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To clarify for anyone who hasn't seen the previous posts, this is about getting an MBA with a different concentration, not the Project Mgmt or Healthcare Mgmt.

I'm interested in this, but I'm not sure if this costs $12K or not? I think the capstone makes a big difference in the time and cost. Because I guess they won't allow me to complete the capstone when I have uncompleted courses left. Are you assuming you could?

Ideal scenario (?): 

In my first free term, I complete everything except the 9 credits and the capstone, or close to it. (I have prior knowledge.) 

Next, take 9 credits in a term (not competency, so much slower) for $8795. If they would allow 9 graduate credits at once. I see that they run some of their programs on a quarter basis and others on a semester term. (Personally I'd also have to wait for my my other school's term to end.)

Finally, taking the capstone the following term. Capstone would be over $3000 by itself in the term, right? Once the tech fee is added. This is a lot!

Edit: I asked earlier if we need to take courses in a certain order, and I was told no. But I'm not sure how they treat the capstone. I know at WGU they won't let you begin the capstone if you are near the end of the term.

Initially I ran this by Justin, the enrollment advisor, with the scenario of doing the main healthcare management then switching to the social entrepreneurship under the regular track. The trick he told me is that once you switch to a regular learning track Walden won't let you switch back to competency-based. 

So then I ran the scenario passed Justin to see if I could totally complete the MBA Healthcare Management then switch over and do the social entrepreneurship too. He said "Yes" and that it would only require 3-4 additional classes depending on if I would need another capstone course... which he would let me know about this coming week. That is when I went to check the capstone course codes and saw that they were the exact same for both the healthcare management and social entrepreneurship tracks. I can't see them forcing students to repeat the exact same class they have already taken at that school.

I think the trick though would be to take the capstone while still on the competency based MBA track because it will make a huge difference to the price. If you complete the competency based track and then just add the 3 social entrepreneurship courses it looks like the additional cost will be $8,795, whereas if a person starts on the healthcare administration track including the concentration courses and then switches to the traditional course-based social entrepreneurship track where they finish the capstone the cost would be $11,660. Again, Justin hasn't confirmed that a person can take the capstone in the competency based without having to repeat it in the course-based track, but I can't see any reason why someone wouldn't be able to nor why Walden would make someone repeat a course they have recently taken through Walden. I did the honest thing and asked about this though, so if I don't get an answer I am just going to forge ahead completing the capstone in the competency-based track and then add on the social entrepreneurship concentration and plead my case if Walden balks at me. I am usually good at making a solid case.

I'm likely to switch to an MBA if that's true. Is it confirmed that you can get two different MBAs from them. 

They still don't have me enrolled, and it's been 48 hours.

Given how much I talked to Justin, the enrollment advisor, about doing both the healthcare administration and the social entrepreneurship tracks together, I think he would have told me if it weren't a possibility.