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March 31, 2013Article from "Fast Company" ranking WGU number 28 for "showing public schools another way to do business."
September 30, 2011Article from the "Washington Monthly" describing how "by offering adults an education that is faster, cheaper, and better than the likes of Kaplan, Phoenix, or Capella, the nonprofit Western Governors…
July 17, 2009Reporter Tom Costello of "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" takes a close look at WGU as a flexible, cost-effective, accredited university for working adults who want to return to college to improve…
November 17, 2008Article from "Time" magazine describing WGU. The entire title of this article is "Go Western, Young Man. The best relatively cheap university you've never hear of. (Hint: it's only online)."
August 27, 2012Article from "Bloomberg Businessweek" describing the underlying principle of WGU, to "help adult students."