Analytics and Modeling
Build the foundational skills and knowledge needed to help organizations use data science to meet strategic goals, improve outcomes, or simply gain deeper understanding of their operations.
Graduate Certificates
Offered Online and On-Campus
Northwestern University graduate certificates offer professionals an opportunity to build essential skills and earn a targeted credential from a leading university. These certificate programs are ideal for those who want to build new skills early in their careers, change careers, or sample interdisciplinary academic subject matters. After earning your four-course certificate you may choose to continue your studies and apply credit to a related Northwestern University School of Professional Studies master’s degree program.
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Analytics Management
Develop the communication and management expertise needed to be a data-driven leader who can utilize models, analyses, and statistical data to improve business performance.
Clinical Research
Gain an understanding of clinical trial design, drug development, and regulatory requirements in order to manage the facets of clinical research, whether developing and implementing clinical research protocols or overseeing GCP, compliance and financial matters.College Sports Management
Learn how to manage the internal and external workings of an athletics department, including the unique human resource, legal, compliance, public relations, marketing, sponsorship, and financial issues facing college athletic departments.
Communication with Data
Communication professionals can build the tools they need to work with data and data analysts to accurately and effectively convey complex data into images and stories.
Content Strategy
Prepare for cross-functional and leadership communication roles by developing a deep and holistic understanding of today’s sophisticated digital media in order to lead the creation of memorable and engaging content.
Creative Writing
Strengthen your writing skills in small-group, workshop-style classes led by a faculty of published, award-winning authors. Enjoy convenient online and evening on-campus classes and connect with other writers at readings and events in an artistic community that extends beyond the University into Chicagoʼs vibrant literary scene.
Data Engineering
Add to your data science, engineering, or computer science background by learning to utilize system-wide problem-solving skills, choose hardware systems, and build software systems for implementing models made by data analysts to scale in production systems.
Database and Internet Technologies
Build the technical skills needed to analyze, design, implement, and manage software applications and digital media and to integrate data science concepts and machine learning algorithms to create value and solve business problems.
Esports
Develop a deep understanding of the esports landscape, the malleability to adapt to the continual shifts in the industry, and the skills to become a leader in this rapidly expanding sports business sector.Global Health Leadership
Build practical management and leadership skills in a larger ethical context to shape mission-driven work on global health equity and access projects.
Health Data Science
Learn the unique complexities of handling health data while building the foundational data science skills (R programming, statistical analysis, data modeling) that are essential to many industries.
Healthcare Industry
Study graduate-level health informatics and regulatory compliance courses to prepare for key roles in the U.S. healthcare system.Information Systems Management
Prepare for IT leadership roles by mastering essential information system management best practices — IT strategy development, project management methods, information security, and technology management techniques that apply to the entire system life cycle.
Information Systems Security
Learn how to plan, budget for, and implement secure network systems (LAN, WAN, wireless, mobile, IoT, AR) and lead organizational staff in the secure exchange of digital information across a variety of platforms.
Learning Design
Educators, corporate training professionals, online learning designers, librarians, and museum professionals can develop the tools needed to create meaningful and pedagogically sound learning experiences.PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Students in this hands-on program build practical managerial and technical skills for project management in the information systems software development lifecycle including requirements, analysis/design, implementation, and testing.
Public Policy and Administration
Those interested in working in government, education, and nonprofit fields can build the skills needed to assess and analyze data relevant to policy creation and understand the systemic processes involved in policy implementation and administration.
Regulatory Policy and Health Systems
Learn from industry experts how organizations implement and comply with healthcare and regulatory policy.Sports Analytics
Prepare for key positions in sports management and analytics by exploring analytics and modeling, probability theory, applied mathematics, statistics, and programming and their application in evaluating player and team performance and in sports team administration.
Sports Communication
Prepare for careers in sports by building expertise in sports marketing and online communication strategy.
Technology Entrepreneurship
Students from a range of disciplines — often driven by advances and innovations in science and technology — develop the expertise needed to build a successful startup or reinvent an existing organization and move into new markets.