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Career-Boosting Certificates and Courses

Continue your education and stay up to date with emergent issues, trends, and best practices at the NYU School of Professional Studies! Our certificates and courses build upon your current professional insights and knowledge while differentiating you in the job market. Gain the competitive edge with skills that set you apart and position you for growth in rapidly evolving industries.

AI, Data, and Technology

Stay on the cutting edge of technology with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Build skills in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technology
  • Explore the cutting-edge technological landscape
  • Boost productivity, discover meaningful insights, and reshape your work with cutting-edge tech through actionable strategies

Arts and Humanities

Gain an understanding of arts and humanities with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Learn what it takes to build a successful career in arts management or historic preservation through broad-based program content taught by industry experts

Finance and Entrepreneurship

Learn from industry experts and achieve a top-level view of these fields with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Gain in-demand skills in the areas of risk management, financial planning, and investment management
  • Learn from financial industry experts as you gain a top-level view of this fast-paced, highly competitive field

Global and Public Affairs

Explore pressing global issues with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Prepare for a rewarding and impactful career that advances work in critical areas such as clean energy, nonprofit organizations, the United Nations, public policy, and government
  • Learn to effectively lead technical and non-technical teams and foster cross-vertical relationships among technical and non-technical leaders
  • Gain an overview of the foundations of international relations while providing the opportunity to explore specific topics that are critical to attaining a well-rounded worldview

Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports

Boost your career in hospitality, tourism, and sports with cutting-edge certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Gain the financial and operational skills to excel at managing restaurants
  • Learn the various aspects of planning and executing an event or convention, including venue selection, design and production, stakeholder management, budgeting, contracting, and risk management
  • Learn the fundamentals of sports tech, innovation, and data to inform decision-making

Human Capital Management and Leadership

Become a leader and drive business results with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Leverage analytics to inform an organization’s practices and performance indicators and drive innovation and business success
  • Gain core knowledge in human capital management
  • Build your knowledge and skills to meet the growing demand for immediate and impactful workplace training
  • Develop business coaching knowledge and skills

Marketing and Public Relations

Build brand recognition and loyalty with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Harness social media and strategic media communications to build brand recognition and loyalty
  • Build integrated communication solutions that directly affect a company’s bottom line
  • Gain the qualitative and quantitative insights that drive effective marketing

Media and Communications

Enhance your portfolio and professional writing options with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Express yourself through a variety of channels and gain a competitive edge in the job market
  • Learn an overview of solid business writing, multimedia storytelling, and digital filmmaking
  • Enhance your portfolio and professional options

Nonprofit Fundraising

Gain a greater understanding of the important role of fundraisers in the nonprofit sector with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Understand of all aspects of fundraising best practices and the structure of nonprofits
  • Build your knowledge of the fundraising profession from law, ethics, and board governance to communications strategies and digital fundraising

Project Management

Gain an in-depth understanding of project management theories and tools with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Enhance organizational efficiency
  • Hone business strategy
  • Implement leading-edge management practices

Real Estate and Construction

Attain an insider’s view into the fundamentals of these fields with certificates and courses that will enable you to:

  • Build a foundation in real estate finance and economics
  • Gain an understanding of the concepts and tools used by leaders and analysts when underwriting deals
  • Deepen your knowledge of investment decision-making, deal analysis, and real estate investing
  • Acquire an understanding of the current technologies and methods in building construction, systems, and technologies used to manage and maintain built structures

Certificates or Courses: Which is Right for You?

Take a course to learn specialized, immediately applicable skills. You can also declare candidacy in a certificate (no commitment required) to acquire a wider level of knowledge in a specific field. Our globally recognized digital badges verify your accomplishments on your resume and LinkedIn profile.

Certificate Digital Badges

Specialized credentials for those who seek to gain the competitive advantage for career advancement or change.

  • Series of required and elective courses designed to further a specific skill set
  • Most certificates are a series of 3-6 courses
  • 10% discount on all future courses if you declare candidacy for a continuing education certificate program

Course Digital Badges

Professionally focused classes that provide maximum flexibility to create a personalized educational experience.

  • Single, focused topic means you can see if you like a subject before committing
  • Most courses can be applied to a certificate
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Learn Anywhere. Anytime.

Whether you are exploring a new field or advancing in your current one, our continuing education certificates and courses offer a variety of flexible learning options to meet you where you are in your career.

  • Most certificates and courses can be completed online
  • Courses can be taken one at a time
  • Most courses range from 5-10 weeks

Why Pursue Continuing Education at NYU SPS?

Access to the Experts

NYU SPS faculty are shaping the sectors and industries they teach in. They will partner with you as you learn new skills and build a portfolio that will set you apart in the job market.

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On-Trend Learning

Industries are evolving and so should you. Stay up to date with the latest trends with a continuing education Certificate or Course at NYU SPS.

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Upskill for Advancement

NYU SPS continuing education programs give you the chance to add a new skill to your resume for career advancement or change. You can also display your accomplishments on your resume or LinkedIn profile with digital badges.

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I loved all of my classes, especially getting to meet so many thoughtful and kind people in different places and different industries!

-Sarah Fowler
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Continuing Education Discounts

*Discounts are not stackable*

  • Declare certificate candidacy

    10%Off any NYU SPS continuing education course

  • Seniors 65+

    25%Off for anyone over the age of 65

  • NYU Alumni

    20%Off for anyone who has earned a degree at NYU

  • Veteran Friendly

    20%Discount for military-affiliated students


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