Graduate Certificates

Expand your skills. Expand your career opportunities.

The University of Maryland School of Nursing offers a variety of graduate-level certificates in a breadth of contemporary nursing specialties critical to today’s health care workforce. With a certificate from UMSON, you’ll get experience in emerging fields, allowing you to pursue exciting new opportunities within your organization and beyond.

You can earn a specialized certificate in tandem with your MSN or DNP degree at UMSON.

Why should you earn a certificate?

• Expand your career expertise: You can gain experience in emerging fields, allowing you to pursue new opportunities within your organization and beyond.
• Enhance your career prospects: Stand out to employers with credentials that show your commitment to excellence and specialized knowledge. Some of our certificate programs help you prepare for certification by national boards.
• Maximize your investment: Seamlessly integrate certificate courses into your existing graduate program at UMSON – no extra courses required. While enrolled in most of our MSN and DNP specialties, you can complete some or all of the courses necessary to complete one of our certificate programs.
  
  Or you can apply up to 6 credits earned in a certificate program toward a degree program at UMSON, allowing you to get a feel for graduate-level education while earning your certificate.
• It’s flexible: You can complete the programs fully online (some with an in-person practicum), allowing you to balance school, work, and family responsibilities.
• It’s affordable: You can apply federal student aid to certificate completion.
• It’s quick: These concise programs are easy to complete in just one or two years.

More information about each certificate program: