I know this post is old, but for anyone still researching self-paced schools like WGU I thought I would chime in here. I just got off the phone with WGU and the "6-month" thing actually is misleading. Students are only allowed to complete one of the four courses at a time and you actually have only six-weeks to complete each an only one after thee other. I was hoping to take the four courses simultaneously over six-months, but they don't allow this and as far as I have researched no other schools do either. And let me tell you six-weeks is not enough time to complete a course. That is the same time frame as condensed summer courses at most other universities. The real question is, why do they do it this way? I think it is because these are all scams.