Fewer Credits. More Flexibility. Big Value.
A certificate is an excellent professional development tool to increase your knowledge in your career, begin work toward a full degree, achieve state licensure, fulfill state or national education requirements, or learn new skills to give you a foot in the door toward a new career.
According to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, "certificates have become the second most common postsecondary award in the United States."
Certificate Benefits
- Develop skills faster and keep pace with changes in your industry.
- Certificates are fastest-growing form of post-secondary credentials (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Earn many of Stout's certificates within 6-9 months.
- Increase your earning potential.
- 25% increase in salary after certificate (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- $117,000 in lifetime earnings (University of Milwaukee)
- 13-25% boost in annual salary (Forbes)
- Build to a bigger degree.
- Many graduate certificate courses can later be applied to a master’s degree.
- Expand your circle of influence.
- Connect and network with industry-experienced professors and fellow students.