What to know about partnering with WGU.

For more than 20 years, WGU has focused on unlocking opportunities and removing barriers to quality, access, and outcomes across the education-to-opportunity lifecycle. WGU is known for its flexible learning architecture, learning support systems, and job-relevant curriculum, all of which provide a better experience for working learners. Because our programs are designed around the realities experienced by a “21^st century learner,” in which work, family obligations, and life events are in constant motion, employees together with their employers see higher levels of satisfaction and better outcomes in their learning and development goals.

WGU’s offerings create pathways to opportunities for all employees—from frontline employees to senior leaders. Our college-readiness programs prepare employees academically, socially, and emotionally to enter or re-enter postsecondary learning. Our advanced graduate programs are geared to seasoned leaders.

Our approach is built on the concept of stackability—the ability of credentials to build on each other as part of a career-long learning loop. Stackable credentials allow a learner’s education to accumulate incremental value along the learning journey, improving access to both upskilling and reskilling opportunities.

At WGU, we design programs that are scalable, industry relevant, and flexible with little out-of-pocket cost to employees that allow them to focus on their immediate job responsibilities while also pursuing their program.

Our approach involves an initial assessment of your organization’s learning and workforce development objectives coupled with the identification of needed career development pathways and the associated WGU programs supporting these pathways.

We have an experienced team of advisors dedicated to helping your employees find the right program for their professional goals as well as program specialists providing implementation, internal communication, and reporting and monitoring support to your organization’s learning and development division.

As digital transformation continues to accelerate the pace of change across virtually all industries, investing in the learning and development of employees is becoming a universal business imperative. An organization’s future growth potential, customer experience, service quality, and ability to innovate and thrive are now more than ever inseparably tied to the pace by which executives close the skills gap among their workforce though upskilling and reskilling.

For this reason, WGU works with organizations that span the private and nonprofit spectrum—from large retailers to large school districts, from multi-state healthcare systems to large community college systems, from local government to key financial institutions. 

Here are a few of the organizations we work with:

Retail (Kroger, Best Buy); Health Care (HCA Healthcare, Sentara, University of Vermont Health Network, Providence Health & Service); Airlines (Alaska Airlines, JetBlue); State & Local Government (City of Dayton, City of Memphis, Las Vegas, State of Texas); Finance & Insurance (Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Farmers Insurance, First Merchants Bank); Community Colleges & Systems (California Community College System, Ivy Tech Community College, Kentucky Community & Technical College System ); School Districts (Cincinnati Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools)