 The WGU Healthcare Management Bachelor's Degree. In this video I'm going to be talking about how you can get this degree from WGU which is Western Governors University in as little as six months. And this video is probably going to save you like 10 to 20 hours of research and it might even end up saving you years of your time and tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm going to actually reveal to you the step-by-step process that I have used with my private consulting clients to save them years of time and tens of thousands of dollars. And I'm even going to reveal a cheat sheet that is going to make this entire process insanely easy. And this is something that I haven't revealed until recently when I got a bunch of questions asking me to do this for each individual degree at WGU. So I created this series to make the whole process insanely easy. Now one thing I will say is WGU is a great school but they are not the only school that does this accelerated process. There are other schools that are either competency-based universities like WGU or they allow you to accelerate through the degree in different ways. So I highly recommend you check out my video on whether WGU is worth it and I'll put that right here. But if you appreciate me giving you all this insane amount of value completely free this entire project took a ton of time go ahead gently tap that like button and let's get into it right now. Alright so step number one is you're going to want to go ahead and transfer in all of your existing classes and existing experience. Now this seems like a pretty obvious step but a lot of people actually mess up a little bit here because WGU accepts a lot more than you might think. So for instance they will sometimes accept military experience and work experience as credit. They also accept lots of different outside sources such as CLEP exams. If you've taken AP classes during high school or IB classes they'll accept that and of course if you've taken college classes and you've gotten college credit they will oftentimes accept that as well. So make sure you take your time on this step and look at everything that you've done and then send all of that into WGU and then once they have looked at it they're going to go ahead and send you a list of classes that you still have to take back. So there's lots of different reviews of people who are able to transfer in a ton of different classes online like this person who was able to transfer in 28 credits and it says yes all my transfer credits were pre-rec classes, English, math, history, sociology, etc. Now by the way you will not be enrolling in WGU until step number four. The counselor WGU may try to get you to enroll and I recommend personally not enrolling yet because this whole process is going to save you a ton of time, effort, and money right. It's going to make it easier, cheaper, and faster and the best way to do this is to not enroll until you absolutely have to at the very end in step four. So once you've gotten those list of classes back after you've transferred in your credits you're going to go ahead and move on to step number two which is you are going to take many of the remaining classes at third party companies right. So I call this the test out phase and you're basically going to be testing out of a bunch of different classes that you can transfer in to WGU using third party companies and these third party companies are study.com, sophia.org, and straighterline.com and I actually like them in that order so typically I like study.com the most then Sophia.org then straighterline and the reason you're going to be using these third party companies is because of the fact that very simply speaking they are faster, easier, and cheaper than if you took the same classes at WGU. So there are 40 total classes that you have to take in order to get this degree and many of these classes if you use these third party companies you can very easily test out of one per week and that's even if you have a full-time job a family and you're super busy. If you're not super busy then you can even test out of a lot of these classes one per day or in some cases even two per day. Now some people get very fancy with this process they'll like take three classes at you know study.com and four classes at sophia.org and another three classes at straighterline and you can definitely do that there's a lot of like strategies online but to be honest like a lot of those strategies change something that worked like three years ago doesn't necessarily work now so I just like to keep it simple and take all the classes you can at study.com since in my experience it's the one that's the most reliable it's pretty easy it's a really good user interface you actually learn things when you take classes there and it's also very easy to transfer in at the end of the day. My students have had the least amount of issues with study.com and the same thing has been reported from other people who teach this sort of thing such as Josh. So you use study.com you take the class you take the exam you test out of it you transfer it in to WGU and boom you are done with that class and by the way I will make this entire process super easy if you wait until the end of the video where I go through this step by step but if you don't want to wait until then I do have a cheat sheet which makes the whole process super easy I'll put that down in the description as well as the pinned comment below so definitely check that out. So once you have taken as many classes as you can at study.com and sophia.org you've transferred those in you're going to move on to the next step which is step three and that is you're going to pre-study the remaining classes. So you're going to have some classes that are left that you cannot transfer in and you have to take them at WGU but before you enroll in WGU you can go ahead and pre-study those classes and I highly recommend that you do this because remember the overall goal is for you to actually be enrolled in WGU for the shortest amount of time possible and the reason for that is because WGU makes you pay per term they make you pay somewhere around $3,500 per term and each term is six months and so if you can knock the entire degree out in one to two terms that is ideal and so you want to go ahead and pre-study these classes so you can get through them as fast as possible when you actually enroll at WGU. So there are two really good sources that are going to help you out a lot when it comes to pre-studying these classes the first one is the WGU subreddit now there is a main subreddit and people do share a lot of tips and tricks on there but typically there's also going to be a subreddit specific to your degree so make sure you look for that and find it and on that subreddit a lot of the time people will share tips and tricks on how to study for and pass these classes as fast as possible. The second resource which is really good is going to be the WGU Facebook groups and it's very similar to these subreddits people tend to share tips and tricks and their experiences on there on how to test out of these classes super fast and again this stuff does change stuff that might have worked three years ago doesn't necessarily work now so it's good to talk to people and stay up to date on it. There's also a ton of really good resources online of course you can look at WGU's curriculum to see what it's going to be all about you can look up stuff on YouTube a lot of the time there'll be good resources on there of course there's