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Our graduate certificate programs are designed to help you develop the professional knowledge and academic credentials to advance your career. You’ll be able to set yourself apart in the workforce with certified knowledge of best practices in leadership, marketing, HR and finance methodology and tools—all while earning credit that counts toward a master’s degree.

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Career-focused Graduate Certificate Programs

Criminal Justice Leadership

A graduate certificate in Criminal Justice Leadership provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to rise through the ranks to leadership or executive positions in their organizations within an ever-changing legal environment. Students will cover issues specific to current criminal justice leadership, such as ethics for public administration, leadership development and coaching, leadership and management skills for criminal justice administration, critical analysis of criminal justice administration, and criminal justice policy analysis and socio-cultural systems.

Emergency Management Leadership

A graduate certificate in Emergency Management Leadership provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful leaders or executives in today’s challenging emergency management environment. Students will cover issues specific to emergency management, such as principles of emergency management, legal aspects of emergency management, interagency disaster management, risk management, and leadership and decision making in emergency management.

Fire/Rescue Executive Leadership

A graduate certificate in Fire/Rescue Executive Leadership provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in today’s technical, legal, and public finance climate. Students will cover issues specific to current fire/rescue executive leadership, such as leadership theory and practice, leadership development and coaching, the fire/rescue executive’s role in community risk reduction, the fire/rescue executive’s role in emergency management, and executive leadership for fire/rescue officers

Healthcare Management

A graduate certificate in Healthcare Management prepares students to take on mid-level to executive-level leadership roles in health organizations of all sizes. Students learn emerging industry issues while mastering the ability to plan for and react to the constant changes in the dynamic field of health care. This certificate is perfect for a clinical or administrative healthcare professional who is looking to advance in their career, change the future for their organization, and improve patient care for the industry as a whole.

Human Resources Managment

A Graduate Certificate in Human Resources (HR) provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in today’s global business climate and integrated value chains. Students will cover issues specific to current human resource management, such as principles of human resource management, ethics for business leadership, leadership development and coaching, measuring HR and change impact, and organization development. This program will prepare students to be leaders of human resources on a departmental or corporate executive level.

Instructional Design and Technology (IDT)

A graduate certificate in Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful leaders in today’s either public or private environments as organizations seek to be successful in a global business climate and integrated value chains. Students will cover issues currently facing the field of IDT, such as emerging issues in learning theories for instruction, adults as learners, building cultures of continuous improvement in education, online learning and management, and digital media.

Leadership

A Graduate Certificate in Leadership provides an opportunity for students to examine leadership development, analyze organizational culture, and evaluate work teams. Students consider organizational behavior, influence, diagnosis, culture, and learning, to demonstrate how competency, research, and communication, can best inform leadership strategy and decisions to create a culture of civility.

Marketing

A Graduate Certificate in Marketing provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in today’s global business climate and integrated value chains. Students will cover issues specific to current marketing management, such as strategic marketing, marketing research, new product marketing, business-to-business marketing, and advanced marketing. This program is intended to prepare marketing professionals for advancement to the executive level by providing the tools necessary to enable them to operate within a large organization or as an independent marketing entity.

Project Management

A graduate certificate in Project Management provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in today’s global business climate and integrated value chains. Students will cover issues specific to current project management, such as the principles of project management, research methods, management project teams, project management strategy and tactics, and managing complex projects. This program enables project managers to transition to the roles of leadership and decision-making over multiple project managers and projects.

Public Administration Leadership

A Graduate Certificate in Public Administration focuses on the development, implementation, and management of public programs and policies. This program will prepare students to pursue careers in the private, public, or non-profit sectors in any number of industries including emergency management, criminal justice administration, housing, government, and more.

Social-Emotional Learning

For educators seeking to advance their skill set so they can better accommodate the social and emotional needs of a wide variety of diverse learners, a Social-Emotional (SEL) certificate program is a great option.

This certificate program is designed to equip professional educators with the skills needed to apply the principles of social-emotional learning within the field of K-12 education. This program helps educators gain the knowledge and skills needed to make subject matter engaging and understandable for students from all backgrounds and with varying learning capabilities.

Sport Management

A graduate certificate in Sport Management provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in today’s global business and public financing climate, as well as integrated value chains. Students will cover issues specific to current sport management, such as emerging trends in sport management, public finance and budgeting, leadership development and coaching, and two courses in strategic management in sport.

Earn admission to a master’s program
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Stack your certificate toward your master’s degree.

Gain a competitive edge in the workplace.

“There’s a lot of overlap between my degree and work, so I feel almost everything I’ve learned thus far has been something I can apply in my day-to-day activities. I’m learning a lot about myself and my culture, not to mention how to communicate and honor other people I come across both in work and life.”

~Rebekah Williams, Pearson Academic Advisor, and Master's Student

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I have nothing but amazing things to say about every person I’ve encountered. They are exceptionally supportive, and I can tell that they truly want to see me succeed. They’ve gone above and beyond to help me be the best that I can be—cheering me on from the very beginning—from monthly meetings with my advisor to having access to the Student Support team. Accelerated Pathways has offered me more support than I’ve ever gotten at a traditional four-year university.

~Nailah, Accelerated Pathways Student

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