Competency-based, affordable, portable, and relevant to today's workforce,
WGU offers active-duty military personnel, their spouses and children, and veterans the opportunity to further their careers with higher education in a way that fits their unique and often unpredictable circumstances.
"I am truly thankful for what this school has allowed me to accomplish," said Dion Brown of Las Vegas, Nevada, who enrolled in WGU's B.S. Business – Information Technology program in 2016 while deployed at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan with the U.S. Air Force. He completed that degree
and a subsequent M.S. Management and Leadership
while on active duty.
Like many WGU students, Brown's path to higher education wasn't traditional—attempting college shortly after finishing high school but quitting after three semesters. Years later, while serving in Operation Resolute Support, he "found a fire within myself" to go back and earn his bachelor's degree.
"If I could overcome all the challenges that come with being in a hostile land, away from friends and family, I could go back to school." He just needed a school that could accommodate his deployment.
He recalled a conversation he had had a few years earlier with his father—himself a WGU graduate—about how the
competency-based model enabled him to complete courses as quickly as he could learn the material, and to do it all on his own schedule.
"I was pleased to find that the curriculum I was engaged in at WGU was directly relevant to my profession," Brown said. "As I advanced in rank and my professional military education, the management techniques and theories I was studying at WGU helped me immensely."
Currently, WGU serves nearly 15,000 active-duty or veteran students and 900 military spouses or dependents.
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