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Graduate Certificates GE = Gainful Employment information available

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

Building-Level Leadership/Principal^GE
Child / Play Therapy
District Leadership / Superintendency^GE (Also available online)
Educational Technology (Also available online)
Engineering Education
Higher Education Leadership
Interdisciplinary STEM Education^GE
Literacy

Health

Aging Studies
Functional Aging
Health Administration (Online only)
Public Health (Also available online)

Business and Management

Business Analytics
City & County Management
Economic Development
Enterprise Systems and Supply Chain Management
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Human Resource Management Decision Making (Online only)
Human Resource Management Skills (Online only)
Nonprofit Management (Also available online)
Public Finance (Also available online)

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.

Business

Business Analytics

Engineering

Sustainable Materials and Design

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.