WGU - Western Governors University
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WGU has too many issues to ignore.
When I went through my Bachelor's course it was a haphazard mishmash of constantly changing goal posts. Many of the more advanced courses I failed and retook, and for good reason. They kept updating things which forced me to try to learn more and change to a new curriculum mid-class. It was awful. That is the kind of thing that shouldn't be allowed. Students should finish out their courses or be made aware of newer content to opt-in to not just forced into it mid-way through and expected to re-learn everything. For context this was the IT program and I am writing now because they have irk'd me a bit too much as an Alumni over the past few years. How? Let me tell you. Should you happen to decide to go there. Just remember the first paragraph and the changing goal posts in your curriculum. Add to that your 'mentor' will definitely try to help in getting you help.. but its not the same as if you are in a physical environment where someone can SHOW you or even where you have a friend in class that can explain something. That aside as an Alumni when you graduate lets go over some things. First: There is little to no job placement assistance. Good luck! I hope you picked a popular field in your area. Because you are on your own. Even my local tech college had job placement assistance programs to help people find their first jobs after graduation which actually starts the last year before graduating. Second: They pretty much didn't want anything to do with me after graduation. They had my money, They pushed me through. Thats all they cared about. I even tried to go back one time because I wanted a bachelors in another program while I, online being the only way to accomplish this because working full time I could only do it like that. They wouldn't return my emails though. So I gave up. Third: They give you a free Gmail to use. Now.. instead of migrating the account, or contacting you to get that done? They shut down all the storage to that acocunt after graduation. No notification, just out of the blue one day. I can't migrate my email the easy way through Gmail account migration because its 'theirs'. Fourth (Lastly): This is the last thing and the final thing that has me pissed about WGU. They are implementing MFA (like finally? after all these years?), but... and this is a big BUT.. they dont support common authenticator usage like Google Auth, Microsoft Auth, or any other auth the average person wants to use. In fact, they want you to use their own proprietary Authenticator only. There is an option for SMS, but that should be only for back up purposes in case your Auth app weren't working supposedly. Honestly, This is unacceptable to not support common FIDO and FIDO2 protocols for Authentication. Which quite literally everyone supports that uses Auth tokens for security.