How to Earn a Degree in 6 Months at WGU 

Really?

Excellent work!! 💪🏼

What is Sophia?

Congrats on finishing! 🥳

Thanks, MSITM from WGU is next. I have about a year of IT experience. The certifications in the IT degrees are what makes them more difficult to finish fast. CS doesn't necessarily have a lot of them but it is still hard.@@CollegeHacked

did you have previous IT ecperience before the degree? If not did you get a job after graduating??

Several months, but nothing too big in terms of "formal experience." I have been into computers from a young age however, so take that as you will.@@Zzz-hr5mo

I am so lucky I snagged her, very glad to hear you loved working with her!

Funny enough, RU-vidrs really benefit more from collaboration than from competition, so it was an easy nod, and I'm glad he helped. :)

@@CollegeHackedwhere’s Josh Madakor shout out?!?! 🤔 I LIKE JOSH!!! He’s married tho😒

BA vs. BS gets a lot of talk time, but there’s not much of a difference. :) The former has a heavier focus on arts and humanities courses, the latter is more STEM focused. But when your major is already STEM it becomes even more inconsequential 😎 We would argue WGU is plenty reputable, but SNHU and TESU are good options as well.

@@CollegeHacked thank you for your response!!! I thought SNHU would lose tons of hackability points bc they don't accept Sophia anymore, so it's great they're still an option! I'm unfortunately an international student so WGU isn't a possibility 🥹

Nice! Thanks for the tidbit 🤓

Quick follow up: Do you have a link to where you found this, or did it just go through when you applied?

went through when I applied @@CollegeHacked

Hacking GURU alert! 🚨😎 Excellent!

The vast majority of people major in something completely different than the job(s) they end up having :) The bachelors degree is the important part, not the major, so don’t stress yourself too much! My top recommendation if you don’t know what you want to do yet is to experiment with different types of classes in a build your own major (usually called Liberal Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, or General Studies). That way you can use your college experience to do more poking around into industries you might be interested in. You can always go back for a grad degree or certificate later if you fall in love with something and it requires you to have additional education. :) Check out UMPIs YourPace Liberal Studies Management degree.

@@CollegeHacked thank you for taking the time to respond! I’m 22 and have been debating what to do for far too long I need to just choose a path and follow it! 🖤

Not tiers, just different accrediting bodies based on geography :) There are specific program accreditations though, like ACBSP for business majors.

We’ve had students report finishing a course in 4 hours, and we’ve also heard of students failing certain courses because they are difficult. So it seems like a mixed bag :)

Ok Thank you very much!

Luckily that’s exactly what we do in our consultations! Sign up for one today at collegehacked.com 😉

If you still have a permanent address in the US, should be possible.

Lol this is exactly what I'm planning

University of Maine at Presque Isle :)

@@CollegeHacked Great, thanks!

Absolutely!! Consider looking into common CLEP exams you can take now while your senior year subjects are still fresh in mind 😎 If you use Modern States prep courses (free online) they will pay for your CLEP exams 🥳

Every school notes it slightly differently on transcripts, but if your employer actually knew what they were looking for (most don’t, they just accept that a conferred regionally accredited degree is a degree) they could see the original source of the credit. There is typically a summary section for each school/platform you transferred in credits from. You shouldn’t have any problems though, just make sure if you’re using tuition reimbursement from your company that you don’t do anything shady in their eyes 😝

@@CollegeHacked thank you for the reply I appreciate it! You guys are amazing!

Yes, yes, and yes :) Though you may not get all your credit accepted if you have a lot of it, since their degrees don’t have free elective sections.

Haven’t heard this yet! Will look into it.

WGU

That’s what we do in consultations 😄

Hacking at the masters level looks a lot different, there’s no Sophia/Study at the grad level, so it’s mostly about picking a competency based program (which WGU is!).

Hypothetically, the caliber of the classes is the same. But in reality, one requires a proctored final exam and one is open book open notes exams. The cost is a factor, but there is undoubtedly a time difference as well. We think it’s ultimately up to priorities :) Nothing wrong with finishing it all at WGU!

CBE programs are pretty much either going to consist of proctored finals (WGU), or all papers/projects (Purdue Global and UMPI). So you’ll want to choose whichever is less painful for you ;)

​@@CollegeHacked😂 "less painful"... Wise advice here! I'm in the same boat.

Indeed!

@@CollegeHacked no way. This can't be true

@@hamza2038 That type of policy isn't standard at colleges, but it's not unheard of. It's a good way for schools to enforce some academic rigor in their courses. Especially if they allow a lot of hacking! :)

Is that also the case with WGU?@@CollegeHacked

That would be great!

