Tuition Reimbursement for Competency-Based Programs

[sanantone]

At my company, HR is used to schools that don't charge by the credit hour. For matriculated students, the local state university charges a set tuition for 0-6 credits and a different set tuition for 6.1+ credits. Another local university system charges one set tuition for full-time study. So there is no such thing as cost per credit hour unless you go through Open University or UC Extension. If I decided to study at WGU, i would enroll for the minimum number of courses that WGU allows. I'll add the other courses later. I do the same thing with the local state university. I have to repay if I don't finish a class, so I will submit the minimum number of classes. At the end, I turn in grades with the classes in the original request highlighted. They won't care if there are extra grades as long as the original courses have been passed.

For my company, I don't plan to tell them anything about competency based programs. In other words, I'm going to play dumb.

You should ask this on the WGU reddit. There is way more activity about WGU there and I think you can get practical advice from folks who have successfully used tuition reimbursement for WGU.

This might work. I could tell them I'm enrolling in two courses at $240 per quarter hour. Capella's graduate psychology courses are five quarter hours each.