Advance your career with flexible, high-impact graduate certificates

Explore four fully online, 12-credit graduate certificates in Health Communication (HCOM), designed for working professionals who want a flexible, high-impact way to deepen your knowledge and advance your career. 

Customize your learning by choosing courses that fit your goals and schedule. Each certificate takes, on average, one year to complete, and you can choose your own courses from the HCOM curriculum and design a schedule that works for you. Most students finish in about a year, and you’ll study alongside master's students, learning from the same expert faculty at the same per-credit tuition rate ($740 USD per credit hour). 

All certificate credits can also be transferred to the HCOM program if you decide at any time that you'd like to pursue a Masters' degree.

Learn more at the Health Communication website.
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General Health Communication (CHC)

Choose from any course in the HCOM curriculum, customize your own schedule, and diversify your skill and expertise in health communication. This certificate is ideal for students who want to learn more about the health communication field as a whole or who would like to try HCOM as a non-degree seeking student before switching to the Masters’ degree.
Patient Care Communication (CPC)

Patient Care Communication (CPC)

The CPC is an ideal choice for students who are looking for more expertise in the interpersonal aspects of healthcare, such as providers with direct patient contact, at-home caregivers, social workers, pharmacists, or any other professionals who provide one-on-one care to others. 
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Communication and Health Promotion (CHP)

This certificate is an ideal choice for students with marketing and PR, public health, crisis communication, and health campaign experience. Courses teach you to tailor your messages to specific audiences, being mindful of different channels of media and the benefits and pitfalls of each.
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Communication and Health Management (CHM)

The CHM is an ideal choice for students in administrative or managerial roles in health care. Courses offered will help you better understand optimization of organizational systems, how to recognize and repair organizational communication at every level of the healthcare field: between coworkers, within teams, and throughout entire systems.