University reference
Western Governors University
Western Governors University, established in 1997, is an active ROR organization in Salt Lake City, US. ROR classifies the organization under education. This profile preserves public aliases, acronyms, external identifiers, location details and organization relationships supplied by the Research Organization Registry, then links the record to other organizations in the same city and country and to recorded airports in the same city. It is a directory profile, not a university ranking, quality assessment, admissions guide or statement of endorsement by ROR or DataOfWorld.
Key facts
- ROR identifier
- https://ror.org/0210dff90
- Country
- US
- City
- Salt Lake City
- Administrative area
- Utah
- Website
- https://www.wgu.edu
- Established
- 1997
- Organization types
- education
- Acronyms
- WGU
- External identifiers
grid grid.441373.6 isni 0000 0000 8681 2843 wikidata Q7987876 - Organization relationships
- Latitude
- 40.76078
- Longitude
- -111.89105
- ROR last modified
- 2024-12-11
ROR identity context
Names, identifiers and relationships
These identifiers describe the organization record and do not imply ranking or endorsement.
| Acronyms | WGU |
|---|---|
| GRID identifiers | grid.441373.6 |
| ISNI identifiers | 0000 0000 8681 2843 |
| WIKIDATA identifiers | Q7987876 |
Wikidata structured context
Published identifiers and revision
Only allowlisted structured claims are used. Wikipedia prose and Wikimedia media are not copied.
| QID | Q7987876 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revision | 2511257873 | ||||||||||||
| Modified | 2026-06-27T22:50:21Z | ||||||||||||
| Structured label | Western Governors University | ||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.wgu.edu | ||||||||||||
| Country QID | Q30 | ||||||||||||
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OpenAlex institution metadata
Works and research-topic context
Institution-level directory statistics only; they are not rankings, quality judgments or endorsements.
Published topics: Online and Blended Learning, Higher Education Learning Practices, Online Learning and Analytics, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Higher Education and Employability, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Higher Education Research Studies, Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
Annual indicator
Institution works indexed by OpenAlex
38.00 works2024
Institution-level yearly works counts in OpenAlex; not a ranking or quality measure. Values retain the source period and unit.
View source data
| Period | works | Source flag | Confidentiality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38.00 works | — | — |
| 2023 | 45.00 works | — | — |
| 2022 | 49.00 works | — | — |
| 2021 | 50.00 works | — | — |
| 2020 | 33.00 works | — | — |
| 2019 | 32.00 works | — | — |
| 2018 | 41.00 works | — | — |
| 2017 | 44.00 works | — | — |
| 2016 | 27.00 works | — | — |
| 2015 | 14.00 works | — | — |
| 2014 | 21.00 works | — | — |
| 2013 | 11.00 works | — | — |
| 2012 | 6.00 works | — | — |
| 2011 | 4.00 works | — | — |
| 2010 | 7.00 works | — | — |
Field-level provenance
Sources for this profile
Dates and licenses apply to the specific facts and series supplied by each source.
Research Organization Registry
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-20
- Dataset version
- dbdfb9b8dad3
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- Research Organization Registry (ROR)
DataOfWorld deterministic university profile template
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-20
- Dataset version
- university-profile-v1
- License
- Original DataOfWorld text
- Attribution
- DataOfWorld
Wikidata structured data
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-31
- Dataset version
- 85ab949694e9
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- Wikidata structured data; DataOfWorld preserves QID and revision metadata.
OpenAlex metadata
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-31
- Dataset version
- 555988127656
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- OpenAlex; metadata only, no full text or abstracts are published.
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