Our Certificate Programs in Public Management and Non-Profit Management provide individuals, who have recently moved into a management position or desire to move into a management position, with the knowledge, skills and abilities to be an effective manager. 
 
Many individuals find the prospects of returning to school after a long period out of the academic community a daunting task. The Certificate Program allows them to test the intellectual fit between graduate course work and their abilities in a non-threatening environment. Moreover, the pool of candidates entering the program will have had widely different undergraduate education experiences. The program provides all of the students a common academic core in public management.

Finally, the certificate program can serve as a head start to completion of your Masters degree in Public Administration.  The Master of Public Administration is designed currently to take a minimum of two and a half years. The Certificate program provides individuals the ability to earn recognition for their academic work in a shorter time horizon. However, if after completion of the fifteen hours required for the certificate program a students does not believe that the degree is an appropriate goal, they will be able to demonstrate, through the Certificate, that they have undertaken a significant level of individual development.