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WGU is nonprofit. I also can't find anything suggesting they are predatory, ill-regulated, or unstable. I also can't find anything suggesting that their students have high debt levels. Also, unlike ITT Tech and similar schools, WGU is regionally accredited. ITT Tech and the like, if accredited, are usually nationally accredited. That can be confusing, because in most fields national accreditation would be the best, but for colleges the regional accreditation is the one that counts. Check the accreditation of nearly any top school (UC, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Caltech, and so on) and it is regional, not national. A couple years ago, the US Department of Education's Federal Student Aid office did ask WGU to repay a bunch of loans, ruling that WGU's distance learning did not meet interaction requirements between faculty and students to be eligible. That was later reversed, with the government concluding that the rules at the time were unclear in regard to distance learning in WGU has been trying to follow them in good faith. The government clarified the rules, and determined that WGU did in fact meet them, and the loans stood. I don't see how you can put them in the same category as ITT Tech. |