As a Healthcare Professional, Your Focus is Quality
A $2,500 Healthcare Quality Scholarship Can Help You Lead the Way
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A $2,500 Scholarship Opportunity for Healthcare Professionals Just Like You
Healthcare Quality Week is a time to focus on nurses and healthcare professionals who are making a difference by delivering high-quality care. Healthcare Quality Week is October 15-21, 2023 but we're celebrating for the rest of the year! At WGU, we're recognizing this special time by spotlighting the degrees that can help you be a quality nursing or healthcare leader AND by offering a scholarship that can make your journey to that degree more affordable.
- A reputation you can count on. A degree from WGU could help you land a better job. Award-winning, accredited online programs at WGU are created to make sure you have a reputable degree.
- Affordable tuition. WGU's low tuition is charged per six-month term, not per credit. Students also see an average salary increase of over $22,200 just two years after graduation, according to a 2023 Harris Poll.
- Flexibility just for you. WGU's competency-based approach lets you move through courses as quickly as you master material. You're in control of your education.
- Scholarships available. WGU is offering the $2,500 Healthcare Quality Scholarship for nursing and healthcare-degree seekers. These scholarships are designed to help students who are eager to advance their careers in the healthcare field—they know a WGU degree will position them to make a positive difference in the lives of patients and clients by delivering high-quality care.
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"WGU is about fundamental change in the way higher education is delivered. It's right, it's real, and it's efficient. It's what higher education will require to succeed in the future."
Michael O. Leavitt,
Former U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services
Former Governor of Utah
“Our collaborative partnership with WGU, and its innovative nursing programs, is an important addition to our programs to prepare individuals to enter the nursing profession.”
Linda Burnes Bolton,
Vice President of Nursing and Chief Nursing Officer
Cedars-Sinai
"WGU helped pioneer competency-based education. Coupling this with online courses has resulted in a nimble, contemporaneous education process that prepares its graduates to succeed while aiding the rapid evolution of the delivery of healthcare."
Paul Handel, M.D.
M.D., Member of the Board of Directors
Medecision, Inc.
“Western Governors University students are truly versatile, able to learn efficiently and effectively, able to master change at the same pace as their company, and are self-motivated.”
John Steele,
Sr. Vice President, Human Resources
HCA Healthcare
Accredited, Respected,
Recognized™
One important measure of a degree’s value is the reputation of the university where it was earned. When employers, industry leaders, and academic experts hold your alma mater in high esteem, you reap the benefits of that respect. WGU is a pioneer in reinventing higher education for the 21st century, and our quality has been recognized.
Bachelor's Degrees in Nursing and Healthcare
Nursing – B.S. (RN to BSN online)
Nursing (Prelicensure) – B.S. (Available in select states)
Health Information Management – B.S.
Health and Human Services – B.S.
Healthcare Administration – B.S. (from the School of Business)
Certificate Programs in Nursing and Healthcare
Master's Degrees in Nursing and Healthcare
Nursing - Education (BSN to MSN) – M.S.
Nursing – Leadership and Management (BSN to MSN) – M.S.
Nursing – Nursing Informatics (BSN to MSN) – M.S.
Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner (BSN to MSN) – M.S. (Available in select states)
Nursing – Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (BSN to MSN) – M.S. (Available in select states)
Nursing – Education (RN to MSN) – M.S.
Nursing – Leadership and Management (RN to MSN) – M.S.
Nursing – Nursing Informatics (RN to MSN) – M.S.
Master of Healthcare Administration
MBA Healthcare Administration (from the School of Business)
Education Technology & Instructional Design – M.Ed. (from the School of Education)
Post-Master's Certificates
Nursing Education—Post-Master's Certificate
Nursing Leadership and Management—Post-Master's Certificate
Family Nurse Practitioner—Post-Master's Certificate
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner—Post-Master's Certificate
Earn Your Degree for about Half the Cost of Other Universities*
You pay tuition per six-month term, not per course or credit. So when you move faster through your courses, you also lower your total bill!
WGU students pay about half the tuition,* and end up with half the debt of the national average.**
- Low, flat-rate tuition.
- Graduate faster and with less debt.
- Financial aid and scholarships available.
- Online education with supportive faculty.
- VA and military benefits accepted.
- Great return on investment.
- All course materials for a low, flat fee.
*WGU average annual bachelor’s tuition rates are 53% lower than the national average, compared to national rates reported by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems in 2023. WGU average rate does not include rates for WGU Bachelor of Science, Nursing Prelicensure program.
**WGU undergraduate students have approximately half the debt at graduation compared to the national average, according to the Institute for College Access and Success (2022).
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