Graduate Certificates
Academic Certificate Policies
A graduate certificate program comprises 12 to 21 credits and can be completed either independently or along with a degree program. Credits earned as a non-degree student may be applied to a graduate certificate. Admission to a certificate program may be required prior to enrollment in specified certificate courses. Students must be admitted to the certificate program in order to be awarded the certificate.
Students who have been provisionally admitted to a certificate program must be reclassified as regular admitted students no later than the semester in which they complete 50 percent of the total credits required for the certificate. With approval from the certificate program, up to 6 of the required credits for a graduate certificate can be transferred from a different institution or applied from another previous or concurrent WVU degree or certificate. Individual course credits may be applied to no more than two degrees, majors, or certificates. Courses applied to a certificate must have been completed no more than eight years prior to certificate conferral as stated on the Time Limits tab of the Degree Regulations section of this catalog.
See information on Graduate Multiple Curricula on the Academic Definitions tab under the Programs, Courses & Credits section of this catalog for rules concerning the application of credits from a completed certificate to a subsequent WVU degree.
Certificates offered, by college/school:
- Academic Affairs
- Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
- College of Applied Human Sciences
- College of Creative Arts
- Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design
- Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
- John Chambers College of Business and Economics
- Reed College of Media
- School of Medicine
- School of Public Health
Academic Affairs
Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
College of Applied Human Sciences
College of Creative Arts
Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
- Applied Statistics
- Community Development Policy and Practice
- Cultural Resource Management
- Healthcare Administration
- Linguistics
- Quantitative & Qualitative Social Science Research Methods
- Spanish
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Women's and Gender Studies
John Chambers College of Business and Economics
- Business Cybersecurity Data Analytics
- Business Cybersecurity Foundations
- Business Cybersecurity Management
- Business Data Analysis
- Business Data Science
- Business Data Technology Management
- Business Operations Research
- Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination
Reed College of Media
- Creative Strategy
- Data Marketing Communications
- Digital and Social Media
- Healthcare Communication
- Higher Education Marketing
- Integrated Marketing Communications
- Media Solutions and Innovation
- Public Relations Leadership
School of Medicine
School of Nursing
- Post-MSN Certificate FNP
- Post-MSN Certificate NEL
- Post-MSN Certificate PMHNP
- Post-MSN Certificate PNP