Khan Academy that can be great for a lot of different classes if you want to pay a little bit of money sometimes you to me will have some great classes that will cover the material really well and of course if you're a textbook type of person you can always just look up a textbook online or order one that's just a few years old for like 20 bucks then once you feel really confident about the remaining classes what you want to do is move on to step four which is you are finally going to enroll in WGU and knock those classes out as fast as you possibly can so this is where you would reach out to your enrollment counselor and finally say hey I'm ready to enroll and then you'd get enrolled as fast as you can and start knocking those classes out now a typical bachelor's degree in the United States of America takes about 5.1 years on average at Western Governor's University there is countless testimonials online of people finishing degrees in less than a year less than two years etc and of course it's going to depend on your situation if you are a very busy person you have a full-time job you got a family etc probably going to take you a little bit longer if you're not in a situation like that you can oftentimes test out of them even quicker so an extreme example of this is my good friend Josh Matacor we actually helped to create these spreadsheets together and he was able to complete a computer science degree in two months at WGU and the computer science degree is probably the most difficult degree that the school offers so if he can complete it in two months literally he was only enrolled in WGU for two months I think you can see why you know this strategy works so well now realistically if you're an extremely busy person you can still complete it in two years or less if you're less busy if you have more free time in many cases you can do the entire process in a year or less and sometimes as little as six months now when you're knocking these classes out especially for the more difficult ones like health care research and statistics as well as business simulation make sure you leverage the professors there a lot of the time people don't really talk to the professors that much and they can be extremely helpful they can tell you exactly what you need to do to study and then of course make sure you check the WGU subreddit and the facebook groups as well so to summarize the overall strategy here first step is you're going to transfer in your existing credits if you have them second step is you're going to pre-game courses using study.com straighterline.com and sophia.org third step is you're going to pre-study the remaining courses and the fourth step is you are going to complete the remaining classes as fast as you can so here is a testimonial from somebody who said that they finished the last 34 credits of the degree in a single term right so they were able to knock out 34 credits in one term and they were able to complete the entire degree in five terms even though they had a bunch of personal issues so that's about two and a half years they were able to complete the entire degree that's pretty good so now i'm going to go ahead and jump into the cheat sheet and i'm going to take you through step by step how you would do this entire process so i'm basically going to give you an example of what the entire process would look like all right so this is the cheat sheet for the business administration and health care management degree at wgu and i'll just go over it really quickly and by the way if you want to basically do the same exact process but you're on you can just go ahead and do file and make a copy the only problem with doing that is if i update this sheet in the future you will not see the updates on the copy so you'll have to check the original sheet but with that being said on the left side here you see the id and these are the id's for the classes at wgu then you see the course name right here in this column and again these are the course names at wgu then you see the amount of units and then you're going to see the study.com transfers so english 104 for instance would transfer in for english composition one so we just made this whole thing super easy you don't have to look it up it's just all mapped out and if you click right here it will take you to the wgu.com website you click right here it will take you to the exact study.com course and by the way if you want to save 30 off on your first three months using study.com you can use the code Shane Hummus they were nice enough to give me a discount code and if you use that code it will help the channel out a little bit so i would appreciate that so we're going to go through every single step step by step so step one of course is for you to transfer in existing classes so i made just a very simple example here but let's say that you took ap biology and ap economics during high school so you're able to transfer those in and then you also took communications math art and sociology in your one semester of community college let's say like you went to community college for one semester you decided it wasn't for you but you were able to complete those classes so you went ahead and transferred all of those and and of course you know the line going across is you know that symbolizes that you were able to transfer that class and and you don't have to worry about it anymore so then you would move on to phase two which is you would test out of the other classes that you can take at study.com so as you can see a significant amount of the classes you can actually test out of using study.com over half of them and so you would go ahead and do that and you'd test out of those classes and again the reason why you do that is quite simply because it's faster easier and cheaper to do it at study.com than it is to do it at wgu at this point you would have a certain amount of classes left it looks like one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen classes left total and you would want to go ahead and pre-study the remaining classes you would use the resources that I talked about earlier in the video to do that and once you feel confident about that you'd go ahead and enroll in wgu and you would knock out all of these classes as fast as you possibly can and your goal here is to try to knock them out in one to two terms and so as you can see if you do the entire process it could take you as little as less than a year and as little as less than six months actually enrolled in wgu so that's pretty awesome and then of course you'd move on to step five which is you would brag about it to all of your friends and family uh that you were able to you know get a bachelor's degree in one year and if you're really nice you'd move on to step six which is share this video with your friends and family so that they can benefit as well now one thing I just wanted to reiterate here is wgu is a phenomenal school it's a great option for a ton of people to reach out to me but it is not for everybody so for instance it is completely remote and some people have a lot of trouble focusing when they're doing their work completely remote so that is kind of a downside of wgu another thing about wgu is networking isn't necessarily going to be as easy because you're not spending time directly with other students and other people so you kind of have to put yourself out there a little bit more if you want to network so I did go over all the pros and cons of going to wgu in this video right here and I highly recommend that you check that out