as I’m about to start
What is Dr. Haywood’s channel
Just type in Dr Haywood
I attended umpi and was completely unsatisfied with their module. You have to complete milestones and assignments before you can access the final. Also, I'm not in favor of all the writing because I do a lot of writing for my job. I want a degree fast but the choices are limited at wgu. I want to excel my career and a bachelor's degree is necessary. Which degree would you recommend between education or the psychology degree? More importantly which would be the easiest to obtain? At this point i need a degree and these are the only two that I would have interest in. Especially since they dont offer criminal justice as of yet.
I think the psychology one would be easier considering the education ones have licenses you need to obtain.
@@alexsheppe thanks for your input. I'm motivated to get this degree done now more than ever.
Glad to hear it!
Alex, does WGU accept Google IT Support certificate credits ?
Not to my knowledge but still a great cert.
Yes they do
Can you do double majors at WGU?
Unfortunately no.
1) none yet, but hoping to
2) I’d like to either become a MD and Scientist or just to become a Scientist
3)I’ve heard WGU graduates you with a 3.0 when you accelerate, is this true?
How can I accelerate my medical and scientific path when those institutions typically want more prestigious credentials?
If you want to be a Medical Doctor, WGU probably isn’t the correct program. You’ll need a GPA much higher than 3.0.
Do they teach how to spell accelerate?
Didn’t even notice this was misspelt… will have my thumbnail guy fix it asap. As you can see, it has been correct in the title the entire time.
@@alexsheppe I know, I saw it was only inside the thumbnail 😀
Great advice! 🫡
I just completed my Master's in ONE MONTH.... 10 HOURS PER DAY, I took off one month from work and KNOCKED IT OUT !!!
Congrats!! MBA?
What MBA did you receive?