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Graduate Certificates
A Graduate Certificate is an integrated group of courses that is designed to have a very clear and focused academic topic or competency as its subject area. Often, a Graduate Certificate may meet a clearly defined educational need of a constituency group, such as continuing education or accreditation for a particular profession; respond to a specific state mandate; or provide a basic competency in an emerging, usually interdisciplinary, area. A Certificate is not a graduate degree program (it is typically between 9 and 15 credits), but it does provide the student formal recognition of the mastery of a clearly defined academic topic.
Graduate Certificates are becoming an increasingly important component of the total range of graduate educational opportunities offered by a modern, comprehensive research university. Often, Certificates are pursued by students who are also pursuing a graduate degree in a traditional discipline, or who may already have earned one or more graduate degrees. Programs or groups of faculty who wish to establish a new Graduate Certificate at the University of Kentucky should consult the Guidelines for Graduate Certificates.
Although formal admission to a specific Graduate Certificate is handled by the Director of the Certificate, a student seeking to pursue a Graduate Certificate must also apply to and be enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Kentucky. Some Certificates may require concurrent enrollment in a degree-seeking program of study, however, many students will be enrolled only in the Graduate Certificate program of study. More information on admission requirements and specific plans of study for a particular Graduate Certificate can be obtained via the contacts below. Note that admission to or completion of a Graduate Certificate does not guarantee subsequent admission to a graduate degree program; that is a separate process, and different criteria prevail.
The University of Kentucky currently offers Graduate Certificates in the following areas:
Anatomical Sciences |
Applied Statistics |
Assistive and Rehabilitation Technology |
Bioactive Interfaces and Devices |
Clinical and Translational Science |
Clinical Research Skills |
Cognitive Science |
College Teaching and Learning |
Computational Fluid Dynamics |
Developmental Disabilities |
Distance Education for EDC |
Distance Education for EDS |
Gender and Women's Studies |
Gerontology |
Global Health |
Health Communication |
Human-Technology Interaction |
Informatics |
International Education |
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Lean Systems |
Maternal and Child Health |
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Middle and Secondary School Reading |
Music Theory Pedagogy |
Nursing Studies |
Orff Schulwerk |
Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Physiology Teaching |
Public Health Management |
Public Health Nursing |
Rehabilitation Counseling |
Reproductive Laboratory Science |
Risk Sciences |
School Social Work |
School Technology Leadership |
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Stream & Watershed Science |
Teaching Nursing |
Vocal Pedagogy |
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