BS Computer Science

[sanantone]

I don't see Calc 1 & 2 on your list.

I would suggest you look at the BA in CS at TESU, and the IT and IT software development tracks at WGU. I'm not a developer/programer, but I know a Computer Science degree is more important in that specialty then it is in Server/Infrastructure Engineering and in Info Sec.

For the BACS at TESU, it looks like you would have a good amount of the Gen Ed requirements covered and could use free and cheap alternate credit requirements to finish them off cheap and quickly. For the AOS, assuming you left of the Calc classes, it looks like you completed the general AOS requirements. You need 12 UL AOS electives. 3 can come from DSST MIS and 3 more from DSST Cybersecurity. One of the TEEX courses come in to AOS as an electives, but even if it is UL it is only 2 credits, so you end up taking another course to fill in. You would then need 6 more UL credits. Those would need to be from TESU or another 4 year school. they need to be CS (abbreviated COS at TESU) or CIS. CMP classes, such as the Network TECEP, will not count towards the BACS AOS. Some LL can be used in the AOS of study. Some of your current credits may go there. Programming at Straighterline may be an option depending on how your other courses transfer. Not sure if Software Engineering at Saylor is transferring as LL or UL. PLA may also be an option. Look at davewill's signature for more info. Capstone will need to be taken at TESU.

WGU will evaluate your credits, but once you start the program, you can not transfer in outside credit. Enroll, get the eval, and then take some more and get them transferred in and add them to the eval.


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Also, WGU is becoming quite well-known as an online, extremely non-traditional school, which is not always a good thing. I don't like bring up the school with college instructors because they usually know someone who was a mentor at WGU and had mostly bad things to say.

Do they not like it because of the perceived low quality and issues with how people accelerate through the competency based model or is t because WGU is disruptor and threatening the current paradigm of higher education?

From what I've heard, they think the students are of low quality, and they aren't getting any instruction.

WGU is just a check-the-box school just like most of the other schools we talk about here. It shouldn't be presented as anything more than that, but it has by at least one person. It's misleading. WGU is not going to impress anyone; it simply meets degree requirements.

[ajs1976]

Sanantone - thanks for the reply.  I have more thoughts, but i'm going to stop, so that I don't continue to derail the OPs thread.

[sanantone]

Sanantone - thanks for the reply.  I have more thoughts, but i'm going to stop, so that I don't continue to derail the OPs thread.

You can start a new thread or send me a PM.

[bollwegfam]

Thanks. I took Calc 1 and 2 w distance learning at North Dakota University and mistakenly left them off my list. After seeing the advice, I think I will start with the DSST MIS and Cyber security since that works for all: WGU Software Development, Fort Hayes State University - Computer Science and Thomas Edison State University - BA Computer Science. I have 4 D's from a traditional university, do I have any hope for these to transfer to one (or all) of these schools?

[dfrecore]

Thanks. I took Calc 1 and 2 w distance learning at North Dakota University and mistakenly left them off my list. After seeing the advice, I think I will start with the DSST MIS and Cyber security since that works for all: WGU Software Development, Fort Hayes State University - Computer Science and Thomas Edison State University - BA Computer Science. I have 4 D's from a traditional university, do I have any hope for these to transfer to one (or all) of these schools?

TESU will take D's, as long as the courses aren't in your AOS (major) or in English Comp I & II. Which courses did you get D's in?

[txnicole]

Another thing to wonder about is when you say you're looking for a new job with a higher salary, are you thinking in terms of programming or management?

Tech is my industry, and I know quite a few people (myself included) who have struggled to find other tech people who also have good management skills and can translate 'tech speak' between business people and computer people.

If moving into management is what you are looking at, you might think about a business degree with an IT concentration.