Robert Mendenhall, President of WGU

Your education is one of the most important endeavors of your life. It can open doors to better opportunities that otherwise might be closed.
We commit to provide you an education based on real-world competencies that you’ll need in the work place that will make you successful when you graduate. WGU’s competency-based degrees allow well qualified students to complete their education and graduate more quickly, and therefore less expensively, than traditional systems that insists on prerequisites and a certain number of credit hours regardless of the student’s background. You will receive personal attention through our mentoring system that will help you be successful at WGU. We really consider our students to be our customers, and we are focused on helping our students and making them successful.
NBC News Reports on WGU
"The dreams of 19 governors have become [WGU Grad Angie Gonzalez's] dream fulfilled."
Tom Costello
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
In the News
- "While such programs [like Western Governors University] are now the exception, I want them to be the norm."
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan



