West Georgia Technical College Now Part of Transfer Agreement with WGU
CARROLLTON, GA (August 21, 2025) — As part of its membership in Community Colleges of Appalachia (CCA), West Georgia Technical College has announced that its graduates and employees can now more easily further their education through accredited online Western Governors University (WGU). Representatives from CCA and WGU signed a transfer institution agreement at CCA’s recent conference in Asheville, North Carolina.
WGU is an accredited, nonprofit online university offering more than 80 bachelor’s and master’s degrees and certificate programs in business, technology, health care and K-12 education. WGU’s asynchronous competency-based programs are designed to fit into busy work and home schedules and create pathways to opportunity.
The common goal of the agreement is to provide CCA member-institution graduates and employees with flexible, personalized learning pathways to higher education and professional development through WGU’s competency-based online programs. The agreement will also formalize the transfer of applicable credits between CCA members and WGU, so graduates of member schools will likely not need to repeat coursework as they pursue bachelor’s degrees through WGU.
Graduates, staff and faculty of CCA member schools will also be able to apply for specially designated Learn Where You Live Scholarships valued up to $3,000 each. Tuition is around $4,000 per six-month term for most WGU bachelor’s degree programs, and students can take as many classes as they wish within a term with the consent of their assigned program mentor.
“This partnership is especially meaningful for our small and rural colleges, where access to affordable, flexible bachelor’s degree programs is often out of reach,” said Dr. Kevin Boys, executive director of CCA. “WGU’s model helps eliminate those barriers and opens doors for both students and employees to continue their education without leaving their communities.”
The CCA boasts 85 member institutions spanning from Mississippi to New York. In Georgia, its members include West Georgia Technical College, Georgia Northwestern Technical College, Chattahoochee Technical College, Lanier Technical College, and Athens Technical College.
“This agreement with WGU gives our graduates and employees even more opportunity to advance their education,” said Dr. Julie Post, president of West Georgia Technical College. “We are always looking for ways to expand access and remove barriers, and this partnership ensures that the hard work our students put in at WGTC will carry forward as they pursue their bachelor’s degrees.”
To learn more about the partnership visit www.wgu.edu/cca. For information about CCA, visit www.ccofapp.org.
About West Georgia Technical College
West Georgia Technical College, with campuses in Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, and Troup counties and class sites in Heard and Meriwether counties, offers more than 120 associate degree, diploma, and technical certificate programs of study. A unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, West Georgia Tech is one of the largest of the state’s 22 technical colleges. For more information, please visit www.westgatech.edu.
About Community Colleges of Appalachia
CCA is a voluntary association of public community colleges serving the common interests of member colleges and their communities through programs and services responsive to the unique cultural, geographic, and economic development challenges facing the region. CCA builds greater awareness among the general public, the higher education community, regional and national funding sources, and others of the vital contributions now being made by the community colleges of Appalachia in responding to the needs of their communities and of the potential for additional resources to expand and enhance these efforts. Learn more at www.ccofapp.org.
