Is a bachelor's degree in 1 year actually realistic?
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Hey Josh, if you ever want to hear from someone who is doing the BSCSIA program right now with zero experience (while working full time) I'd be happy to share. :)
I’d be interested to hear. I’m starting Jan 1 no experience and 45 yrs old. Coming from healthcare field.
Im 18 and am on my last class of the BSCSIA degree, ive been grinding non stop for a year but tbf i havent had a job during that period, but overall its doable, you mainly just have to skip through and bang out the gen ed classes and other classes not related to your degree and focus on whats important to you and your degree.
This is beyond impressive. Wow. Congrats 🎊
Eyy I just turned 20 and I'm starting next month!!
I think with anything it comes down to how you approach it. You’ve got to be willing to put in the work and give yourself the best chance to succeed. That’s my look on it it.
Absolutely. Very well said!
Currently a security guard at facebook/meta making 50k a year. Breezed through 2 of my GE on Sophia in 5 days, hopefully I can finish this quick!
I'm loving all these new videos! Thank You!!!
I came in with one transfer class and in 6 months I’ve gotten to 25% of my degree done. And I’ve been taking it pretty easy. I can tell you with certainty I’ve spent only 204 hours in these six months studying and taking exams. I track all my work and study time. I’ve even got it broken down by each class. It’s doable for those with time and discipline and a bit of a knack for learning.
My major is General IT btw
@@rosaliom.s.2382 WGU is a diploma mill.
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This is something that has been on my mind lately. Great video! I'm starting the CS degree in February and want to complete it in one year. I don't have any IT experience but I'm determined to get it done.
Best of luck! And congrats on picking the best major hahaha 😏
@@JoshMadakor can we get proper degree after graduation or just certificates?
As someone who has their CCNA and has played League of Legends for an unhealthy amount of time, I fully agree with your statement lol. That game has stolen way too much of my time😂. Great video as always!
I’m 45. Don’t have a degree. Feeling too old to go for the marketing degree. Also feeling inspired to just go for it! Having a career in marketing has been a huge dream of mine. I realize this is tech but Josh, your content is truly inspiring!
Just go for it!!
Hope you go for it if you haven’t already! Never too old for education.
As a practically-complete newb to IT in general, this was a very informative video. Just need to know what I'm getting into😉
I was just looking for your contact info to ask you about this specific topic. Thanks for this video
Either way it goes its much easier and more flexible than most traditional colleges. Easy to complete twice as many classes as you would at traditional college, even if you dont get a bachelor's in 1 semester like the tenured tech people.
Just graduated last week with BSCSIA and it took me 2 terms with no experience. Took every class except for general studies and it was 89 credits total. Going back for my Masters in February and debating my D.Sc Cybersecurity after WGU.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing. That's a lot of credits in two terms :)
no tech experience and i'm in wgu for cloud computing (16 certs), and i'm tryna knock it out in a year max
Same here
most colleges IT degree paths you have to take certs.... my local community college the first class for the cybersecurity program was CCNA and it weeds out a lot of people
lmao first class is CCNA. CCNA is no joke, especially when people are brand new.
That’s brutal
Although I'm not a complete beginner, I am in the BSIT general program. It's still very difficult for me to do the certifications. I knew they would be, but I only have 8 classes left before graduation. Quite frankly, I'm trying to take my time as weird as that sounds because if I try to do all these one after another I would find it to be very taxing. All that matters is that I finish.
Just started a Study subscription last week, trying to get all of the core requirements for a Cybersecurity degree out the way. 3 classes done in less than 2 weeks-
Aiming to be done with a BSCIA at WGU by December 2023!
How many hours do you usually spend on study a day?
@@negan4089 I’ll usually get up at like 4 am and do 2-3 hours of concentrated studying. That’s when most of it gets done. Then I’ll do another 1-2 hours before bed, in total I’d say 5-6 hours a day but most of the progress happens those first 3 hours.
The dogs barking at the end scared tf out of me but great vid otherwise g 👍
Hey bro what’s your ethnicity I’m just curious
? I’m working on my Capstone at WGU in the CyberSec program
I started in April of this year with 35 CEU transferred in, no prior IT experience. Pretty much done by New Year.
I took your advice from other videos and am currently set to start my cloud degree (Stuck between Multi-Track or Azure Track) in January. I was able to bring in certs, Sophia and SDC courses so I’m starting with 42.40% complete.
Anyone with WGU experience: Do you think finishing in two terms (1 Year) possible in the cloud track?
Also wanted to add that your videos were very helpful, especially your Google Sheets!
42%< is amazing wow. Best of luck with whichever track you pick ^^
Glad the content and sheets were helpful!!
Which video did you watch.. im going for the security
Did it in a year
Hell yeah, good work chief :)
2:41, agreed, most of these cert vendors get people with the exam retakes and renewals.
