Competency-based education puts working IT professionals in the driver’s seat of their education.
Competency-based education (CBE) allows you to set the speed of your progress—no waiting for other class members to catch up or for a new semester to start.
Taking a course covering concepts you’ve been applying for years? Review the course material, take the assessment, and move on. Taking a course in a subject you’ve never tried? Maximize all available resources to ensure you’re comfortable with the material by the time you take the assessment.
Designed for professionals with tech talent.
You’ve worked in tech for years. Your experience, skill, and hard work have gotten you this far, but the next step requires something you don't have: your degree. We believe your experience should count for something. You deserve a bachelor’s degree program that will take into account all the know-how you’ve gained over the years, allowing you to move through courses as quickly as you can prove you've mastered the material. No waiting for other students or the end of the semester. No sitting through classes you could teach. Just a smart, direct path to the degree your career needs and the respect you deserve.
Efficient
Save time and money by focusing your efforts where they matter the most.
Your knowledge, experience, and drive to finish your degree are valuable. Put those qualities to work and master material more quickly, potentially graduating ahead of schedule.
Flexible
Learn on your own terms.
With all online courses and no set meeting times, you can study whenever and wherever works best for you. Earning a degree will take hard work, but you can fit your study around your existing commitments, not the other way around. While you will be required to maintain a base level of consistent progress through your program, WGU is designed to empower you to maximize your personal schedule by allowing you to build a study plan that fits into your life—not one that requires you to rearrange it.
Results
Know you’re learning real-world skills.
You will frequently find that what you learn in your courses can be directly applied to what you are doing at work—and your employer will notice, as well.
Finish courses by proving what you know, as soon as you’re ready.
With competency-based education at WGU, success is measured by actual learning, not class time. You advance by demonstrating that you've mastered the course subject matter—whether you learned it through your study at WGU or picked up that knowledge through years of work experience.
Your progress through a course is driven by you.
How quickly you learn
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The time you devote to studying
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How much previous knowledge you bring
Your experience pays at WGU.
Why start from square one when you could already be well on your way to a degree?
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