WGU you can power through material, skip material you already know, and once you are prepared for the test, you can simply take the test.

Learning is about repetition and building on concepts, even if you know "most" of it already. This is the problem with WGU at its core. It's all about cutting corners. Just because you can take one multiple choice exam online, google the questions you don't know, (or sometimes entire answer sets that are reused and shared) does not mean you actually know the material. Part of the perceived value of a degree is that you toughed it out through rigorous stuff and also tedious stuff. And in a full-length class, even if you are familiar with the subject, there will almost always be stuff you didn't know. Testing out of it will ensure you don't have to learn it.

Successful online classes are long and drawn out, as you saw, because they tend to use several methods of evaluation. BY participating in discussion questions every week, completing homework every week, and doing the exams, you prove that you must know the material at least a little bit even if you are cheating your way every time. The mere repetition forces you to learn something.

It's not like the contents of Physics, English Comp, Trig, Database design, CCNA networking, etc magically change because it's presented by a brick and mortar school. That's the whole point of accreditation, to set standards.

Accreditation means the school meets a basic set of standards, which is true. But University of Phoenix is also accredited regionally and so is Stamford. So taking calc 1 at university of phoenix is just as hard as calc 1 at stamford, because they are both accredited. Are you sure about that? WGU is a step up from UoP, but it's a lower tier school any way you look at it.

And it's not the content that is in question. The problem is how things are graded. At a better schools, it's fucking hard to get a B. But many of the online diploma mills, that WGU sometimes can be, will give As to everyone just for participating, or won't fail students that deserve to fail, simply because they need the tuition money to keep rolling in and they need to maintain enrollment numbers. Decent state schools have more than enough applicants to keep enrollment up, so there is less pressure to fudge grades and pass people who don't deserve it. That is the problem with "accreditation"

It sounds like you haven't taken classes anywhere else, and are just defending your degree as it relates to your own ego and self concept. Sounds like you have drank their marketing koolaid well. But it's irresponsible to recommend WGU as the absolute best option.