No Tuition Increase at Western Governors University in 2010
Online University Holds Undergraduate Tuition at $5,890 per Year
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah , April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While both traditional and online universities across the country are announcing tuition increases for 2010 of as much as 8%, private non-profit Western Governors University, www.wgu.edu, has announced that it will continue to buck the trend by not increasing tuition through the remainder of the year. Tuition at the online, competency-based university is $5,780 per year for most undergraduate programs and has only increased by $200 in the past four years.
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The announcement comes as enrollment in WGU's four colleges — Business, Teachers College, Information Technology, and Healthcare, including Nursing — is growing by approximately 30% per year. The only competency-based university in the U.S., WGU offers more than 50 fully-accredited bachelor's, post-baccalaureate, and master's degrees in high-demand career fields. Flexible and affordable, WGU is ideal for career-minded adults with work and family obligations, and students may begin their studies on the first of any month.
"Providing access to a high-quality, challenging education that's affordable is a primary element of our mission at WGU," said WGU's Vice President of Marketing & Enrollment Patrick Partridge. "For individuals who are considering going back to school to complete a bachelor's or master's degree and advance their careers, WGU is an outstanding value."
Tuition at WGU is comparable to a state college or university and is roughly half the cost of other online universities. In addition to financial aid, WGU offers a number of scholarships in all degree areas. In the past 12 months, the university has awarded more than $2.9 million in scholarships. For more information, go to www.wgu.edu/tuition or call 1-866-225-5948.
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.
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, BearingPoint, Dell, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, HCA, Microsoft, Oracle, Qwest, SunGard Higher Education, Sun Microsystems, and Zions Bank. More information is available at www.wgu.edu.
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