LR Partners
The LR Partners program promotes partnerships with local businesses, agencies and school and government entities to provide their employees opportunities for graduate education at a discounted rate. The program is available to employees in partner companies or agencies who are accepted into a participating graduate program.
To take advantage of the discount a student must submit an application for admission and include their employer's name in the application.
By offering a discounted tuition rate on graduate courses, your employees will have the opportunity to enhance their professional skills and advance their careers.
Program Overview
Graduate School Tuition Discounts
Employees or members of participating businesses or organizations receive a 10 percent discount toward graduate school tuition.
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Participating Companies & Agencies
- Access Family Services
- Affinity Living Group
- Alex Lee, Inc.
- Amorem/Caldwell Hospice
- Appalachian College Association
- Appalachian Community Services
- Asheville-Buncombe Technical College
- Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce
- Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity
- Asheville Grown Business Alliance
- Asheville Independent Restaurants Association
- Association of Fundraising Professionals
- B Local Asheville + WNC
- Black Mountain Counseling Center
- Belk, Inc.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC
- Big Homie/Little Homie
- Biltmore Company
- Biltmore Farms
- Black Mountain Academy
- Blue West
- Blue Ridge Health
- Blue Ridge Healthcare
- Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County
- Brother Wolf Animal Rescue
- Brumit Restaurant Group
- Buncombe County
- Burke County Public Schools
- Cabarrus Health Alliance
- Caldwell County
- Caldwell Hospice/Amorem
- Caldwell Memorial Hospital/UNC Healthcare
- Carolina Caring
- Carolina Moon Hospitality
- Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy
- Carolina Outreach, LLC
- Carolina Village
- Catawba County Chamber of Commerce
- Catawba County Government
- Catawba County Schools
- Catawba County Truth & Reconciliation Committee
- Catawba Valley Medical Center
- Children First / Communities in Schools of Buncombe County
- Children's Hope Alliance
- City of Asheville
- City of Hendersonville
- City of Hickory
- City of Lenoir
- Community Care of Western North Carolina
- Community Foundation of Henderson County
- Conserving Carolina
- CooperRiis
- David E. Looper Company (DEL)
- Duke Energy
- Eaton Corporation
- Elevate Wellness and Recovery
- Eliada Homes
- EmergeOrtho
- Epworth
- Family Preservation Services of North Carolina, Inc.
- Fairfield County Sheriff's Office
- Forsyth Technical Community College
- French Broad Chocolates
- Frye Regional Medical Center
- Girl Scouts Peaks to Piedmont
- Goodale School and Recovery Community (formerly Montford Hall)
- Grand Bohemian Hotel
- Green Built Alliance
- Green Opportunities
- Goodwill Industries of WNC
- Habitat for Humanity of Catawba Valley
- Haywood County Chamber of Commerce
- Helpmate
- Hickory Public Schools
- Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company (HSM)
- Hickory Young Professionals
- HomeTrust Bank
- Homeward Bound of Western NC
- Ingles Markets
- Irene Wortham Center
- JBS
- LEAF Community Arts
- Liberty Corner Enterprise
- Mandara Hospitality
- MANNA Food Bank
- McDowell County Chamber of Commerce
- Mental Health of America, SC Chapter
- Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc. (MIRCI)
- Mission Health
- The Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC)
- Mountain BizWorks
- Mountain Credit Union
- Mountain True
- NC Writers Network
- Newton-Conover City Schools
- Non-Profit Forum of Henderson County
- Novant Health-W-S
- Outward Bound
- Palmetto Place
- Pardee Hospital
- Pathways for the Future, Inc.
- Peoples Bank
- Pisgah Legal Services
- Real Recovery of Asheville, Inc.
- Red Oak Recovery
- Sauna House
- Sherrill Furniture Company
- SPARC Foundation
- Shurtape Technologies
- Solstice East/Asheville Academy for Girls
- St. Gerard House
- The Franklin School
- Transportation Insight
- United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County
- Vaya Health
- Virtelle Hospitality
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
- Western North Carolina Community Health Services
- Western North Carolina Human Resource Association
- Western Regional Education Service Alliance
- YWCA of Asheville
- YMCA of Catawba Valley
- YMCA of Western North Carolina
- Zelandia Capital