some of them are even certification exams

Yeah, and that is the opposite of real university education. That shit is for trade school. University classes are supposed to approach subjects not from the perspective of braindumping some exam questions, but have you think critically about things, discuss them with your peers, and explain concepts. The fact that you can test out of a class by taking a certification exam in it's place is horrid.

Assuming a test isn't a "right or wrong" type of test, which is absolutely no different than any other test at any other school, the performance tests are graded on strict rubrics. You don't "just pass for participating". In fact, they are stricter about it than the university I orginally attended.

Whether you spend a semester or a month learning Calculus, you ass is going to forget it within a few months if you don't use it and aren't interested in it.

That doesn't matter, what matters is that you did the mental work out to learn calculus, and can prove it. The brain is a muscle. This shows you approach learning only as a tradesmen. If it isn't something for the job or if it's something you might forget, why bother learning it? Because it expands your mind. And even if you retain only 1% of it, that's 1% more than if you didn't learn it.

it's absolutely disgusting to you to think you wasted a ton of money and time in a brick and mortar when you could have finished your degree in half the time for half the price

Man, stop being so intense. Disgusting? Tons of people get way better deals than me all the time. It's called life. Some people get to go to Harvard for free, and that's a better deal than either of us get. I am trying to help this person make the right decision for what they will spend at least $20,000 on. I don't have some weird vendetta against a school that had lower tuition than my own. I am literally promoting Minot State University which is almost as cheap as WGU.

And anyway, I only paid $11k for my BS in IT at Umass because it was a 2nd bachelor's degree.

WGU also has a far worse failure rate than traditional brick and mortar schools. Again, do some fucking research.

You can fail if you don't' do the work, which is often the case with WGU, since it is cheap and caters to a lot of low-end students.

Also, WGU was the first school that I looked at when I was looking at online education. It's not like I didn't stumble upon it in my research until it was too late. I was intrigued by the low tuition. But then I realized that it does not have a great reputation. The curriculum looked weak. And that so many employers would bin it because it's another one of those online diploma mill schools.

I get trying to defend WGU even as being "as good" as a normal school, but the fact that you have all of these ideas that it is far superior on any level other than tuition is just hilarious. How brainwashed can someone be? I went to UMass and I am not for one second going to act like it was the greatest school ever... it's national ranking of 156 seems about right to me. It's the worst of the Massachusetts State Universities! Amherst grads make fun of it. But it's still legions better than WGU.

The biggest thing you don't address is the quality of the professors. Like I said, do you really think people making $20 an hour part time teaching an online class are the best professors you could get?