The Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE), which allows WICHE member students to enroll in participating, out-of-state two- and four-year public institutions at 150 percent of resident tuition, has added eight new programs in the last year: Northland Pioneer College (AZ) ; the University of California, Merced; California State University, San Marcos; California State University, Northridge; Colorado Mountain College; the University of Hawai‘i Maui College; the University of Hawai‘i West Oahu; and Great Falls College (MT). 

The Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP) allows master’s, graduate certificate, and doctoral students who are residents of the 15 participating states and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to enroll in 320 high-quality programs at 56 participating institutions on a resident tuition basis. WRGP recently added 45 new programs, including several in psychology and counseling (at Arizona State University’s West campus, University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, University of Colorado–Denver, and University of Northern Colorado); two in speech language pathology (Utah State University and University of Washington), and a doctorate of nursing practice (University of Wyoming). In addition, four doctoral programs at the University of California, San Francisco, new to WRGP, have been added: bioengineering (a joint program with UC Berkeley); biological and medical informatics; chemistry and chemical biology; and pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacogenomics. All four programs are funded by the National Institutes of Health, and most doctoral students are fully supported. WRGP now includes more than 100 healthcare-related programs, including those in graduate nursing, public health, mental health and psychology, audiology and speech pathology, biomedical informatics, and a doctorate in occupational therapy.

WRGP’s most recent nominations cycle also attracted many education-related programs, including graduate certificates in online teaching and learning (New Mexico State University) and education technology (Northern Arizona University). Arizona State University’s Tempe campus is offering a professional sciences master’s in solar energy engineering and commercialization through WRGP; and Humboldt State University is offering a master’s in environmental systems.

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