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They love their coins lol. "Oh no, too many people passing, time to make it harder" lol
How important are certs? I’m currently trying to decide which IT program I want to enroll in at WGU. Like everyone I would also like to finish the program quickly, but I am in no rush. Do I do a program with no-to-little certs and finish quickly? Or do I take a little longer and complete a program with a lot of certs?
My job will pay 100% of my degree at WGU. They also may or may not pay for certs post graduation depending on the cert.
I’m taking general it because all the specific programs for it seem like cert specific I could just go get the certs afterward and probably will get into cloud computing
Josh (or anyone) hope you read this message and you can give me some feedback on these 2 questions (You can comment or make a short video)
Question #1:
I am in my last year of high school and all of my teachers, students, say WGU is useless and a waste of money. My family is also a bit skeptical about it. I am feeling a bit influenced by them since they say I will hardly find a job later. Any advice? ( I want to pursue a BS in CS) Note: I do not care about in person college "Experience" and I want to find a job as quick as possible
Question #2:
Is it possible to get masters degree in computer science in any other university with a WGU BS??? I am looking forward in getting my masters later if I get a BS In CS from WGU.
1) those people have no idea what they are talking about, in the literal sense.
Watch this video and read the comments (wgu degree == toilet paper?): ua-cam.com/video/592TBeUPdZw/v-deo.html
Is WGU Legit?: ua-cam.com/video/E2MwRWxDBkA/v-deo.html
Also, bear in mind I have passed a Google software engineering phone screen while having a CS degree from WGU: ua-cam.com/video/wVOU-oLOGuk/v-deo.html
2) Yes you absolutely can, but it depends on the target university so you should double-check. WGU keeps a list of universities where students have gone on to take graduate-level programs at: www.wgu.edu/alumni/career-support/education-and-professional-paths.html
Best of luck :)
Hey Josh, I was going to do the bachelors of it, and then get the computer science degree. Would you recommend this, or should I only get a comp-sci degree? Thanks for the videos.
Hey! I don't usually recommend getting 2 bachelor's degrees unless you REALLY want them, or you need 2 for some reason. If you are into CS/coding and are fine with the maths and theory that goes into the CS degree, I highly recommend you just get that. Just know that it's going to be significantly more conceptually difficult than the IT degree.
If you aren't really into the maths/theory/algos, just go with the IT degree. Either way, you can make a lot of money as long as you are on top of your career :)
@@JoshMadakor Awesome thank you!
Out of curiosity, why do you not recommend 2 of them? Is it looked at bad to have 2 bachelors?
Do you still get the certifications from WGU when you transfer the SDC classes to satisfy that class?
If you transfer in Project Management from SDC and it satisfies the Project+ class, you won't get Project+, just the credit. This sucks, but in some cases, the time and energy saved outweighs actually having the cert, especially when you're already getting other, more useful certs^^
Nothing wrong with a ton of certs.
Makes WGU attractive to employers asking for certs or keeps you in the running for the job you want.
You just gotta get use to the certification test format.
What’s unrealistic is people trying to drop into a cert and grind it out without a plan or approach.
Or people unwilling to try an entry or bottom level cert, to graduate into another.
Is A+ plus hard? Try ITF+ first.
Is CCNA hard? Then study for CCT first.
Or just use the material, not even sit for the cert, but study the bottom level and work your way up and add study hours.
Very well said, thanks for typing that all out, haha
So if I have a bachelor's from a pretty good university can I transfer the gen ed stuff over and fairly quickly get a second degree? Would it be a good deal if you want a lot of certs for a good price?
_>So if I have a bachelor's from a pretty good university can I transfer the gen ed stuff over and fairly quickly get a second degree?_
Yep, exactly. Or even a mediocre university lol.
_>Would it be a good deal if you want a lot of certs for a good price?_
Yep. You could even pre-study some of the certs before paying and enrolling, then just bang them out super quick. Possibly finish that degree in
How difficult would the accelerated bachelor's/master's in IT/IT Management be for someone who's somewhat tech savvy but not professionally?
It wouldn't be too bad. the generally IT degree is not bad compared to Network Engineering or CS. To get a feel for how long it might take, check on reddit to see how fast people are completing it.
Before I realized how to go super super fast. I completed half the BS credits in 5.5 months, and I was trying my best (i then graduated since i transferred credits in).
I recommend using Study(.)com to ease your way into it and reduce some cost. (Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/H7ViAgdVhFQ/v-deo.html ) - Use Discount code if you end up doing this, save some coins
Here is a video on the program you're talking about, this might be useful too!: ua-cam.com/video/rrC4U753CI0/v-deo.html
@@JoshMadakor Great, thank you!
Any chance you could break down the Masters or MBA program?
Hey! I sort of did--check out these videos:
BS+MS Accelerated Track Breakdown: ua-cam.com/video/rrC4U753CI0/v-deo.html
Do you need a Masters?: ua-cam.com/video/LfHBXt7am7w/v-deo.html
Hope these help ^^
It’s not too unrealistic. I was gonna go to WGU and I did just about every very any of their degrees would require in 2 months and that was without any IT experience at all… not even the experience of looking at a windows computer in over 15 years
Hi Josh, can you talk about chatgpt and if you think it will pose a threat to developers by taking away their jobs?
