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It's Offical: Graduating with Bachelor of Science, Business Management. My thoughts on the experience.
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It's Offical: Graduating with Bachelor of Science, Business Management. My thoughts on the experience.

It’s been a long journey, but it’s over. I officially have my Bachelor of Science in Business Management.

For those wondering if it’s worth it or how it’s viewed by employers: I was recruited two weeks before my degree was completed for an ITSM process management consultant role at a scientific laboratory, with a six-figure compensation package, about 20% more than my previous role. A degree was required for the role.

So, my thoughts on the overall experience. First, WGU was a great experience. I had no issues with the school or the content. All the hurdles were personal, but the ability to accelerate, along with the support from my mentor during difficult personal challenges, kept me on track.

I worked full time while attending WGU for the duration.

How I did it:

  • Transfer Credits: 18 credits
  • Term 1 (Jan 2023 – Jun 2023): 34 credits
  • Term 2 (Jul 2023 – Dec 2023): 6 credits
  • Term 3 (Jan 2024 – Jun 2024): 12 credits
  • Term 4 (Jul 2024 – Dec 2024): 12 credits
  • Term 5 (Jan 2025 – Jun 2025): 9 credits
  • Term 6 (Jul 2025 – Jun 2026): 28 credits

My last term was done with 13 days remaining on the calender.

Hardest classes, in my opinion:

  • BUS D080: Managing in a Global Business Environment (only assessment I failed on the first attempt)
  • MGMT C722: Project Management

Classes that were way less stressful than I expected:

  • BUS C723: Quantitative Analysis for Business
  • MATH C955: Applied Probability and Statistics

So was it worth it? Absolutely. WGU’s content was solid, the presentation was exactly what I needed, and the proctored exam process was smooth every single time. The material was challenging but not insurmountable by any means. Because you’re not dealing with a lecture hall trying to decipher the intent, communication style, and personality of a professor in front of you, you can absorb and analyze content in a way that fits how your brain works, which is a good thing.

I do recommend WGU, and I fully intend to return for an MBA at some point in the next couple of years.

Also, this community was a huge help. Thank you all.

u/AC-Vb3 — 1 hour ago
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Teilnehmer für Umfrage über Reportageformate gesucht

Hey zusammen,

Für meine Masterarbeit suche ich noch einige Teilnehmer. Ihr seht einen kurzen Videoclip und klickt euch dann durch ein paar Begriffe, die verschiedene Gefühle beschreiben sollen.
Es geht darum, wie journalistische Reportagen wahrgenommen werden und welche Emotionen sie bei Zuschauern auslösen.

Der Spaß dauert ca. 8-10 Minuten und ich freue mich wahnsinnig über jeden, der Lust hat, mich zu unterstützen :)
Leitet es gern auch weiter.

Danke, ihr seid Ehren-Datenpunkte 🫶

Zur Umfrage kommt ihr hier: https://irogroup.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\_eXlWa4Tgn45I1ee

u/Katti_bu — 4 hours ago
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QUESTIONARIO UNIVERSITARIO

Buongiorno a tutti e scusate il disturbo,

Sono uno studente in dirittura d'arrivo con il mio percorso di studi in Marketing .
Per la mia ricerca finale sto conducendo uno studio riguardante la percezione del consumatore sulla scelta di un locale/ristorante/pizzeria.

Mi rivolgo a questa community sperando nella vostra consueta disponibilità per raccogliere gli ultimi dati necessari.
Il questionario è totalmente anonimo, i dati verranno trattati solo a fini statistici per la tesi e richiede al massimo 3 minuti .
Potete trovarlo a questo link:
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So che il tempo di ognuno è prezioso, quindi vi ringrazio sinceramente di cuore anche solo per l'attenzione o per un piccolo "upvote" per dare visibilità al post.
Vi auguro un proseguimento di giornata sereno e grazie ancora per il supporto! 🙏

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u/FrancescoPaoloC — 3 hours ago
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Hi everyone! Could you please help with my MSc dissertation? UK adults aged 19–64 needed (short online survey) (mod approved)

📢 Participants needed for a research study!

