Graduate Certificate in Chemistry
The Chemistry Graduate Certificate program will assist educators in teaching at a higher academic level and will increase their opportunity for salary advancement. The certificate allows industry professionals to advance in their careers.
- 100% online, six starts per year
- Accelerated eight-week terms; complete in two semesters
- Designed for industry professionals and educators
- 18 total program credits
- Elective courses range from analytical electrochemistry to organic synthesis
Strengths of the program
- Courses are taught by experienced faculty members
- Students will develop an in-depth knowledge of chemistry that effectively prepares them to pursue their ideal career
Completion of the Certificate in Chemistry will consist of 4 core courses and a choice of 2 elective courses. Each course is 3 credits and delivered in 8 weeks. Courses can be completed in any order.
Sample curriculum
- Core 1: Bonding and Materials
- Core 2: Topics in Thermodynamics or Kinetics*
- Core 3: Advanced Spectroscopy
- Core 4: Chemical Information and Communication
Sample electives
- Advanced Instrumentation and Analysis
- Advanced Organic Synthesis
- Advanced Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Advanced Separations
- Analytical Electrochemistry
- Bioanalytical Chemistry
- Chemical Education
- Chemistry of Elements
- Environmental Chemistry
- Introduction to Computational Chemistry
- Medical Biochemistry
- Organometallic Reaction and Structures
*Note: if a student takes both Topics in Kinetics and Topics in Thermodynamics, one will count as an elective.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis, 6-starts per year.