00:00today's video is going to be how you can
00:02get a data analytics degree from WGU in
00:06as little as six months WGU stands for
00:09Western Governors University and it is a
00:11university where you can accelerate your
00:13degree and that's because it is a
00:16competency-based model so in traditional
00:18universities your degree is going to
00:19take four years or in reality usually
00:22it's about 5.1 years on average with a
00:25competency-based model you are able to
00:27test out of classes based on your
00:29competency whereas at a traditional
00:31University you have to put the time in
00:33no matter what now up until I made this
00:35series of videos I actually only
00:37revealed what I'm going to reveal in
00:39this video to private Consulting clients
00:41that's how valuable the stuff I'm going
00:43to go over in this video is I'm
00:45basically going to walk you through step
00:46by step how you can get a highly
00:48valuable degree in as little as six
00:51months now this is a completely legit
00:52degree and if you have any apprehension
00:55about that I don't blame you it sounds
00:56too good to be true but I did an entire
00:58video on WGU with which I definitely
01:01think you should check out right there
01:02if you don't believe this or you think
01:04it's a scam or anything like that also
01:06at the time of recording this video I
01:07have not gotten a scent from WGU I wish
01:10they would sponsor me I'm a big fan of
01:12them but I don't think they do that and
01:14if they do it in the future that's
01:15awesome but at this time I have not
01:17gotten a cent from them so I'm
01:19recommending them purely because I think
01:21they are the best Competency Based
01:23University there are a couple other
01:24really good ones as well which I go over
01:26in that video so definitely check it out
01:28I also created a secret cheat sheet that
01:30makes it incredibly easy for you to do
01:32the process that I'm about to reveal to
01:34you so you can pull that cheat sheet up
01:36and look at it as you're going through
01:37this video so that being said if you
01:39appreciate me dropping all this insane
01:41amount of value which I used to charge a
01:43lot of money in order to reveal to
01:45people and I'm doing it all for free
01:46here on YouTube go ahead gently tap that
01:49like button and let's jump right into it
01:51alright so we're actually going to skip
01:52the first two steps that I would usually
01:53go over which is first choosing which
01:55college degree you want to get and then
01:58second choosing which accelerated or
02:00competency-based university you want to
02:02go to because there are some other good
02:03ones out there like tessu Excelsior
02:06Southern New Hampshire University
02:08Etc so definitely check that video out
02:10if you want to see some of the other
02:11ones so the first step assuming that you
02:13are going to WGU and you're getting this
02:14degree is you want to go ahead and get a
02:16hold of your transcript and transfer in
02:18all of your existing units now take your
02:21time on this step because you'd probably
02:22be surprised what things you can
02:24transfer in so for instance you can
02:26transfer in military experience career
02:29experience certificates and
02:30certifications and of course you can
02:32transfer an AP and IB classes as well as
02:35any classes that you might have taken
02:36for college already and there are even
02:38certain udemy classes that you can
02:39transfer in so definitely make sure you
02:41take your time on this part so yeah once
02:43you've transferred all of these previous
02:45units in you are going to get a list of
02:48classes that you still have to take from
02:50WGU from your counselor and at this
02:53point you would move on to step two
02:54which is you would take those remaining
02:56classes and you would start taking those
02:59classes not a WGU because you're not
03:01enrolled yet but actually at third party
03:03companies now I actually have a list of
03:05all the classes that you have to take
03:07it's basically a WGU cheat sheet I will
03:10put that down in the description as well
03:11as the pen comment below and the three
03:13main companies that offer the easiest
03:15best experience which pretty much
03:16everyone recommends are study.com
03:18straightyourline.com and sophia.com now
03:21in my experience as well as Josh
03:23maticore's experience study.com is the
03:25best one overall so that's the one we're
03:27going to focus on and Josh is basically
03:28like the king of WGU he helped me and my
03:31team put this cheat sheet together for
03:34basically every single curriculum at WGU
03:36and he himself graduated with a computer
03:38science degree in two months enrolled at
03:41WGU which I'm pretty sure that's a
03:43record that is absolutely nuts because
03:45computer science is probably the most
03:46difficult degree you can take at WGU so
03:49for a BS in data management and data
03:52analytics which is this degree there are
03:54about 39 courses overall now you can
03:57very comfortably test out of one class
03:59class per week using study.com
04:02sophia.org or straighterline.com this is
04:05even if you're extremely busy you work
04:06full time you have a family Etc many of
04:08the students that I've recommended this
04:10to have told me that they can test out
04:11of a Class A Day sometimes even multiple
04:13classes per day now you might be
04:15wondering if it's Competency Based why
04:16don't you just enroll in WGU and take
04:18the classes well that will be much more
04:21expensive and it will take longer it's
04:22much better for you to knock these
04:24classes out using a third-party company
04:26because it's cheaper and it's faster so
04:28for instance this person who posted on
04:30the WGU subreddit said that they started
04:32last month and they just hit 50 which
04:34means they knocked out about 50 percent
04:36of the classes now they didn't give any
04:37other information like how many classes
04:39they transferred in ETC but I would
04:41assume they probably transferred in some
04:43classes but this just goes to show how
04:45fast you can knock out a lot of these
04:47classes right 39 of them and he already
04:50knocked out like you know 19 to 20. so
04:52after you have knocked out all of those
04:54classes that you can using study.com
04:56studiarline.com sophia.org or you take
04:59these certifications as well which I put
05:01on the far right then you want to move
05:03on to the next step after you've
05:05transferred that into WGU of course
05:07which is you want to pre-study the
05:09remaining classes and again you are not
05:11enrolling in WGU yet the reason I
05:14emphasize this so much is because the
05:16counselors will probably be pushing for
05:18you to enroll it's in wgu's best
05:20interest that you enroll as soon as
