Graduate certificates at NAU

Looking for additional credentials to elevate your career? Our graduate certificates offer students specialized disciplinary knowledge that can set them apart. As an add-on to a graduate degree, or as a stand-alone credential, we offer a wide variety of graduate certificates that meet market demands.

List of graduate certificates by interest area

* Programs eligible for Title IV funding (Financial Aid)

Arts and humanities

Creative Writing—Environmental Narrative
Music Performance
Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies
Women’s and Gender Studies

Business

Professional Writing*
Public Management

Communications

Communication Studies
Science Communication

Education and teaching

Autism Spectrum Disorders (School-Based)
Career and Technical Education
College and Career Readiness
Community College Teaching and Learning*
Educational Technology*
English as a Second Language
Higher Education Leadership
Positive Behavior Support*
Psychology of Human Development and Learning
Principalship*
Superintendency
Teaching English as a Second Language
Teaching Introductory Community College Mathematics

Health and nursing

Assistive Technology
Post-Master’s Family Nurse Practitioner*
Public Health 

Human Development

Disability Resource Specialist

IT and computing

Cybersecurity
Data Science
Geographic Information Systems*

Law and criminal justice

Leadership in Criminal Justice Administration

Math and science

Applied Statistics
Building Science
Conservation Ecology
Wind Energy

Social sciences

Community Planning
Ethnic Studies
Indigenous and Tribal Nation-Building, Leadership, Management, and Administration*