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Applied Biostatistics

Certificate / Online

The Applied Biostatistics Certificate is designed for individuals who lack formal training in Biostatistics and would like to gain skills needed to understand and apply standard statistical techniques. It is an online program that is available to practitioners and/or students at WVU and elsewhere.

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Applied Statistics

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

The Certificate in Applied Statistics (CAS) is designed for professionals or students who what to take applied statistics courses to enhance their quantitative skills and job opportunities. The certificate will provide students with a solid foundation in statistical methodology, and depending on the elective courses selected, predictive analytics, statistical computing, or statistical theory. The flexibility in the certificate course work is intended to allow the student to select courses that will meet their needs, whether enhancing professional quantitative skills or research productivity.

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Artist Diploma in Music Performance

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

The Artist Diploma in Music Performance is a one-year graduate certificate designed for the artistic refinement of highly advanced performers. With an emphasis on applied and ensemble study, the program offers a uniquely focused opportunity to further develop both professionalism and artistry in musicians gifted with the ability and motivation to succeed in the contemporary world.

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Business Cybersecurity Data Analytics

Certificate / Online

The Certificate in Business Cybersecurity Data Analytics requires 12 credit hours, the coursework focuses on the symbiotic relationship where data of all types relies on robust cybersecurity management for security and accuracy. The Certificate orients both data and technology analysts to the demands and requirements of both securing and analyzing data.

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Business Cybersecurity Foundations

Certificate / Online

The Business Cybersecurity Foundations Certificate, offered by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, focuses on the development of a new or overhaul of existing cybersecurity structures in firms of all sizes.

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Business Cybersecurity Management

Certificate / Online

The Business Cybersecurity Management Certificate, offered by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, prepares students to manage and improve existing cybersecurity programs with an emphasis on the evaluation of risks and where cybersecurity management meets the law.

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Business Data Analysis

Certificate / Online

The Business Data Analysis graduate certificate, offered by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, is intended to prepare you to extract insights and knowledge from data. As the intensity of demand grows for professionals with business data analytics skills, so does the need for a variety of programs capturing the breadth and depth of the discipline.

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Business Data Science

Certificate / Online

The Business Data Science Graduate Certificate, offered by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, focuses on advanced analytical methods and visualizations to help you make the most of your data and communicate your findings. Data science uses scientific methods to extract information from data, unifying statistics with machine learning and information technology to unlock insights otherwise impossible to discover.

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Business Data Technology Management

Certificate / Online

The Business Data Technology Management Graduate Certificate, offered by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, focuses on the collection and infrastructure supporting data and foundation statistical analysis techniques. This track is perfect for those who are supporting organizations relying on data collected or stored internally to conduct core activities.

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Business Operations Research

Certificate / Online

The Business Operations Research Graduate Certificate, offered by the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, will help you learn to apply analytical methods to support robust decision-making. Decision-makers fluent in statistical analysis, modeling, and simulation have the tools to quantitatively evaluate and identify the best outcomes of challenges faced.

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Clinical and Translational Science

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

As part of the WVCTSI, educational programs at the graduate level prepare trainees to participate in clinical and translational research. WVU offers a Certificate in Clinical and Translational Science which is designed to develop the next generation of clinical and translational scientists through education and mentored research training.

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Creative Strategy

Certificate / Online

The Creative Strategy Graduate Certificate, offered by the Reed College of Media, will give you the versatility you need to succeed in the marketing world, particularly in the area of creative services.

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Cultural Resource Management

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

The Cultural Resource Management Certificate Program (CRM) is housed within the Department of History in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. The graduate-level fifteen-hour certificate is designed to augment nearly any graduate degree at West Virginia University, or it may be obtained independently for non-degree graduate students. We partner with other WVU units and community organizations to perform valuable service for the state and region. Our students and partners alike come from diverse backgrounds, with a variety of needs. Whether it is surveying a historic building or tracing community histories, our program is on the forefront of instruction and service in the world of Cultural Resource Management.

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Data Marketing Communications

Certificate / Online

The Data Marketing Communications Graduate Certificate, offered by the Reed College of Media, will prepare you for a career in this emerging discipline that involves interpreting data and communicating key insights gleaned from data, in order to make better marketing decisions.

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Digital and Social Media

Certificate / Online

The Digital and Social Media Graduate Certificate, offered by the Reed College of Media, is ideal for you if you desire to enter the world of digital and social media marketing.

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Early Childhood Administration

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

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Early Childhood Development

Certificate / Online

The Early Childhood Development Certificate provides academic training for those who desire to work with children in pre-K classrooms in public schools, Head Start programs, or in childcare centers. The certificate is free standing or can be applied to degree requirements if you wish to pursue a bachelor’s degree in this field.

