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I would not waste your time or money. After $10K I have nothing to show for it, and it’s not for lack of effort. I busted my butt in every single class, like most other people. I work a full time job, try to maintain a normal life, and study as much as possible. 1 class kept me from getting my degree, 1. I attempted to take the exam 3 times, and it didn’t matter if it would’ve been an open book exam, the material never matched what I was studying. The PA was zero help and didn’t even line up slightly... Read More close. I would open the exam and it was like I had never seen the content before. The fact the class had a 3rd attempt exam pass study plan should have said all I needed to know. And well, here I am today, $10K less, and nothing to show for it. What a waste of a year. Mentor, worthless. CI, well I can’t say too much, all they did was provide the study plan, which never lined up to the exam. I just feel like I got cheated and robbed at the same time. Literally busted my butt for nothing and don’t even expect them to care, they have your money, they don’t care!! If I had to give advice, I’d say pick another school!!!!

I was accepted and started my first class on the 15th of the month before my start date. Being allowed to start early was a positive thing with this school. The customer care was really helpful. I dropped the program not long after starting and before my start date. This is my reasoning: There were 4 smaller assignments and 2 large detailed assignment. The only resources provided were 2 small articles giving an overview healthcare innovations (machines and monitoring techniques) and STIs, a 30-page... Read More document written by the school, and a literature review. All of these documents were outdated, and the document written by the school have horrible flow, had many grammar and spelling mistakes, and overall not helpful. The literature review was biased towards the authors previous writings. All of the documents were extremely outdated. THE ONLY RESOURCES PROVIDED FOR AN ENTIRE CLASS COVERING 6 ASSIGNMENTS WERE 4 OUTDATED DOCUMENTS!! That was a waste. I read all of the documents and looked over the assignments, and I realized the material was not sufficient and the assignments were busy work made to look involved and scholarly. Cheap tuition apparently equals cheap resources.

I did a lot of research before choosing Western Governors University. The many positives outweigh the cons by far. Here is just a few. The pros: 1). It's accredited 2). Available online, so very convenient for the many of us who work full time 3). One of the least expensive graduate programs out there The cons: 1). For those who need a classroom experience, the online approach isn't the way to go. They assign a "mentor" with weekly calls to keep you motivated but you still have to keep yourself motivated.... Read More 2). They don't grade on the typical "A","B","C","D","F" system. It's a Pass / fail system. Pass = "B". So probably not for those trying to transfer to Harvard, Yale or Stanford. 3). I will say, since it had been awhile since I had been back in school, just being back on the computer felt very foreign to me. So for those like me going back to school after many years may need to touch up on their "compute skills", otherwise that's a whole other frustrating topic!