In a press release this past Wednesday,

[url:http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/wgu_milestone_6-4-08.asp]enrollment at WGU has now passed 10,000[/url]! 

I've tried the URL a couple of ways with no luck. 

Let's try this... http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/wgu_milestone_6-4-08.asp

It doesn't say whether they mean 10,000 enrollments ever or 10,000 currently enrolled.  Anyway, I thought the part about there being skepticism that it could be accredited was entertaining.  Sure accreditation is largely private, but not entirely by any stretch -- and either way, when 19 governors want something you probably don't want to be the thing standing in their way.

-=Steve=- 

Early in its history, there was a time when WGU looked like it WAS headed for failure.  Enrollment was low as the school tried to figure out how to convince people they actually could get a worthwhile degree via distance learning from some place called Western Governors University.  Grants from private industries and foundations saw them through the lean times.  To their credit, they have managed to expand their program offerings and enrollment. 

 I take their press release to mean that they currently have 10,000 students enrolled.   While that sounds like a lot, it really isn't when compared to some of the other DL schools like UoP or Penn Foster College, which both have hundreds of thousands of students.  I remember a time when WGU had only a couple of hundred students enrolled, and critics were questioning the school's viability.

Fair enough.  Hey, I wonder whether they'll ever offer doctoral programs?

-=Steve=-