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WGU Indiana Sees Growth, But State Still Lags In Number Of College Grads

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The Indiana arm of Western Governors University has grown more than ten-fold in the past four years, according to numbers released by school administrators.

260 students were enrolled four years ago. Today, more than 3,600 take classes from the online, nonprofit state university.

Chancellor Allison Barber says a new scholarship program could grow that number further.

"In celebration of our fourth anniversary, WGU Indiana just launched [its] largest scholarship offering. And it's $400,000 in scholarship money," Barber says.

The scholarships will be available for new undergraduate or graduate students enrolling within the next 12 months.

Still, numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau show only 22 percent of Hoosiers, or about one-in-five adults, has a bachelor’s degree or higher. That places Indiana in the bottom ten states for college degree completion nationally.

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