Do transferable credits change after obtaining a bachelors degree

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Hello,

I’m planning on going to a school called western governors university for computer science. They let you transfer in a bunch of ace accredited credits from places like study. com which I was planning on doing to save money. I was thinking of maybe going to my local state college after that to get a degree in electrical engineering or math. The problem is this school doesn’t accept those study. com credits. They do accept credits from any regionally accredited institution though which WGU is. My question is, after I get a full bachelors degree from western governors university. Would the credits for the classes I took from study. com be transferable because they’re now associated with an actual degree at a regionally accredited institution?

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Graduate schools see your entire record. So you’d need to contact each graduate school and check. But none of the quality schools in my state accept those credits. There are lot of degree granting schools that issue worthless degrees

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I kind of thought as much. I emailed my local school but haven’t gotten a response yet. Thanks.

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Assuming you get a bachelor’s from WGU, you would be getting a master’s degree, not a second bachelor’s degree. Reach out to the correct department at your local state college to verify requirements, as you will need to show them all undergrad transcripts…but a WGU bachelor’s degree should be honored as they are accredited as you stated.

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sort of similar: my kid’s undergraduate school gave credit for a 3 on an AP test in a certain subject. But one of the grad schools she looked as specifically stated that a 3 on that test was not acceptable for grad school, even if the undergrad institution gave credit; she would have had to take the class over in college if she wanted to apply there.

it sounds like this is similar. ?

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So the scenario is:

  • Credit from A.
  • That credit from A is accepted for transfer credit by B.
  • Now want to attend C as a transfer or in a graduate program.

The most likely scenario is that C will evaluate the credit directly from the original source A by its own policies, rather than as passed through B.

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On a related note, my niece recently went to graduate school in a discipline that required more math than her arts undergraduate. The graduate school required she take and retake several math classes although they accepted her degree. And this was in the same school system.

The schools aren’t going to let you launder credit through a third party.