Are you a UK adult aged 19–64? I'm looking for volunteers to take part in a short online study exploring preferences for physical activity messaging.

You’ll be shown pairs of physical activity messages and asked to choose which you would prefer to receive. There are no right or wrong answers - I am interested in your personal preferences.

✅ Takes approximately 10 minutes
✅ Completely online
✅ Anonymous responses
✅ No fitness or physical activity required

This research is being conducted as part of my MSc in Physical Activity for Health at the University of Edinburgh. The findings could help to inform evidence-based physical activity messaging for adults in the UK.

👉 Take part here: https://edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_afnHqBtM2OpvDtI

Ethical approval for this study has been obtained from Moray House School of education and sports ethics committee.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply or email me at w.curtis-ormerod@sms.ed.ac.uk

Please share with anyone who might be interested.

Thank you for your support! 🙏

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u/Mysterious_Zebra850 — 10 hours ago
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need help with choosing course v college preferences

my score is 844/1000, general candidate, i want to pursue economics honours.

what are realistic colleges i should aim for (if this year's cutoff is expected to lower slightly)?

and

is it better to study bsc stats at lsr/hindu or econ at jmc/venky?

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u/jengastitchedapart — 6 hours ago
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senior checklist for college

hello! i’m about to go into my senior of high school and so far i‘m not so sure about what i want to do. i’ve always told myself i was going to be a lawyer, but now it’s just not something i want to do anymore so that screwed me over. i have no extracurriculars in my name, i was so stressed my junior that i literally had no time outside of school. and right now its so difficult to get a job as a teenager in LA because of the job market.

after looking at everything i think i might want to do nursing, or business school but im honestly open to anything except computer science. i’m also kind of clueless on how majors and minors work, none of my family members went to college so i dont have that support. if you’d could help me choose those majors and minors i would also appreciate it.

my mom is a marine veteran so i get okay benefits for college. i don’t get why chapter 35 benefits because she has no service connected disabilities. but she has the yellow ribbon program and basically if i go anywhere out of state or private they can cover a portion of it. like pepperdine and UMiami will cover everything and UOregon will cover a portion. so i kinda wanna aim more toward a private/out of state college if possible but with reasonable acceptance rate for me. thank you!

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u/Mental_Language_3364 — 7 hours ago
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FOMO on the uni experience

I'm studying mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich and I've contemplated writing on here for a while now. I've almost finished my first year and am feeling incredibly lost and somehow am hoping reddit will offer me some advice (that is, if anyone ever reads this).

When I decided where to go to uni, my instinct was the UK as I'm a very anglophone person. I've grown up in Switzerland, so the other plan was Swiss uni as it costs close to nothing. But when the decision approached, I felt I could never put my family under such financial pressure (especially as I already have a complicated family..) and decided it would be best to go to the cheaper, equally good school. But this year has sucked. We don't have dorms, I live pretty much alone, we don't have many clubs or societies, it's incredibly lonely and individual. Especially the first year at ETH, known as the "basic year", the uni does everything they can to prevent you from doing anything other than studying as you really need to do well on the theory. So my mind keeps going back to "what if I had applied to the UK?"

So here's where I am asking for advice. The main reason this year has sucked is because I have simply not found "my people", and so I feel alone at uni. And in my ideal world, if I had gone to a Uni in the UK, that wouldn't have happened as there's so much in place to make it a fun and social experience. I also feel that being surrounded by anglophones would have suited me better. Someone I was in love with and hurt me is going to Cambridge, and I feel so much jealously as to how much fun he'll have compared to the year I have had. As he is someone I adored and associate Cambridge to him, I feel I would have met so many people like him that could be "my people". But a part of this is probably delaying the problem, and maybe I also would have felt lonely anywhere else and this is just part of life.

So I don't know what to do with all this jealously and fear of missing out. Has anyone gone through something similar, and has advice on how to deal with it ? Of course, any place is what you make of it, but after a year of trying I haven't seemed to have met a single person I truly click with. A part of it too is that despite studying stem I get along better with people in the humanities, and there is none of that here.

