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
Superintendent
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

Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Wind Energy

Social sciences

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