Last Chance to Enter the 'Make a Great WGU Commercial Video Contest'

First public voting phase for scholarship contest to begin July 16

SALT LAKE CITY, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With one week left in the contest submission phase, Western Governors University, www.wgu.edu, is calling for students to submit their 60-second video commercials demonstrating why WGU is "A Smarter Way to Learn."  The "Make a Great WGU Commercial Video Contest," hosted by the online university, will post entries on the WGU website, with the initial public voting phase running July 16-25. More than $12,000 in scholarships and prizes will be awarded to the top five entries, selected by a combination of WGU staff and popular vote.  

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The contest is open to current and prospective WGU students and entries can be submitted through the official contest page, www.wgu.edu/videocontest. All entries must include the contest URL somewhere in the video, and the deadline for all submissions is July 15. The top 10 finalists will be posted to the contest website on July 27, and a final public voting phase will go through August 10. Contest winners will be announced August 13, 2010.

The top five entries will receive rewards including a Grand Prize valued up to $7,500 (payable at $1,500 every six-month term enrolled, for up to five terms) and a $500 cash prize. Second and third place prizes are $3,000 and $2,000 scholarships, with two runner-up prizes of $100 Amazon.com gift certificates. For official contest rules or to enter, please visit http://www.wgu.edu/videocontest.

About Western Governors University (WGU)

"[WGU is] the best relatively cheap university you've never heard of."– TIME magazine

Recently featured on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, WGU is the only university in the U.S. offering competency-based degree programs and the only non-profit, fully online university in the country. WGU offers degree programs in Business, Education, Information Technology, and Healthcare Professions, including Nursing. Since its inception in 1997, WGU has grown into a national institution, serving more than 19,000 students in all 50 states.

As a non-profit with a mission to make higher education accessible, WGU strives to keep tuition affordable — tuition for most undergraduate and graduate programs is less than $6,000 per year and has increased less than $200 in the past four years. WGU is self-sustaining on tuition, and does not rely on state or national support to fund its operations.  

WGU is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and nationally accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). WGU's Teachers College is the first and only exclusively online provider of teacher education to receive accreditation from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). WGU nursing programs have been accredited by the Commission for Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

The university has earned the support of more than 20 leading corporations and foundations. They include institutions such as AT&T, Dell, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, HCA, Microsoft, Oracle, Qwest, SunGard Higher Education, Sun Microsystems, American Express, and Zions Bank. More information is available at www.wgu.edu.

SOURCE Western Governors University

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