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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Eddie Teach on April 24, 2011, 06:56:09 AM

Title: Western Governors University
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 24, 2011, 06:56:09 AM
Anyone have any experiences with this school, its students or its reputation that they'd like to share?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Western Governors University
Post by: MadImmortalMan on April 28, 2011, 04:31:51 PM
Several of my employees have used this school, and it's been very good. You can knock out a bunch of credits for very little money if you're motivated, apparently. Probably better for some fields than others I would say. FWIW, all the people I know who used it were in some sort of IT degree program. can't speak for the business or other programs. The actual classes are all with normal colleges (UCal  system, Utah, Oregon, NMState, etc) in a partnership arrangement.
Title: Re: Western Governors University
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2011, 05:22:45 PM
Have any of them tried transferring credits to other colleges? Their accreditation seems to be all well and good but I'm no expert in such matters. I've seen one complaint about their courses not transferring(couple people argued against this person) and a few about dealing with their financial aid office but mostly good stuff.
Title: Re: Western Governors University
Post by: MadImmortalMan on April 28, 2011, 05:29:04 PM
No, I don't know. The grading model is not standard so there might be issues. I had a ton of issues transferring credits from one major normal university to another because the first one was on quarters and the second was semesters. So I'd imagine similar issues would apply here.
Title: Re: Western Governors University
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 28, 2011, 05:38:18 PM
Alright, thanks for the feedback. :)