What are Certificate Programs?
Certificate programs are groups of classes designed to help you gain career expertise, enhance your resume or update your skills. Each program varies, but generally you can earn a certificate within one year. Course schedules are designed to meet the needs of working professionals. Anyone who meets the prerequisite requirements may take individual courses without enrolling in the certificate program.
Certificate programs are designed to challenge participants to explore a major field or theme in public health. Our classes are unique in that we invite seasoned and nascent professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, US nationals and foreign nationals to come together and apply their respective experiences and perspectives to the topic at hand. Case studies, class discussion, team projects, and highly interactive lectures provide a springboard for meaningful and enduring lessons and learning. Each program is 4 weeks long and meets Monday through Friday, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm. Upon successful completion of a certificate program, participants are awarded a BUSPH certificate signed by the Dean, the Department Chair, and certificate faculty.
Certificate programs are educational programs offered through places like vocational schools, trade schools, community colleges, and online. They are designed to train people for specific jobs with focus on the training needed to work in various areas. Unlike training that results in college diplomas, certificate programs usually don’t require people to study traditional liberal arts or science courses. Instead most courses in these programs will teach the skills needed for work in a specific field. There are some exceptions to this, and some certificate programs offer the option to also earn a college degree, usually an Associate of Arts, by taking some extra classes. There are numerous certificate programs for many different fields of work. They might train people in medical technology, auto repair, early childhood education, or in computer programming. Length of any of these programs is variable. Most take no longer than a year, and some can take a much shorter period of time. A nur
Continuing Studies’ certificate programs are short-term, credit programs of study that are designed to run at a student s own pace. Students must apply to the certificate program, but, registration for the courses is on a semester-to-semester basis. There is no set cost for a particular certificate program, rather, costs are determined per credit per course each semester. Once a student has completed the necessary courses in a certificate he/she must fill out a certificate award petition. In about 4-6 weeks the certificate should be mailed to them. Students enrolled in a certificate program can receive financial aid; please call the Financial Aid Office at (978) 934-4220. Also, students enrolled in an undergraduate certificate program can transfer one course from another university into the certificate, if approved by the coordinator. In order to do this, a student must submit a petition form to Continuing Studies. Substitution of courses may be possible if approved by the certificate
First, let us understand that any good definition will encompass programs, which operate throughout the land under many different names. There are certificates, diplomas, PDPs, COGS and CAGS, and a few others to boot. Generally speaking, we will refer to relatively short-term academic programs, which may lead to a degree but do not constitute a degree, and are usually focussed in a certain specialization in a discipline or across disciplinary lines. The components of a certificate program may carry graduate credit, undergraduate credit, or no academic credit. As a provisional taxonomy for certificate programs, the following terms are proposed: Graduate certificate programs: A graduate certificate program is one that (a) requires that the student have a bachelors degree prior to entry into the program; (b) that the content of the program be at the graduate level and may require prior undergraduate course content as a prerequisite; and (c) the program is also related to a graduate degree