In conclusion: I wish I had gone to Cambridge or an adjacent "uni experience-esque" UK school and it's too late. How do I stop thinking of how great my imaginary UK life would have been, when I have no idea if it would have been great?

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u/Spirited_woe_2342 — 11 hours ago
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For you that went to university/college away from home

Hi guys! My sister 18f is going to university in September. She moves away from home. I want to make her a gift that will make her life easier. I didnt have to move away for my studies so I really have no idea what she would need. She’s my little bestie so I want to spoil her

Thanks in advance!!🫶🏻

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u/Dizzy_Tap_4286 — 10 hours ago
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Just graduated

Just graduated a few weeks ago. May 15th to be exact.
Throughout school I was very disciplined, ate clean, hit the gym daily, had friends, had a regular job and life was pretty good.
Over the past few weeks it feels like my life has fallen apart. For starters, I renewed my lease in my college town because rent was so cheap. So I've already been feeling like stuck. Then I lost my job about a week after I graduated, and have been eating horrible fast food daily, barely hitting the gym. I have been doing DoorDash to just get by, and applying for loads of jobs online with no responses.
I just feel like my life instantly fell apart, and I need to get it back asap before | let myself go, I've already gained a few pounds, and my motivation tanked to do anything besides DoorDash.
Any advice...

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u/Classic_Pay3753 — 10 hours ago
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I need help with this survey… all answers would be anonymous!!🙏

The Impact of Social Media Marketing on Consumer Buying Behavior Among University Students

All responses will be treated with strict confidentiality and used solely for academic purposes. Your honest feedback is essential in helping us better understand the topic under investigation and achieve meaningful research outcomes.

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What's the most annoying part of living with roommates?

Genuinely curious what other people's experiences are like - trying to figure out if it's just my house or this is universal lol.

What's your biggest roommate pain point?

View Poll

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u/Flashy-Lemon9460 — 1 day ago
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Convert your Voice to To-dos, Notes and Journals. Can try out Utter on Android

Hey everyone, I have built an app called Utter that turns your Voice into To-Dos, Notes & Journal entries. And for To-Dos, it turns what you said into an actual task you can check off, not just another note.

Most voice-to-text apps just dump a wall of text and you still have to sort it later. Mine turns speech into an organized notejournal, or to-do right away.

If you’re interested, you can download the app on android play store : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utter.app

u/Ve77an — 1 day ago

Is there a way to fund university internationally as a UK citizen?

Im looking at university and would like to go abroad for an undergraduate degree but it's extortionate lol and I don't have the funding to do it, is there anyway I can get a loan for somewhere like australia or america? I know that Germany and austria are pretty much free so that's also an option but I'd need to learn German lol

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u/zacibs1 — 1 day ago
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What is studying QSing at Uni actually like?

Hi I just finished yr13 and I’m about to enter uni to study quantity surveying. I’m just really curious as to how people found the experience. Was it more exams or coursework? Does a lot of it relate to the actual working life? Is the course enjoyable? Should I do any preparations before starting the course?

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u/Realistic-Golf164 — 2 days ago

Need help for choosing a major and minor

Okay so i pretty much decided on doing political science for major and social work for minor. For my career I’d like to work for MUN in helping woman specifically(or anyone that really needs it) it’s sort of broad I know but I’m still thinking on what I want to do in the future but in summary I want to help people. I have a lot I want to do like abolishing laws that harm woman or harmful traditional practices (there are a lot of harmful practices in Africa specifically where I lived all my life), helping victims of human trafficking escape or just get rid of laws that harm woman/ people in general.

I’m not sure im choosing the right major and minor so I’d just like to hear other peoples opinions on it.

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u/Soft__Cherrylipx — 1 day ago
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possibly graduating with an unclassified degree

TLDR: if i don't delay graduation, i'll receive an unclassified degree, and i'm scared for what that means for my future and my relationship with my parents.

TW// mental health issues

i'm 21 years old, and i've been doing a degree in biological sciences for the past four years. i had to resit my second year of uni after failing most of my modules due to the impact of my mental health issues (autism, ocd, depression, suicidal ideation) and my parents were so fucking upset with me. we're in a better place now as i did a lot better in my second attempt at my second year, but i've since failed two modules in my third year, meaning if i choose to graduate this month, i'll recieve an unclassified degree.

i don't know how to tell them, they've put so much into me persuing this degree, but i feel like i tank it every time with my issues that just won't improve no matter how hard i try. they're so excited for me to graduate this month, but i don't know if it's worth it to graduate with an unclassified degree or not.

honestly, i just want to be done with this whole chapter of my life, i'm just so tired and i don't think i ever want to go back into academia again, but i'm scared about what the future holds and whether having an unclassified degree would be worth the pain and stress i've caused my parents over the past few years, as well as all the debt i'm now in.

i've got a meeting with the graduation advisory board next week, and my parents say they're just glad i'm coping better with all my issues now regardless of my grade, but i don't know that i believe that based on their past reactions. there's so much more going on between us regarding my life and who i am, and i just don't want to lose them and my little sister over this. i feel like they think i'm just lazy and don't want to get better, but all i want is to be able to live like a proper person and make them all proud. i think i just feel a bit hopeless. i don't think it's my own conscious fault that i've lost interest in my subject area

i don't know what i want to do with my life - this degree has taken everything out of me. i feel so much more stupid than i did pre-uni, maybe one day i'll be able to reignite my passion for science, but for now i just need to focus on keeping myself alive. i don't feel passion for anything anymore, any advice or insights would be appreciated more than you know. thank you for reading.

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u/Comfortable_Bet_5688 — 2 days ago

When do you fart when having a roommate

I’m going to uni this fall and I’m kinda worried about having a roommate cuz I’d be living with a stranger and I won’t be able to fart in my dorm for at least a couple weeks until we get more familiar and even then I fart a lot especially in new places and when my roommate and I get comfortable enough to fart around each other I’m gonna be gassing the whole place up 24/7. None of the dorms I applied to has a washroom in it so I’ll have to go all the way to the shared washroom if I want to fart. Also when do u goon? Ik u goon when ur roommates gone but how do yk when they come back? Is it common for roommates to tell each other their schedule?

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u/Opening-Craft-1082 — 1 day ago
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Does anyone actually like school bookstore merch?

I actually want to buy school merch, but I feel like a lot of bookstore stuff is kind of poorly designed or a bit parent-coded.

The options are usually just huge logo hoodies, stiff crewnecks, or mugs. Student club merch, game day fits, and random campus stuff actually looks way more better and way less cringey to wear outside of school.

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u/Friendly_Story8429 — 3 days ago
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Indeciso,aiutatemi pls

Ciao a tutti,
sono un laureando in Economia e Commercio all’Università di Bari (UniBa) e sto cercando un consiglio serio sulla scelta della magistrale.

Sono di Rutigliano (BA), quindi in triennale ho scelto UniBa principalmente per una questione di comodità e vicinanza. Ora però mi trovo indeciso sul da farsi per la magistrale in economia.

Il mio dubbio è questo: ha davvero senso restare su UniBa per la magistrale oppure vale la pena spostarsi fuori (per esempio Roma, La Sapienza o altre università più “blasonate”) anche solo per il nome dell’università?

Non ho preso un voto altissimo alla triennale, anche perché onestamente non ho seguito molto le lezioni con costanza, quindi non mi sento nemmeno “eccellente” dal punto di vista accademico.

Il problema principale è la paura di fare una scelta sbagliata: andare fuori, spendere molto di più tra affitto e vita in città, solo per il “nome” dell’università, senza poi un reale vantaggio concreto nel mondo del lavoro.

Mi farebbe davvero piacere sentire esperienze o consigli di chi ci è passato:

  • conviene restare e magari puntare su UniBa e costruirsi lì un buon percorso?
  • oppure il cambio di università per la magistrale può fare davvero la differenza?

Qualsiasi opinione è ben accetta, ho davvero bisogno di un consiglio esterno.

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u/No_Papaya9532 — 2 days ago