WGU, TechAmerica Join to Help Members Earn IT, Business Degrees Online

Online university offers application fee waiver, tuition discounts, and scholarship opportunities to employees of TechAmerica's 1,000 member companies

SALT LAKE CITY, June 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Western Governors University and TechAmerica have announced a partnership that will make it even more affordable for individuals to earn one of WGU's 13 online bachelor's degrees and four online master's degrees in the Information Technology and Business colleges.

Under the partnership, TechAmerica members are entitled to a $65 application fee waiver, 5 percent off WGU's already affordable tuition, and the opportunity to apply for one of twenty $2,500 WGU TechAmerica Scholarships. These competitive scholarships, which can be used in addition to the 5 percent tuition discount, provide recipients with a $500 tuition credit each term, renewable for up to five terms. Details of the partnership, including information on applying for the scholarships, are available at www.wgu.edu/TechAmerica.

"WGU is valuable partner for TechAmerica, and we are thrilled that our members will be able to take full advantage of the expertise that the University offers in the key fields of Information Technology and Business," said Phil Bond, President and CEO of TechAmerica.

The 17 degree programs eligible for the WGU-TechAmerica partnership are in the College of Business and the College of Information Technology, which incorporates up to nine respected industry certifications.

College of Information Technology

• B.S. Information Technology
• B.S. Information Technology—Networks Administration
• B.S. Information Technology—Networks Design and Management
• B.S. Information Technology—Databases
• B.S. Information Technology—Security
• B.S. Information Technology—Software
• B.S. Health Informatics
• M.S. Information Security and Assurance
• M.B.A. Information Technology Management

College of Business

• B.S. Business Management
• B.S. Business—Human Resource Management
• B.S. Business—Information Technology Management
• B.S. Sales and Sales Management
• B.S. Marketing Management
• B.S. Accounting
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• M.B.A. Information Technology Management
• M.B.A. Healthcare Management

For more information on WGU's degree programs and how to take advantage of WGU's partnership with TechAmerica, and to get in touch with an Enrollment Counselor, visit www.wgu.edu/TechAmerica.

About Western Governors University

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

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 nonprofit, fully online university with students in all 50 states. WGU offers 50 degree programs in Business, Education, Information Technology, and Health Professions, including Nursing. Since its inception in 1997, WGU has grown into a national institution, serving more than 25,000 students. WGU is self-sustaining on tuition, and does not rely on state or national support to fund its operations.  

On June 11, 2010, WGU Indiana, referred to by Governor Mitch Daniels as Indiana's eighth state university, was formed through a partnership with the state. WGU Washington was established by the Washington State Legislature on April 22, 2011.  Subsidiaries of Western Governors University, WGU Indiana and WGU Washington are state-endorsed and offer degree programs that are accredited through Western Governors University.

WGU is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and nationally accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). WGU nursing programs have been accredited by the Commission for Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), and its B.S. in Health Informatics is accredited by CAHIIM (Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education). WGU's Teachers College is the first and only exclusively online provider of teacher education to receive accreditation for its degree programs that lead to teacher licensure from NCATE, the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.

The university has earned the support of more than 20 leading corporations and foundations. They include institutions such as AT&T, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dell, Lilly Endowment, HCA, Hewlett-Packard, Lumina Foundation, Microsoft, Oracle, Qwest, SunGard Higher Education, and Zions Bank. More information is available at www.wgu.edu or by calling 866.225.5948.

About TechAmerica

TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry – the driving force behind productivity growth and jobs creation in the United States and the foundation of the global innovation economy. Representing approximately 1,000 member companies of all sizes from the public and commercial sectors of the economy, it is the industry's largest advocacy organization and is dedicated to helping members' top and bottom lines. TechAmerica is also the technology industry's only grassroots-to-global advocacy network, with offices in state capitals around the United States, Washington, D.C., Europe (Brussels) and Asia (Beijing). It was formed by the merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA). Learn more about TechAmerica at www.techamerica.org.

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