Haha, I actually started researching this lately. After reading your comment, I was like "aint no way.", so I asked ChatGPT this just now:
"Can you please write me an example script in any language for connecting to Azure Blob Storage and uploading a text file?"
and it actually did it, correctly....
I don't think it's going to replace devs, but it's probably going to change the landscape somehow..
Here is what it created, if you were curious O_O:
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import os
from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient, BlobClient, ContainerClient
# Replace with your Azure Storage account name and key
account_name = "myaccount"
account_key = "mykey"
# Create the BlobServiceClient object which will be used to create a container client
service = BlobServiceClient(account_url=f"{account_name}.blob.core.windows.net", credential=account_key)
# Create a container client
container_name = "mycontainer"
container_client = service.get_container_client(container_name)
# Create a file in local data directory to upload and download
local_path = "./data"
local_file_name = "example.txt"
upload_file_path = os.path.join(local_path, local_file_name)
# Write text to the file
with open(upload_file_path, "w") as f:
f.write("Hello, World!")
# Get a blob client using the local file name as the blob name
blob_client = container_client.get_blob_client(local_file_name)
print("Uploading file to Azure Blob storage as blob:
\t" + local_file_name)
# Upload the created file
with open(upload_file_path, "rb") as data:
blob_client.upload_blob(data)
print("File uploaded to Azure Blob storage.")
Not joking, I can probably get away with working like an hour a day with this for my main job. Wow.
@@JoshMadakor Wow definitely a nifty piece of techology!
Hey hey Josh! Are you considering giving a course on Javascript and/ or Python? if you build it, we nerds will enroll!!!!!
Haha thanks! And yeah, python :). Still in my brain though haha
@@JoshMadakor thats awesome to hear and something to look forward to! I'll keep anneyw out for it. You're the best!
@@JoshMadakorwould love to hear more they say python essential for cloud that or java would much rather learn python than java
do we have to follow this same course path ?
Nope. The first three classes are assigned to you by your course mentor, after that, you can pick the courses yourself :)
If you just know how to play games and send email, it'll be 4 years. If you know computers quite well, 3 years-2 if you want to run yourself into the ground. If you just want to game the system and do nothing, maybe even pay someone to do it for you, then less than a year.
I agree with the fact that there are timelines for certain skill levels that may increase or decrease with the amount of effort and planning that you include :)
I am 30 years old and just getting started deciding I need a REAL job that makes REAL money. I want to go to WGU for something and bust ass and get a degree. I have no prior degree and practically no college experience. After only working jobs that literally have nothing to do with tech, and knowing absolutely nothing about anything tech related (I barely know what a server is lol) Is there any degree you recommend I look into? I just want to get a degree and after graduating be able to get my foot in a door in the most straight forward job that does not take a lot of brain power or expertise to perform. Coding, cyber security, cloud, I barely know what any of it means and none of it sounds exciting to me, I'm just chasing the money. If you were an intelligent man with zero tech knowledge and just starting now, knowing what you know now what is the easiest thing to pick up and understand fast and implement and get a career right out of college?
I dont think this field is for you if you want a job where you dont have to think too much or perform much. Frankly I dont think there's a straightforward path to any job like that. Why do you think like this?
@@samo6401 because life is too short to spend it slaving away for someone else. I just want a path to a career where as long as I have the basics of whatever that skill is mastered pretty well I have good work life balance and I can do my job and earn my paycheck… I am 30 so no I want no wasted effort. I can deadlift 600lbs. Not necessarily because I’m the hardest worker or the strongest man on earth, but it’s a combination of working relatively hard, but also taking the most straight forward approach to the lift, I have no wasted effort the bar moves on a straight line, my setup is the same each time, the bar starts over mid foot and I pull all the slack out of the bar before I lift etc… for an average person a 600 lb deadlift is extremely difficult, because I applied myself for a period of time and I understood the mechanics well I now can perform a clean rep without much thought or effort. Am I lazy in that endeavor? No I don’t think so.. I have children and personal dreams i want to accomplish in this lifetime I want maximum income for my effort applied. I don’t have any energy to waste on the mundane or unneeded grind… why don’t you think like this?
Wait a minute you play league? And although things seem complicated at times just like league of legends, once you understand it you can do it without much thought. I feel like that applies with most things.
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If someone tells me they got a bachelors degree in less than three years they better have an IQ of 160 or higher. Otherwise I would laugh at that because it's akin to a 6 year old having a black belt in a martial art. That's why people respect Brazilian Jujitsu because it takes adults up to 20 years to earn a black belt. Normally it takes people 2-3 years to get an associates degree and the graduation rate is around 30%. I understand that if you're in IT and the degree isn't highly valued they would accept one from WGU that was earned in 6 to 9 months.
it is totaly realistic to earn a diploma mill in 1 year.