 how to get a computer science degree in six months at WGU, which is Western Governors University. That is gonna be the topic of today's video. It is a school that I often recommend to my coaching and consulting clients. It's not for everybody and I made a video on whether it's for you or not. You can definitely check that out. And another thing that I talk a lot about on this channel is computer science degrees because computer science is a phenomenal degree to get. So you can combine these two things together and you can get a computer science degree in six months or less at WGU. And I know that that sounds like an outlandish claim, probably sounds like really scammy, like it's some kind of for-profit, you know, useless piece of paper, but it's actually not. What makes you so sure? You can get a legitimate computer science degree in a very short amount of time at WGU in extreme cases, even less than six months. And I'm gonna show you exactly how you can do that in this video. This is stuff that before now I have only shared with my college 101 course and consulting clients. So if you're watching this, you are getting a lot of free value. So I would definitely pay attention and watch it to the very end. Because if you're planning on getting a computer science degree, watching this video might save you $60,000 and over three years of your life. So if you appreciate me making videos like this, go ahead and show it by gently tapping that like button. Let's see if we can get to a thousand likes and let's jump right into it. All right, so I've gone over what WGU is and basically how it works in other videos. So I'm not gonna go into detail on that. But basically what you're gonna be doing, the strategy that we're gonna be using here is essentially a strategy that I learned from my good friend, Josh Matacor. He's basically the king of WGU. He's gotten like three different degrees there. And one of the degrees that he got was less than six months. He actually did it in two months and that was a computer science degree. So he was only enrolled in WGU for two months to get his computer science degree. And then what he did before that is he pre-gamed it. Now what do I mean by pre-gaming? That means that he got all of the necessary certifications and classes that he was gonna transfer into WGU from third party sources. And specifically he used study.com. But we'll get to that in the moment. The first thing you wanna do is you want to contact WGU and transfer in your existing credits. So any classes that you took already, let's say you took classes at community college or university or something like that. Let's say you also have certifications or maybe you have a lot of work experience. All of these things can actually transfer in to WGU in many cases. They are incredibly generous about the classes that they allow to be transferred in. So you'll go ahead, get a hold of a WGU counselor. You'll tell them what your existing experience is. You'll send them your transcript and they will send you back a document. And this document is basically gonna be like a degree plan that tells you which classes you still need to take at WGU in order to graduate with your degree. And I'm gonna go over an example of what this would look like a little bit later in the video. Now don't enroll in WGU at this point, okay? You wanna go on to step two, which is for you to use third party companies in order to test out of a bunch of these classes. So typically bachelor's degrees require about 40 classes overall. And using the methods I'm gonna show you, you can very comfortably, even if you're doing it part time, test out of one class per week. Now there's 52 weeks in a year and there's 40 classes overall that you have to take and a tremendous amount of them, sometimes over half of them, you can test out of withstudy.com. And the great thing about using these alternative methods is you don't have to buy a textbook or required quizzes or sit through boring classes or do boring projects. You can do it all at your own pace. And many of my consulting clients will tell me that it only takes about one day to pass many of these classes. Now, when I was working with my consulting clients in the past, one of the most common problems I saw them having is they have a lot of trouble figuring out which classes transfer in. It's just very confusing. WDU does do a great job, but they're not gonna hold your hand with this because again, at the end of the day, they're making less money when they allow you to transfer stuff in. So they're not gonna make it easy for you. So what we did is we put together a guide that shows the exact certifications that transfer into different classes and the exactstudy.com classes as well as straighter line or Sophia, ifstudy.com doesn't have the classes that transfer in as well. And this is gonna be like a living breathing guide that we are gonna update as things change because a lot of the times these websites will add new classes. So I'm gonna jump into that spreadsheet really quickly. So we're gonna switch to the screen. All right, so this is the spreadsheet that's probably gonna pop up if you click the link down in the description below. We're thinking about putting this on a website just so it's even more useful. But yeah, it's gonna look something like this if you click the link down in the description or the pinned comment. And as you can see, we're mapping out pretty much every single class at WGU and we show the amount of certs that you can transfer in that's certifications or certificates and then also the number ofstudy.com transfers. So as you can see, computer science has 25 different classes that you can transfer in as well as two certs. Network operations and security is even better, 23 different classes and eight certs. And you can actually just click on computer science and then click on this and it will bring you to the tab that shows all of the classes that transfer in for computer science. You can scroll down and see all of it. And if you ever wanna go back home, you can just click back home. Boom, it brings you back. Now, if you look on the side here, you'll see what type of class it is. So all of the ones in green are general education classes, all the ones in yellow are core and then the ones in red are program specific. And then you can also see which certifications transfer in. Now, there's some types of degrees that have a ton of certs. A lot of the different technology ones do. And then some of them don't really have that many certs or none at all. But as you can see, there are two different certifications that you can transfer in that cover these classes at WGU. Now, we actually only put the recommended classes that WGU wants you to transfer in just because it just makes the process a lot more smooth if you take the recommended classes. We also put the course ID on the left and the study.com class ID as well, which is 0.057. The course ID for English Composition One would be C455. And then to make it even easier, if you click on that link, it's going to bring you directly to the study.com class. So this is the study.com class right here, English 104, College Composition One. It's much cheaper than college, of course, but it does have a cost. If you use the code Shanehummus, you're gonna get 30% off for your first three months. So I highly recommend doing it and it would help the channel out. So I would appreciate that because we did work very hard on this. And one other thing I wanted to