Noncredit Certificate Programs
Rethink
Education
You demand immediate relevance—we can help.
Certificate programs are a new approach to education for working adults wherever they are in their career journey, offering specialized training in a skill-set immediately transferable to a position or industry. Rethinking education allows you or your employees to stay nimble in an evolving world.
Delivering Results
Compared to a degree plan, a certificate program is relatively short-term (months versus years) and lower in cost. The curriculum is also more intentional (no prerequisites, no general education), delivering direct relevance to the marketplace.
Earn a Valuable Credential
Affordably explore new career or industry opportunities while earning a valuable credential
Fill in Knowledge Gaps
Show your commitment to ongoing learning by staying current with the latest technologies and trends
Gain Confidence
Gain confidence with a program offering a high rate of success and direct relevance to your career goals
Noncredit Certificates
Our noncredit certificates are 100% online, allowing you to balance work, family and education. You can demonstrate to your current or future employer your accomplishment with a digital badge. Learn more about digital badges.
Business Certificates
If you are interested in adding a new professional skill to your portfolio to advance your career or take it in a different direction, UW-Green Bay offers noncredit business certificates.
Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Online Program
Leverage AI to increase efficiency, boost profitability and deliver more business value. Learning how to apply AI will enable you to respond to changing business situations faster and more informed.
Nonprofit Certificates
UW-Green Bay offers a noncredit certificate to broaden your understanding of nonprofit leadership.
Nonprofit Leadership
Online Program
Pursue your potential in nonprofit leadership. Be a catalyst for change. Play a critical role in strengthening civic engagement.
Fundraising Management
Master the fundamentals of nonprofit fundraising management with our dynamic new certificate program, offered in partnership with Cultivate Fundraising.
Healthcare & Human Service Certificates
Our noncredit health and human services certificates can help you improve health and healthcare delivery at a variety of levels. Find which one is right for you!
Community Access & Navigation Training
Now offering a pilot program to educate health and human service professionals, agencies and other engaged individuals in Sheboygan County on how to overcome any barrier that might impede access to needed services.
Geriatric Health
As our population continues to age, healthcare will require a new approach to age-friendly care that integrates geriatrics concepts and crosses disciplines to ensure the complex needs of older people are met.
Management in Health Systems
Healthcare is evolving. Expand your responsibilities with technology and coordination skills that do not involve direct patient care.
Pediatric Mental Health
Online Program
Make a difference in the life of a child by aiding early mental health assessments. Learn how to recognize warning signs with a certificate program designed for eligible practicing professionals.
Leadership & Workforce Certificates
You are ready to advance into leadership or are already there and interested in learning how to improve your workforce or workplace culture. UW-Green Bay offers a variety of noncredit leadership and support certificates to meet your needs.
People, Culture & Equity
Online Program
Elevate your impact! This certificate program equips you with a strategic approach to interacting with and managing people, cultivating a thriving culture and fostering equity within your organization and beyond.
Modern Workplace Skills
Online Program
Enable faster and more effective onboarding by improving modern workplace skills for displaced, underemployed and underserved employees. Provide a solid foundation for future career growth.
Supervisory Essentials
Online Program
Influence, inspire and help others. Become the leader you always wanted to be. Thrive in your career. SHRM-approved for continuing education. Each class qualifies for 3 Hours/3 PDCs, 6 classes.
Supervisory Leadership
Online Program
Become a more purposeful leader with our Supervisory Leadership certificate program. SHRM-approved for continuing education. Each class qualifies for 3 Hours/3 PDCs, 6 classes.
Special Interest Certificates
UW-Green Bay offers noncredit certificates to broaden your understanding of unique interests and provide specialized knowledge and personal enrichment.
First Nations Studies for Professionals
Improve and enrich your professional practice with a certificate program designed in partnership with Social Work Professional Programs to expand awareness and understanding of the history, culture and tribal sovereignty of Native American Nations in Wisconsin.
Green Bay Packers Return to Glory
Online Program
With the departure of legendary coach Vince Lombardi, the Packers struggled in mediocrity for more than two decades. Then, Bob Harlan hired Ron Wolf, future Hall of Fame general manager, and almost overnight the Packers regained their status as one of NFL's flagship franchises. Photo courtesy of the Green Bay Packers
History of the Green Bay Packers
Online Program
The Green Bay Packers are a story of survival dating back to their origins in 1919. Uncover the team’s storied history and get an inside look at the Packers Hall of Fame. Photo courtesy of the Green Bay Packers
English to Spanish Translation
Hybrid Program
Ensure accurate and precise communication with Spanish-speaking individuals. Translators are crucial in key situations.
Spiritual Companioning
Online Program
Spirituality can add depth and meaning to life. Today individuals approach spirituality through a variety of realms. Help guide others on their spiritual journey.
Talent & Recruitment Certificates
UW-Green Bay offers noncredit certificates to support your efforts in attracting and retaining quality employees and training them for key roles.
Exceptional Customer Experience
Online Program
In the race for new customers, companies can often overlook the importance of their existing customers. Transform perspective by listening to your customers and reframing operations and communications with a singular focus on impressing them.
Human Resource Management
Online Program
This credential has been designed for current HR practitioners and professionals interested in an HR role to stay up-to-date with industry best practices. SHRM-approved for continuing education. Each class qualifies for 3 Hours/3 PDCs, 10 classes.
Training & Development
ONLINE PROGRAM
Optimize talent and performance as a training professional with a certificate program designed to ensure employees make the most of their talent and maximize performance. SHRM-approved for continuing education. Each class qualifies for 3 Hours/3 PDCs, 10 classes.
Online Learning with Ed2Go
Looking for additional professional development? Through our partnership with Ed2Go, we offer hundreds of additional classes in categories such as business, computer applications, information technology and more.
Emergency Management
Planning & Administration
This certificate is available for credit as a bachelor's degree emphasis.
It is also available as a graduate certificate. The problems facing today’s emergency management professionals are complex and multifaceted, requiring higher levels of competencies for the next generation of emergency professionals.
Meet Fearless Dreamer Emily
"I found my calling at Habitat for Humanity, but my first degree didn’t really connect with my position. I’m currently taking the certificate in nonprofit leadership. The program has really set me up for success, plus provided a lot of resources I can use going forward, especially networking with other people."
Emily Fread
Development Director
Habitat for Humanity, Sheboygan
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If you have a group of people that you would like to enroll in any of our certificates, please email Kayle Petitjean in our Office of Professional Continuing Education with any of your questions.