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

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

Business

Business Analytics
Public Administration

Communications

Science Communication

Education and teaching

College and Career Readiness (no longer accepting students after summer 2025)
Community College Teaching and Learning
Educational Technology
English as a Second Language
Positive Behavior Support
Principal Pre K-12
Reading Specialist K-8 Pathway to Certification
Superintendent
Teaching English as a Second Language

Health and Nursing

Assistive Technology
Culturally-Centered Addictions Research Training (C-CART)
Physician Assistant Studies- Health Equity
Physician Assistant Studies- Operations and Leadership
Post-Master’s Family Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Public Health
Recreational Therapy
Strategic Systems Leadership (Nursing)

Human Development

Disability Resource Specialist

IT and computing

Data Science
Ecological and Environmental Informatics
Geographic Information Systems

Math and science

Applied Statistics
Building Science
Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Natural Resource Management
Wind Energy

Social sciences

Community Planning
Ethnic Studies
Indigenous and Tribal Nation-Building