"WebGPU" is a misnomer, one nice thing about it is that it's not actually married to the web. Dawn, the C++ implementation used in Chrome, and wgpu, the Rust implementation used in Firefox, are both standalone libraries that you can link into a native application and use their portable abstraction without touching Javascript or Electron or any other web tech.

It is maintained by the w3c, not used extensively by the businesses that will employ the students, it's easy to go from OpenGL to Vulkan. I can reconsider it and happily use it if I have more arguments in favor of it, but from what I see it doesn't seem groundbreaking and adds a layer of complexity in comparison to OpenGL 4.x without really improving the learning curve or the capabilities.

It is driven by Web browsers requirements, anything beyond that are non portable extensions.