> (while passing a minimum bar) and will grant me a B.S. at the end of it The minimum bar is too low. > Personally, some of the courses I'm taking now are jus

> (while passing a minimum bar) and will grant me a B.S. at the end of it The minimum bar is too low. > Personally, some of the courses I'm taking now are just as hard as those I took during undergrad at a brick-and-mortar university. I can't argue with your lived experience. But I can tell you, as someone that teaches such courses, the ones offered by WGU are woefully inadequate. The material they cover, the depth in which they do it, the rigor of the problem sets and exams, are all wildly out of tune with what is offered in any CS department that I have ever seen. > This comment comes off really strongly to me in the direction of gatekeeping. I don't care about gatekeeping. If WGU wants to offer a CS degree, that's great. Let's get everyone involved. But! Then they should offer a CS degree with the same level of rigor that is expected of any other student in any other CS department. It is very disingenuous of them to say they provide CS degrees, but then target the courses to such a low level. > Perhaps I wouldn't feel such a strong need to get the degree, if it wasn't a prerequisite to even higher education! Except that a WGU degree will not open the doors to even higher education. I cannot imagine a single CS department admitting a PhD student based on their credentials from WGU. The effort required to convince someone that you know what you're doing, is so huge compared to getting the WGU degree, I don't think it contributes much.