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Expand your career prospects by earning a professional certificate in a specialized field. In just five graduate courses, you can gain skills to complement your professional experience.
Most of the following professional certificates can be completed as online certificates. Select a certificate to learn more:
If you do not see a field that meets your needs, use the course search to find individual courses in your field.
A certificate demonstrates to employers that you have acquired a certain body of knowledge in a field. The courses for each certificate give you the opportunity to gain a currently relevant background for a field or profession. And the educational quality of the Harvard Extension School is widely recognized by employers.
Tuition for each course, which must be taken for graduate credit, is about $2,000. The exact tuition is listed in each course description.
If you are not in an Extension School degree program, you are not eligible for federal or state aid. However, you may be eligible for scholarship funds, including Lowell Scholarships for Boston-area middle and high school teachers, community scholarships, private student loans, and Veterans Administration benefits.
Certificate courses are selected to suit the professional demands and needs of a given field. Customized certificates are not available.
Several certificates can be completed online. Because some course instructors prefer to meet face-to-face, not every course applicable to a certificate has an online option. Also, international students should be aware that I-20s are not available for on-campus study.
Simply choose a course and register. For certificate requirements and instructions, select the certificate you are interested in from the list above, then see the Earning the Certificate section on that page.
Most Extension School graduate degrees require 10 to 12 courses. With only five courses and no admissions requirements, certificates offer a quicker path to a professional development credential.
Since the on-campus and online certificates are not degree programs, certificate awardees do not participate in Commencement or receive alumni status.
First, review the information about the certificate that interests (see list above).
If you still have questions, please e-mail us at professional_certificates@dcemail.harvard.edu.
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