Save on Your Online Education Through Your Employer

• Advance your education for less. Save thousands of dollars on an already competitive tuition rate. Affordability doesn’t have to prevent you from advancing your education.
• Choose from dozens of convenient, flexible programs. UWA offers more than 70 online programs in business, education, psychology and more that you can complete when and where you have the time. Complete your degree alongside your current professional and personal schedule.
• Earn a prestigious degree. UWA is one of Alabama’s oldest and most prestigious universities.
• Transfer your credits easily. Benefit from UWA’s generous credit transfer policy.
• Learn from expert faculty. Learn from scholars and practitioners to build the skills and knowledge you need to succeed.

• Student must work in a participating Business Connect partner organization that approves participation in the program.
• Student must be pursuing an online degree.
• Student cannot have holds on their student account or owe any balances
• Student must be in good standing with the University.
• The Business Connect Scholarship will not apply to any repeated coursework and will be removed if a student receives a failing grade in a course.
• Meet all Business Connect Deadlines as published on the Connect Calendar.

1. Verify that your employer is a BUSINESS CONNECT partner by checking the list of participating businesses.
2. Apply and be accepted into UWA.
3. Request a Connect Scholarship by completing the Employment Verification Form by the Connect Deadline.
4. Review the Connect Calendar to make sure you understand all scholarship deadlines. Connect programs have special registration deadlines that are earlier than regular deadlines. Participants will only receive the scholarship for the course(s) they are registered for by the Connect Deadline.

AACOP (Alabama Association of Chiefs of Police)
A-KEEP (Alabama-Korea Education and Economic Partnership)
Alfa Insurance
All in Credit Union
Birmingham Fire and Rescue
Birmingham Police Department
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
DCH Healthcare
Guardian Credit Union
Hueytown Police Department
Irondale Police Department
Jefferson County Sheriff Department
Montgomery Fire Department
Ochsner Health
Personnel Board of Jefferson County
Russell Medical Center
The City of Leeds
United Bank
United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile and Central Alabama
Vestavia Hills Police
YMCA of Central New York

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