Certificate Programs
Certificates
Units Earned
Type of Certificate*
Fee Structure
Academic Credit Certificate Programs Academic Units Pre-Professional Certificate or
Professional Certificate
Can be offered either as state funded or through University Extended Education as a self-supportiong/fee-based progam
Non-Academic Credit/CEU Certificate Programs Continuing Education Units (CEU) Eligiblity requirements will vary Can be offered only through University Extended Education as a self-supporting/fee-based program.

*Pre-professional certificate programs shall consist of at least fifty percent upper-division level coursework. Pre-professional certificate programs require as a prerequisite the completion of an associate of arts degree or an equivalent number of units or appropriate experience and special needs.

*Professional certificate programs shall contain exclusively upper-division or graduate-level coursework. Professional certificate programs must require the possession of a bachelor’s degree as a prerequisite or co-requisite.