Western Governors University Teaching Programs

Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, Western Governors University is a private not-for-profit institution. WGU is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

Where Is Western Governors University?

Contact details for WGU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	4001 South 700 East Suite 700, Salt Lake City, UT 84107
Phone:	801-274-3280
Website:	www.wgu.edu

How Do I Get Into WGU?

You can apply to WGU online at: wwwforms.wgu.edu/wgu/app/app_step0

Western Governors University has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.

Can I Afford Western Governors University?

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At WGU, approximately 67% of students took out student loans averaging $5,072 a year. That adds up to $20,288 over four years for those students.

Western Governors University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are also 42,164 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 107,952 full-time undergraduates at WGU, 38% are male and 62% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Western Governors University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	3,955
Black or African American	10,925
Hispanic or Latino	12,955
White	64,225
International Students	51
Other Races/Ethnicities	15,841

Online Learning at Western Governors University

There are 87 bachelor’s degree and 87 master’s degree programs available online at WGU. In 2022-2023, 156,935 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at WGU has changed over the last few years.

This school is the most popular in Utah for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2022-2023.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of WGU majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Elementary Education	13%
English & Language Arts Education	18%
Learning Sciences	33%

Western Governors University Teaching Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
Elementary Education	1,802	14	1,010	2,826
Curriculum & Instruction	0	0	2,461	2,461
Educational/Instructional Technology	0	0	1,962	1,962
Learning Sciences	1,782	0	61	1,843
General Special Education	785	0	139	924
Mathematics Education	153	0	701	854
General Educational Leadership & Administration	0	9	468	477
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor	0	39	381	420
English & Language Arts Education	0	0	202	202
Science Education	17	1	172	190
Biology Education	91	0	74	165
Chemistry Education	13	0	32	45
Physics Education	8	0	35	43
Earth Science Teacher Education	18	0	24	42
Social Science Teacher Education	0	0	0	0
Early Childhood Education	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	4,669	63	7,722	12,454

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.