mention is we primarily put study.com on there because we think it's the best, but sometimes study.com doesn't have the class. So in those cases, we include Sophia or Straighterline. And in the future, if study.com has a class or if Sophia or Straighterline have a class that study.com doesn't offer, we will be updating that and we'll try to keep the link updated. So if you click on it now, it might be different than the one later. So just keep that in mind. For instance, when Josh got his computer science degree, I believe he told me he did take calculus using Straighterline, but now study.com offers it. Now, after you finish doing this process, what you wanna do is transfer it in to WGU. So you would tell your counselor which classes you took, you would transfer those in and then they would send you another sheetback that tells you how many classes you have left. And at this point, you would move on to step three. And that is you want to pre-study the classes that you have left. So we're not enrolling in WGU yet, okay? Still not enrolling. Once you get that list of classes that you have left, which if you've taken a lot of classes, it's probably gonna be a pretty short list, you wanna start pre-studying them before you even enroll in WGU. And the reason you wanna do this is because you wanna be able to finish those classes as fast as possible once you enroll so that you only have to pay for maybe one or two terms at WGU. Now, there are many different ways that you can study for this stuff and it really depends on the classes you take and all kinds of stuff like that. There's so many different sources that you can use online to study for different computer science related stuff. But some of the ones I've heard are really good, is a free code camp, that one is obviously free. The Oden Project, I think that one's free as well. Khan Academy is phenomenal for classes like Calculus, for instance, that one is free. Code with Mosh I've heard is really good for coding related stuff. And Udemy is good as well. Now, those last two options do cost some money, but they're relatively cheap. Now, if you're a textbook type of person, you can order a textbook from a few years ago if it's like Calculus or something like that for relatively cheap, something like $10 to $15. And there's lots of old textbooks that are just fine. You definitely don't have to order one from this like brand new or anything like that. Just order one from a few years ago that's like 10 or 15 bucks. Then once you've completed this process of pre-study and you're ready to basically take these classes, whiz through them and pass the test as fast as possible, this is the part where you would contact your counselor and tell them that you want to enroll. And this is where we're gonna move on to step four which is complete the remaining classes as fast as possible. Now, with the classes that are left, you can really knock them out super fast if you've done a good job pre-studying. So for instance, Josh was able to knock out all of the classes in two months once he enrolled in WGU. And keep in mind, I believe he was working full-time while he was doing this as well, right? So if he's able to do it while he's working full-time and he has a YouTube channel and he has a life, you could probably do this relatively easily. Now, when it comes to different strategies to pass the classes that you have to take at WGU, I would look at the WGU subreddit because they typically have really good strategies to pass those classes as fast and efficiently as possible. Also, make sure to take advantage of the course instructors at WGU. If you're having any difficulty with the classes, they can definitely help you out. All right, so the overall strategy summary is step one, transfer in your existing credits if you have them. Step two, pre-game the courses using study.com, straighter line or Sophia. Step three, pre-study the remaining courses. And then step four, enroll and complete the remaining classes as fast as possible. Hey guys, so I'm just gonna quickly show you exactly what I mean and how you can do this strategy. So step one, you would make sure to look at the spreadsheet because it's just gonna make everything really easy for you and you would go ahead and just like transfer in the existing classes you've already taken. So I kind of just put it on the tabs. This is just an example. And I basically just crossed out the classes that you might have already taken. So let's say you went to a community college for one semester, you didn't really like it, but you passed some classes, right? So you passed like an English class, you passed a communications class, an art class, and you passed a math class. So you would transfer those into WGU and that's why you see them crossed out. Let's say you also took an IT certification, the ITIL, because you thought maybe you wanna go into IT but you decided you wanna do computer science instead, but you took the certification so you might as well transfer that in as well. So before you even started at WGU, you've already got five classes out of the way. Then you would get that paperback from the counselor which shows you which classes you have to take next and it would look pretty much exactly like this spreadsheet. So this spreadsheet is basically just a cheat code. You don't even have to wait for them. So next you would test out of all of the classes that you can take at study.com, straighter line or Sophia. And I put those in red and then I cross them out just to illustrate which ones you can do that with. So if you look down here, it is a significant amount of the classes. And you also decided to get your CompTIA project plus certification as well so you were able to transfer that in too. And after taking all those classes from study.com and just deleting all of the ones that you don't have to take anymore, this is what the remaining classes would look like, right? So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. You only have nine classes left that you have to take. Then you would go ahead and pre-game these classes. So you'd go ahead and pre-study these classes so that when you enroll in WGU, you can knock them out as quickly as possible. And again, if you email your counselor and look at the WGU subreddit, you're gonna have a really good idea of what you need to learn in order to pre-game these classes. And then once you've studied them, you'd go ahead and enroll in WGU and knock these out as quickly as possible. And you can probably do it in one term, which is like six months, maybe two terms at the most. And in extreme cases, if you really take this stuff seriously, you can do it in something like two months just like Josh did. So the first part of the process might take you three months. And the second part of the process, if you do it really quickly, would take you another two months. So you could actually get an entire degree in six months. Now, realistically, most people, they're probably not gonna do it that fast, but it's very realistic to finish a degree in less than two years. And in some cases, even less than a year. All right, so definitely check that spreadsheet out. Josh Matacor and I worked really hard on mapping all the different degrees out. So take a look at that. Also check out Josh's channel because he's basically the king of WGU. And check out my other video right here because I made it just for you. And I think it's gonna be great if you are interested in this one and you made it to the end.