Our study finds that the CBE nursing programs examined may be financially more attainable for students from a lower socio-economic background, thereby opening the way for more Texans to pursue registered nurse (RN) and teaching credentials. Students graduating from the examined nursing CBE program at WGU report making 21 percent more in salary than non-WGU graduates. They also completed their degrees with less debt than those who attended traditional institutions.
Higher Education
Texas A&M is Right to End Women and Gender Studies
Some professors at Texas A&M have issued a letter expressing outrage over the recent decision to eliminate the women’s and gender studies degree programs. Revving up the dramatics, faculty who run the program warn that the university is dismantling this degree track at a “moment of incendiary dispute across cultural, social, and political difference on...
February 3, 2026