Skip the wait, schedule a consultation 😉

@@CollegeHacked how much is a consultation?

@@MrOilmoney You can check out our current price here: www.collegehacked.com.

Tell them to post an official announcement! 😅

@@CollegeHacked lol, well they said they are waiting for a contract to be up or something like that

@@uneyedentified2017 Oh good! That’s pretty normal. Schools usually draw up multi-year agreements with these platforms and as the contract gets close to expiring they take another look at it to evaluate whether changes are needed. But so far we haven’t seen a big trend in schools reducing Sophia acceptance. Even the whole SNHU debacle recently turned out to be a false-positive 🙏🏼 I just called a couple different WGU locations and talked to advisors and they said they haven’t heard of any changes coming yet, so we’ll continue to cross our fingers and keep an ear to the ground!

@@CollegeHacked Well thats good, I had my initial call about a week ago and told him I would be taking Sophia classes. Towards the end of the conversation I said i'd get cracking on the Calculus 1 prereq (done now) and he said the only risk with 3rd parties is that they MIGHT stop taking the credits at some point. I don't know if this was a hint or what. I worked hard to finish the Calc course quickly and just finished Intro to IT so it made my heart sink a bit to see this comment.

@@JC-ss2sn The advisor is right, the school could choose to stop taking certain third parties, but if they are going to do that it’s virtually always between June-August and typically they make an announcement about it. At most schools you can avoid this problem by applying and locking yourself into a degree year during which the courses were accepted. Then even if they stop taking the credits for incoming students, they still take yours because you’re on a policy year that allows it. Of course that doesn’t work at WGU though, because you can’t enroll until all your hacking is done 😜 The rule of thumb for them is to do all your hacking very quickly, from August-May so the rules don’t potentially change in the middle of your hacking window.

UMPI

Indeed it does!

We hope so! But they haven’t indicated they have any plans to do that in the near future 💙

They do, but only Canada

Awesome!

3% of UoPeople students finish their degree in at least 4 years.. there are better schools 😉

@@CollegeHacked Thank you for the fast response. I'll reconsider my options then. I wanted something related to the healthcare industry since I imagine that's where jobs will continue to grow and I want to become a translator in the future when I master a second language. I imagine I can stay in the healthcare industry as a translator.

@@Butters-oj3bv That’s an excellent path! :) Check out Western Governors health degrees, or consider building your own major and mixing healthcare classes with linguistics.

It depends; UoP DOES now have a partnership with Sophia, so it is possible (as well as accepting CLEP & DSST).

UoP DOES now have a partnership with Sophia, (as well as still accepting CLEP & DSST), so it is possible to cutdown the time somewhat. One snag with them (out of many) is that it’s asynchronous 9-week classes w/ a 75% transfer limit (with their Masters programs, this limit is 18 credits to a 36 credit program) so if you top off a BS/BA degree with with 90 transfer credits, you can potentially finish the remaining 30 credits in as little as about 45 weeks- or about 10 1/2 months- if you commit to taking two classes per 9-week period, faster if you increase this to three or more per segment. Note that UoP has a larger-than-typical number complaints about the quality and professionalism of their adjunct professors as well as the fact that there is no way they are going to be able to exit pre-accreditation status with WASC until after their next pre-scheduled site visit in March of 2024 (TRANSLATION: All credit earned before successful WASC accreditation will still only transfer out as National rather than Regional credit, a potential killjoy for many Masters programs).

Disagree :)

@@CollegeHacked don’t care :) every as$hole has an opinion oh ya then why wont BYU, Univ of Utah, Utah St and even sorry Weber St, want nothing to fo with your WG 💩? It is because your school is $hit

Disagree, I graduated WGU in 7 months and immediately landed a consulting job at a bank. They just wanted me to have a degree in a related field.

No one cares about how long it takes for someone to get their degree. All that matters is that they received it from a reputable institution. Recruiters are more focused on skills and work experience.

Often times it’s actually a huge advantage, as it demonstrates out of the box thinking and resourcefulness. Particularly in situations where the degree being required has nothing to do with the job it’s required for (so the length of time it took to get it is irrelevant).

You realize you don’t need to tell them how long it took you to obtain your degree unless they ask? And if they do why would you want to work for someone who is questioning it anyway? All you need to tell them is that you graduated and what year

This is why you will NOT excel at anything. You may skate by, but that will be it. Employers want go getters, not the average worker. Better do some research and see how many people are in high paying jobs with a degree from WGU.