Columbus, Ohio • The all-online, nonprofit Western Governors University is creating its eighth state affiliate through a partnership with Ohio, where officials cheered the arrangement and downplayed an unfavorable federal audit of the school that was released last fall.
WGU Ohio launched this week, opening the door for participating students to benefit from the state’s need-based college grant program. It expects to start enrolling students in August.
Several thousand Ohio students already attend or graduated from Salt Lake City-based WGU, which has 98,000 students nationwide and offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in four fields: business, teaching, information technology, and nursing and other health professions.