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Graduate Certificates

What's a certificate?

Wichita State is expanding its number of graduate certificate programs to better meet your educational needs—and career goals.

Certificates are a group of courses, often from different disciplines, that address a special topic—equipping you with additional knowledge and skills that complement your graduate degree and help boost your career.

For example, the graduate certificate in public finance combines courses in economics, public and nonprofit financial management, and budgeting. Once completed, certificates appear on your transcript.

Choose from 30+ graduate certificate programs (with more on the way).
Courses within certificate programs may be stackable toward your degree.
Many certificates may be completed online.

Education

Applied Behavior Analysis
Building-Level Leadership/Principal
Child / Play Therapy
Clinical Mental Health Counselor to School Counselor
Educational Technology (Also available online)
Engineering Education
English Literature and Composition Pedagogy (Also available online)
Higher Education Leadership
Instructional Design in Professional Practice
Interdisciplinary STEM Education
Kodaly Methodology
Literacy
Mentoring and Coaching (Also available online)
School Counselor to Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Special Music Education / Adaptive Music
Superintendency / District Leadership (Also available online)

Health

Business and Management

Business Analytics
Business Fundamentals (Also available online)
Business Fundamentals, Advanced (Also available online)
City & County Management (Also available online)
Economic Development (Also available online)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Human Resource Management Decision Making (Online only)
Human Resource Management Skills (Online only)
Mathematical Foundations of Data Analytics
Nonprofit Management (Also available online)
Public Finance (Also available online)
Supply Chain Management

Science and Engineering

Arts and Humanities

Undergraduate Certificates

What's a certificate?

Wichita State is expanding its number of undergraduate certificate programs to better meet your educational needs—and career goals.

Similar to a minor, certificates are a group of courses that address a special topic — equipping you with additional knowledge and skills that complement your major. However, certificates often combine courses from different disciplines.

For example, the undergraduate certificate in business analytics combines courses from finance, marketing, accounting and economics. Once completed, certificates appear on your transcript.

Choose from 20+ undergraduate certificate programs (with more on the way).
Courses within certificate programs may be stackable toward your degree.
Many certificate courses can count toward your general education requirements.

Education

Health

Aging Studies (Also available online)
Health Management
Health Science (Also available online)
Public Health Science (Also available online)

Business

Science and Engineering

Arts and Humanities

General Topics

Asian Studies
Community Psychology
Global Competency
Human Factors Psychology
Leadership (Also available online)
Social Work and Addiction
Social Work and Child Welfare
Spanish for the Professions
Tilford Diversity Studies (Also available online)

NOTE: For undergraduate certificates, a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.000 must be maintained for all courses comprising the certificate program, and no grade below C is allowed to earn a certificate. For graduate certificates, a cumulative grade point average of 3.000 must be maintained for all courses comprising the certificate program with no grades lower than that which generate 2.0 grade points. Substitutions and transfer work are generally not allowed for certificates.Certificate programs listed below are not eligible for Title IV (federal financial aid) funding unless the certificate is part of the degree program you are pursuing or the certificate has been specified as a Gainful Employment (aid eligible) program.