05:22possible because they make more money
05:23but there are many different ways to
05:25pre-study the classes I highly highly
05:28recommend you check out the WGU
05:30subreddit and there's a main subreddit
05:32and then there's a subreddit for
05:33basically every single WGU degree so
05:36look into that check that out they will
05:38be sharing all kinds of pro tips
05:40strategies for studying strategies for
05:43passing the tests Etc so it is a
05:45phenomenal resource because sometimes
05:47these classes change and so the way that
05:49you study them and the way that you pass
05:51the tests are going to change as well
05:52but there's also a ton of different
05:53resources online that are either free or
05:56very cheap YouTube is free Khan Academy
05:58is free there's a lot lots of great
06:00cheap classes on Udacity and udemy and
06:03if you're a textbook type person you can
06:05order a textbook that's like two or
06:06three years old for probably like 20
06:08bucks on Amazon now once you have
06:10pre-studied all of the remaining classes
06:12and you feel very confident about it you
06:15want to go ahead and enroll in WGU at
06:18this point so you talk to your counselor
06:19tell them you're ready to enroll and
06:21then once you start you want to knock
06:22these classes out as fast as possible
06:25and you should be able to get through
06:26them relatively fast because you already
06:28know the material and the reason you
06:30want to do this is because realistically
06:32you want to be able to graduate from WGU
06:34in one to two terms Max and the reason
06:38for that is because you pay WGU by the
06:40term right so if you knock out all 39
06:43classes in like one or two terms you
06:46only have to pay for one to two terms so
06:48it makes sense for you to knock out as
06:49many of those classes as possible while
06:51you're enrolled at WGU now typically
06:53getting a bachelor's degree takes 5.1
06:56years on average data analytics data
06:59management is one of the more difficult
07:00bachelor's degrees so I think it would
07:02take at least four to five years for
07:04sure but at WGU there are a ton of
07:06testimonials of people who have gotten
07:07done with it in 18 months like this
07:09person there's people on YouTube that
07:11talk about how they finished it
07:12relatively quickly lots of testimonials
07:14you can look them up online and if you
07:16take it really seriously the time that
07:18you are enrolled in WGU likely will only
07:21be one term which is around six months
07:23now for the average person who's super
07:25busy has a family Works full-time
07:27something along those lines you can
07:29still probably knock it out in around
07:31two years and that's the entire process
07:33not just the time that you're enrolled
07:35at WGU so now let's go ahead and jump
07:37into that cheat sheet and I'm going to
07:39walk you through step by step an example
07:41of exactly how you could graduate with
07:43this degree in six months enrolled at
07:45WGU and maybe like a year or so of total
07:49study so as you can see this is the main
07:51page these are all the classes you have
07:53to take on the left if you click on that
07:56and then you know go ahead and click
07:57there it'll take you to the class on
07:59wgu's website these are all the
08:02transfers that you can transfer in using
08:04study.com we do focus on study.com
08:07because we found it's the most
08:09straightforward one and people tend to
08:11just have the best experience and get
08:12done the fastest with them and if you
08:14click on that go ahead and click there
08:16it will take you to the study.com class
08:18that matches now there are some cases
08:21where study.com doesn't have it but
08:23either straight or line and Sophia do
08:24and one of those is the Cs 1005 for
08:28instance we will try to keep this
08:29updated in the future by the way if any
08:31of this changes but you also see here
08:33that there are some certifications that
08:35you can knock out as well so for
08:37instance if you take the CompTIA plus
08:38project certification that will be good
08:41for the business of it management so
08:44let's go ahead and go over an example of
08:47something that might realistically
08:49happen in real life for an average
08:51person who was trying to go to WGU so
08:53we'll go to this first slide here let's
08:56just say that you transferred in a few
08:58classes because that is is of course
09:00step one so for instance let's say you
09:02took AP economics and AP Calculus during
09:05high school and you were able to
09:07transfer in economics 101 and math 101
09:09because of that and then you also took
09:11some classes in Community College like
09:12Communications and art so you were able
09:14to transfer those in and then because of
09:16the fact you knew you were going to have
09:17to take these certs anyways uh you went
09:20ahead and did all these certs as well
09:21and you transferred them in next we're
09:23going to move on to the test out phase
09:25and this is where you would test out of
09:27all these classes using study.com and in
09:30this case you would also be using
09:32sophia.org for this class web
09:34development foundations so you identify
09:37all these classes you test out of them
09:39using study.com and sophia.org and let's
09:42say this process takes you about three
09:46to six months or so but after
09:47transferring all those in it would look
09:48something like this you'd have one two
09:50three four five six seven eight nine ten
09:54eleven twelve thirteen classes left so
09:57the next thing you'd want to do is of
09:59course pre-study all of these classes
10:02you would use strategies that are
10:04offered on the WGU subreddit to
10:06pre-study them very efficiently and
10:08maybe this process takes about three
10:10months or so so at the end of this
10:12process you are six to nine months in
10:15now at this point you would go ahead and
10:17enroll in WGU you would knock these
10:20classes out as fast as you can and that
10:22would probably take you another three to
10:24six months or so so this whole process
10:26would take you somewhere between nine
10:28months to a year and a half total and
10:30there you go you would have yourself a
10:32data management and data analytics
10:34degree from WGU and you would probably
10:37celebrate and be super happy now by the
10:40way in this process if you want to save
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10:53then use that code and you'll help the
10:55channel out a little bit definitely
10:57check this video out right here where I
10:58go over if w you is worth it gently tap
11:01that like button hit the Subscribe
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11:03comment down below any thoughts comments
11:05criticisms Etc and I will see you next
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