The Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP), which allows master’s, graduate certificate, and doctoral students who are residents of the 15 WICHE states to enroll in high-quality, out-of-state programs at participating institutions on a resident tuition basis, is offering 29 new programs, which will begin enrolling students in fall 2012. The programs include San Francisco State University’s professional science master’s in biotechnology and stem cell science; University of Colorado Denver’s Anschutz Medical Campus’s doctorate in computational bioscience; California State University Monterey Bay’s master’s in coastal and watershed science and policy; New Mexico State University’s master’s in physics with a space physics concentration; University of Hawai’i Manoa’s master’s in Pacific Islands studies; Montana State University Billings’s master’s of health administration; and others. WRGP programs now number 275 at 51 participating institutions, including 80 healthcare-related programs in areas such as graduate nursing, public health, mental health and psychology, audiology and speech pathology, biomedical informatics, occupational therapy, and dental hygiene. A growing number of programs are offered fully or partially online. In fall 2011 WRGP enrolled more than 850 students, who saved an estimated $11.5 million in tuition, and enrollments continue to increase. WICHE staff will disseminate the next call for nominations for new WRGP programs in fall 2012.

June 2012  | Share this on Twitter | Post this on Facebook