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WGU is changing the game for higher education in the Puget Sound area, especially those often overlooked by traditional colleges. Sponsored by WGU.
Paul Bingham and Mike Morris, former FBI cybersecurity agents, explain how they're training the next wave of defenders to ...
Western Governors University, a virtual institution, was granted regional accreditation on Tuesday by a group of four accrediting agencies. Officials at the university believe the news will ...
"No university was ever created for COVID, but WGU was ready." This month, WGU officially celebrates five years in Ohio, boasting nearly 10,000 graduates and about 5,000 students enrolled.
WGU has 83,000 students, mostly adults, preparing for the workforce as teachers, nurses, in technology or business; it's forged partnerships with public university systems in several states.
Western Governors University just hit a major milestone. The Utah-based national online, nonprofit university awarded a record 50,168 bachelor's or master's degrees in 2024.
Western Governors University may have to write a $712 million check to the federal government, based on recommendations in an audit report that says the online school’s offerings are ...
Western Governors University is a favorite of the college completion crowd, with a competency-based approach that offers an attractive path to a degree for adult students. But now WGU is nudging its ...
The Example of WGU. Through most of its first decade, Western Governors was able to enroll students on the federal dole through a “demonstration program” that essentially exempted the entirely online ...
The median family income of a student from Western Governors University is $71,200, and 22% come from the top 20 percent.-of students at Western Governors University came from a poor family but ...