About Western Governors University

Recently featured on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, WGU is the only university in the U.S. offering competency-based degree programs and the only non-profit, fully online university in the country. WGU offers degree programs in Business, Education, Information Technology, and Healthcare Professions, including Nursing. Since its inception in 1997, WGU has grown into a national institution, serving more than 18,000 students in all 50 states.

WGU is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and nationally accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). WGU's Teachers College is the first and only exclusively online provider of teacher education to receive accreditation from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). WGU nursing programs have been accredited by the Commission for Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

The university has earned the support of more than 20 leading corporations and foundations. They include institutions such as AT&T, BearingPoint, Dell, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, HCA, Microsoft, Oracle, Qwest, SunGard Higher Education, Sun Microsystems, and Zions Bank. More information is available at www.wgu.edu.

The following pages provide additional information on how to transfer your college credits and earn your college degree from Western Governors University:

• Transfer Credit from StraighterLine Courses to Western Governors University
  Western Governors University accepts most of StraighterLine’s college-level courses for full credit.
• See how StraighterLine courses map to different college degrees offered by Western Governors University

If you have questions about enrolling at Western Governors University and transferring your StraighterLine credits speak with one of our enrollment counselors at 1-866-225-5948.

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For students who have enrolled in a SL course prior to February 1, 2012, that course will not be subject to the new WGU proctoring policy so long as the course is completed by March 31, 2012.

StraighterLine will indicate on its transcript whether the final exam for a course has been proctored, and will note where a course falls within the grandfathering policy and therefore not requiring a proctored final.

Note – Writing courses do not have a timed final and therefore proctoring is not applicable.