posted message: After our meeting yesterday, I decided to look deeper into WGU. According to the Online Education Database, WGU's graduation rate is 22% (http://oedb.org/rankings/graduation-rate). The UWP 4 year graduation rate is somewhere around 38% (and the lowest in the UW system).
According to a WGU-conducted survey of their graduates, 65% got a raise, promotion, or new job responsibility as a result of their WGU degree (http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/graduate_success). I could not find statistics on the internet for UW-Parkside, but a UW-Stout survey of graduates found a 98% placement rate.
While statistics can be misleading, these numbers indicate that the WGU model may not benefit the targeted students as much as advertised.
