UMUC offers a wide variety of entry-level and advanced certificates for students to meet educational, job-related, and career goals. Certificates are especially appropriate first goals for students who will later seek associate and bachelor's degrees. Credits fulfilling certificate requirements may also be applied to those degrees.

There are five entry-level programs in Asia which permit beginning students or students wanting an initial focus on a specific subject area to earn certificates. These areas are Accounting Foundations, Computer Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, and Management.

UMUC also offers a wide range of additional largely upper-level certificate programs geared toward helping members of the workforce stay current in today's demanding job market. Students will frequently need to combine online courses with classroom courses to complete the upper-level courses requirement.

These certificate programs have the following common features:

1. Each requires a total of 18 credits, including at least 9 credits with UMUC, in Asia, Europe, or UMUC Statewide;
2. The student must have a grade of at least C in each course.

Students seeking to earn a second certificate in a different academic area must complete an additional 9 credits with UMUC (Asia, Europe, or Statewide) following completion of the first certificate, and must fulfill all certificate requirements.

• Accounting Foundations
• Computer Studies
• Japanese Studies
• Korean Studies
• Management

• Accounting
• Human Resource Management
• Information Management
• Management Foundations
• Project Management for IT Professionals
• Women in Business
• Workplace Communications

For information on additional, largely upper-level, online 16-21 cr. certificates, visit:

Undergraduate Certificates
Graduate Certificates

These certificates are geared toward helping members of the workforce stay current in today's demanding job market.