The campus will be up and running in the fall and WGU courses are accredited through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. WGU has about 19,000 students and close to 7,000 students have graduated in the last two years — numbers that experts say are comparable to a large state school in Indiana. Students enroll from all across the country, but, in years past, Indiana only averaged about 200 students.
Zakiya Wright, 52, of Indianapolis says the program would be ideal for her hectic work schedule.
“I’ve been telling myself for years that I’m going back to school,” says Wright, a certified nursing assistant who dropped out of college in 1985. “If I can get the degree, I will make more money but I have never been interested in attending classes with 19- and 20-year-old kids.”
Wright says the drive has always been there to go back, but a lack of money and time have been factors in the past.
