Your Thoughts on the University of Wyoming?

Just wondering if anyone has any experience or insight on the University Of Wyoming?

Thanks!

Kelly


Ps. My major would be Business Administration. If I decide to attend, I would begin in the Summer or the Fall.

 

Good Education X Great Price = UW Outreach

I'm about to wrap up my degree at the University of Wyoming. I've been attending online classes there since Summer 2001, and have been very pleased with the experience. There is a residency requirement, unlike the "Big Three", so you won't be able to test out of everything, but I have been able to test out of 7 classes with 6 CLEP tests, plus they accepted all my AP credit as evaluated by my previous college.

If you don't have an Associates' degree in business, be prepared to work to get some of your required credits (I didn't have one myself, and I took CLEP and classes at community college to get up to speed). The online BSBA program ONLY covers the last two years, for the first two, you are pretty much on your own. You can earn some lower division credit through correspondence study (I've finished one correspondence class, and am working on the second now), but there are limits as to how much correspondence study you can apply to your degree program.

The advisors and staff are good, and work to make sure that you are on the right track. If you are persistent, you can make things happen - I had to really work to find a credit-by-exam option for statistics, eventually we settled on the DSST exam.

The classes are top-notch - most of the online classes, especially in the College of Business are taught by full-time faculty with good experience in their fields. I've really enjoyed my Decision Science and Business Law classes - the profs for these classes in particular know their stuff inside and out!

One minor quirk - you'll probably end up unintentionally concentrating in real estate. UW also offers a real estate certificate, and most of its courses can be applied to the business degree. I've already taken two of the six courses in the certificate program, and will take at least two more next semester. If I thought I might ever sell Real Estate in Wyoming, I'd finish the certificate.

The price is really reasonable - UW actually cut tuition last year, which was awesome. Be sure to order your books early - I found you can save some money ordering new books off Amazon.co.uk as opposed to buying new books from the UW bookstore, but you have to make sure you're buying the right edition. Anyway, if you aren't looking to "test out", and are looking for a good value, UW is a great deal.

 

Where are you from?

I've attended UW.

It's a solid mid-sized Division I state university, the only one in this small (by population) state (which is actually quite large in area). Their revenues are buoyed by oil and gas exploitation. Its orientation is both to the intermountain West, as well as the high plains to the East.

Accordingly, Laramie is both high in altitude (7-7,500ft.), and windiness trhoughout the year! The town is small, although surprisingly cosmolpolitan for its size and isolation. Less than 90 minutes to Ft. Collins - another hour to Denver beyond. The UW library is linked to "Prospector" for regional access to (what Coloradan's term the) Front Range resources - from Laramie to Colorado Springs. Although the UW library is pretty good.

What else - specifically - would you like to know? You could PM me... & I do have an env econ textbook (for Univ of London) whose co-author is in Wyoming's B school (or is it Dept. of Natural Resources)....

---Orson
PS If you have an option on entry, go summer. By September, there will be snow (although it won't stay).

 

I am only an applicant to their MSN program, but I can tell you from just my very limited experience with the staff that this seems like a very student oriented school. I couldn't be more happy with the help I've received from them in getting all the application items done and correct. They provide very personal service, from the undergraduate staff through to the masters level. I'm estatic over finding this school and the attention they have given me. I look forward to (hopefully) attending.

 

University of Wyoming has a very solid reputation as a good school. I know some of the faculty in the Department of Adult Learning & Technology...good competent folks.

Tony Piña
Faculty, Cal State U. San Bernardino

 

It's a depressing thing to have to remind, but one of the few enduring major university names used by diploma mill operators has been "University of Wyoming," used for quite some time by a man named Karl Xavier Bleisch from Switzerland. Clearly Miss Kelly is dealing with the real one . . . but there must be people dealing with Bleisch or why would he keep promoting it. (The last literature I saw was postmarked San Jose, California.)

 

As per the esteemed John Bear's advice...

Make sure your correspondence with the University of Wyoming is postmarked "Laramie, WY" - where the real deal is located!

--Orson

 

Thank you! Good Information, especially the info about a similar degree mill. I would have never thought about it. Hopefully, I am dealing with the legit University.

Residency as in you have to go to Wyoming to attend a class/workshop/etc or Residency as in you have to take a certain amount of classes at UoW? Testing Out is actually not an option for me because I would have to drive out of state or 3 hours each way to get to a testing center; thus, the need for a distance learning university to attend.

Another thing, what level Statistics class do they require? I have approximately 75 credits now but Statistics is definately not one of them. I don't know how I could go about getting that requirement met.

Anyways, Thanks for the info. I really do appreciate it.

Kelly

 

I assume you're looking at the online program located at http://online.uwyo.edu. Unless they've managed to snow me for over three and a half years, this is the actual University of Wyoming.

Sorry to confuse the issue. You don't have to visit Wyoming, you just have to take a minimum of 30 (I believe, upper-division) hours through the University of Wyoming, whether those hours are on-campus, correspondence, or web-based, they don't care. Also, the College of Business requires that 27 hours of your upper-division business credits come from UW.

The BSBA requires STAT 2010, but that class is not offered online. Since it's lower division, they expect you to have taken it at a community college. For those of us who have not taken it, they will substitute STAT 2050, which is offered via correspondence. I was able to use the DANTES/DSST Statistics exam, which transfered in as STAT 2070, which is also accepted as a substitute.

 

This thread brought back a few memories. I took one of my very first independent study courses from UW back in the 80s. It was --- Intro to Computers.

John

 

Last September, it made Outside Magazine's top 40 list of schools that are prime for hitting the books and the backcountry.

While it doesn't influence my decision on which school to attend through DL, it does help out with the decision on where to start my second career in about 10 years.

 

Thanks for all the replies. I'm still 'up in the air' about UoW. I really like UoW and RIT the best so far. I see pros and cons with each of them.


One last question for Fortunato: In your opinion, how user friendly is the UoW site in terms of web based classes and getting in touch with faculty? I think this is especially important considering I will not be going to Wyoming anytime soon nor do I want to call long distance just to talk to someone. Thanks again!

 

Well I went ahead and filled out an application for the University of Wyoming last night. I guess now all there is to do is wait and see how everything transfers. That will be of upmost importance. Thanks again for all the help.

 

Some commentary on an associate of Bleisch's here: Click

Can't vouch for it, but it sounds like the same guy.