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Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination

Certificate / Online

The widespread growth in white-collar crime, litigation disputes, the illegal international movement of money and terrorism financing have greatly raised the demand for forensic accountants, fraud examiners and for professionals who possess those skills.

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis

Certificate / Online

The Graduate Certificate in GIS and Spatial Analysis is intended to augment the educational tracks of a wide number of students from across WVU with the ability to analyze spatial data at an advanced level.

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Global Engagement

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

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Health Professions Education

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

The Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education will help students understand learners in healthcare education and design learning materials accordingly. Through research-based teaching principles and evaluation strategies, professionals can create learning environments to prepare healthcare professionals to translate skills and knowledge for benefit of patient care and healthcare systems.

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Healthcare Communication

Certificate / Online

The Healthcare Communication Graduate Certificate, offered by the Reed College of Media prepares you to work in the healthcare sector, providing the public with information about medical treatments, disease prevention, and healthy lifestyles.

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Higher Education Marketing

Certificate / Online

The Higher Education Marketing Graduate Certificate, offered by the WVU Reed College of Media, will give you the skills you need to dive deeply into the nuances of student recruitment and institutional branding within the foundation of integrated marketing communications (IMC) strategy.

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Infant/Toddler Education

Certificate / Online

The Infant/Toddler Undergraduate Certificate is designed for early childhood teachers and providers, Head Start teachers, and others who work with young children from birth to three years of age. The certificate is free standing or can be taken with a degree program.

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Integrated Marketing Communications

Certificate / Online

The 15-credit IMC graduate certificate provides students with a broad overview of IMC, focusing on several integral aspects of the discipline.

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Media Solutions and Innovation

Certificate / Online

The Media Solutions and Innovation certificate program explores the disruptions in the media industry and give you specific skills and tools that prepare you to lead or launch a media organization in the 21st century. The program partners with NewStart to connect you with industry leaders for discovery, research and development of targeted solutions to address some of the most challenging media problems, with an emphasis on local and community media.

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Music Business and Industry

Certificate / Online

Covering a complete range of today’s music industry commerce and products, and analyzing progressive stages in its various product life cycles within the current global external environment (from creation and transformation to consumption, commercial exploitation, and feedback), the program methodically builds and widens students’ perspectives of the music industry’s fundamental regulatory and commercial mechanisms, along with the skills to manage and operate its systems.

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Post-MSN Certificate Family Nurse Practitioner

Certificate / Online

This program prepares nurses who have already earned a master’s degree, or higher, in nursing to sit for the national certification examination offered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The post-graduate FNP certificate program requires a minimum of 16 credits that are earned in 4 courses. Two courses are clinical, affording the student the opportunity to complete the 600 hours of supervised clinical practice as required in order to sit for the national certification examination. Two courses are didactic and offered via webcast and the internet, affording the student the opportunity to take these courses off-campus.

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Post-MSN Certificate Nurse Executive Leadership

Certificate / Online

This certificate program is specifically designed for current nursing professionals holding a Master’s degree or higher in nursing who may be in advanced practice, education, leadership, and/or direct patient care roles. This program will prepare nurses for careers in administration and leadership.

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Post-MSN Certificate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Certificate / Online

This post graduate certificate program prepares advanced practice nurses to meet the needs for advanced psychiatric mental health nursing care in their communities.

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Public Relations Leadership

Certificate / Online

The Public Relations Leadership Graduate Certificate, offered by the Reed College of Media, gives you the unique skills you need to enter the world of executive communication and leadership. Learn how to analyze an organization, develop favorable messages for internal and external audiences, and provide messaging via digital, social and traditional media.

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Sustainable Trails Development

Certificate / Online

The Sustainable Trails curriculum welcomes students from various fields who are interested in trails development, programming and management, as well as design. The graduate certificate program in Sustainable Trails Development provides a great synergy with local trail development and programming efforts, including WVU’s 2020 International Mountain Bicycling Association Trail Accelerator Grant.

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Therapeutic Art

Certificate / Online

The Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Art provides additional training for art teachers. This field offers new professional opportunities to art educators who are trained, knowledgeable, and versed in therapeutic art concepts and technical skills within their teaching practice in the PreK-12 classroom.

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University Teaching

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

The Certificate in University Teaching is a fifteen credit hour program for graduate students. It includes:

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Women's and Gender Studies

Certificate / Morgantown Campus

The Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate consists of 15 hours of graduate-level work in women’s studies, using those courses that are approved by the women’s studies curriculum committee as primary or component courses for the women’s studies program.

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