2026-2027 Graduate Catalog
A certificate program is a sequence of courses that provide specialized knowledge and skills for personal enrichment, professional advancement, or career change. Students wishing to pursue a certificate may do so as a part of a degree program or in a non-degree status (graduate special or directly admitted to the certificate). Please consult the admission requirement section of the catalog for further instructions related to admissions.
Graduate level certificates are comprised of at least nine (9) credit hours of graduate level coursework. Transfer hours and substitutions are usually not acceptable for certificate programs given their limited scope. However, required certificate coursework previously completed at the undergraduate level must be substituted with an acceptable graduate-level course chosen in consultation with the advisor.
Certificate programs are not eligible for Title IV (federal financial aid) funding unless the certificate is a requirement of the degree program.
Graduate Certificate Options
Please refer to each of the following certificate program pages for specific admissions and program requirements.
A
B
C
- Climate Leadership Certificate
- Coaching Certificate
- Conservation Data Management Analysis Certificate
- Conservation Leadership, Policy, and Management Certificate
D
E
- Emergency Management, Planning and Administration Certificate
- Enterprise Transformation Certificate
- ESG Certificate
F
- Foundations of Biodiversity Conservation and Management Certificate
- Foundations of Health and Wellness Certificate
- Fundamentals of Biotechnology Certificate
H
I
L
- Leadership and Peak Performance Certificate
- Leadership Ethics and Communication in Biotechnology Certificate
- Leadership in Health and Wellness Certificate
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
Program Guidelines
Graduate certificates are designed to complement graduate or professional programs of study, and must require a minimum of 9 graduate credits.
The certificate must be associated with a UW-Green Bay graduate degree program, and must include a minimum of three tenured faculty members. The committee can be an existing Executive Committee, such as a budgetary unit or department, or can be developed among interested faculty. The committee must meet at least once a year and forward copies of minutes for all meetings to the Provost’s Office.
The Executive Committee must appoint an advisor for the certificate or have the Graduate Program Chair from the associated graduate degree serve that function. The advisor or chair advises students and performs necessary administrative tasks such as admissions decisions and approving substitutions.
Certificate Completion
Students must earn a minimum of a 3.0 Grade Point Average in the certificate courses and must earn one half of the total required credits at UW-Green Bay.
The Registrar’s office transcribes certificates earned on an academic record when a student completes a degree simultaneously with a certificate. The Registrar’s office does not transcribe a certificate on the academic record for students who do not earn a degree, but who complete a series of classes that are a part of a certificate program.
Academic departments are responsible for printing and awarding a certificate of completion. Additionally, when professional licensures or certifications are earned through a Certificate, students must contact their academic department to authorize or confirm completion with granting agencies.
Students may contact the Office of Graduate Studies for a Certificate Verification Letter if a UW-Green Bay confirmation of completion is needed for employment or other purposes.