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I am just writing to warn people about the radically different admissions process the school uses, this is not a traditional University. They will not evaluate transcripts until you have received your degree and it is on the transcript. There is no way to evaluate the school and know that you will be accepted until you have already finished your previous Bachelors program long after you would have been admitted into any other traditional master's program. I had one counselor who didn't answer an... Read More email question for 40 days and I had to call and get a different counselor The first counselor told me I was qualified for a specific IT program based on my work experience, the second counselor said that actually an internal group had denied me for that program but the first counselor never bothered to tell me. I thought I was all lined up and ready to go and 40 days later I find out differently I don't qualify for the program. I know this is long but I have to mention a couple more things. I have three excellent letters of recommendation from prominent PhD leaders in the Utah area, but they are useless at Western Governors because they don't look at letters of recommendation. Further I've no people at Adobe and other high-profile companies that really have no opinion of some of the newer degrees at Western Governors so they don't really carry much weight. I was told by a pretty important person at Adobe and Lehi that simply getting a Microsoft Azure machine learning certification what count a lot more than the data mining program at Western Governors. Reading through reviews it sounds like some of the other programs like nursing are pretty good programs but just be aware this is not in any way a traditional University, does not have an academic focus., provides no opportunity to participate in research

I love how Western Governor's University is a program that utilizes the industry standards of certifications. I can go through school and learn all the facts and ideas behind the concepts used in the real world, but showing and proving I know and understand these things using industry standard certifications helps me during and after I graduate from my program. The class and the certification will help me land a job in my industry. The hard part of attending WGU is the fact that I have to be completely... Read More motivated because it solely relies on my individual work and drive to get the courses completed. I determine my schedule, and I determine my drive in pushing to finish the courses. This can be bad when you get in a "lull" from rough times at work, home, etc.