Graduate Certificates

Architecture-Based Systems Integration
SEOR Department
This eighteen credit certificate is designed to prepare system engineers to understand the design of architectures as a major ingredient in the design of systems families and provides the conceptual basis for achieving system integration.

Advanced Networking Protocols for Telecommunications
TCOM Program
This fifteen credit certificate is designed to provide an advanced understanding of networking protocols that are used in telecommunications networks.

Biometrics
CS Department
Fifteen credits for this certificate have been selected to provide a solid basis for understanding the science and technology needed to verify a person's identity and to support homeland security.

Biostatistics
STAT Department
This is a joint certificate program with the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS), and prepares participants to apply statistical methods to quantitative design and analysis of health care issues and biomedical studies.

Civil Infrastructure and Security Engineering
CEIE Department
The Civil Infrastructure and Security Engineering Certificate is intended to respond uniquely to the need for broad training in the holistic/systems approach to the long-term management of infrastructure, with specific attention to risk and vulnerability assessments, and to creative solutions to providing improved system security.

Command, Control, Computers, Communications, & Intelligence
SEOR Department
Fifteen credits on the theory and practice of such systems as air traffic control, drug enforcement, law enforcement, emergency preparedness, crisis management, global command and control, NATO command and control, and various tactical systems of the military services. Available only to those who have completed their master's in this field or are at a graduate level in these studies.

Communications & Networking
ECE Department
Fifteen credits toward competence in communications and networking, communication networks, optical communications, mobile communication systems, communication theory, or digital communications. Credits earned can be applied toward a master's degree.

Computational Modeling
SEOR Department
Fifteen credits providing knowledge, tools, and techniques to those who are working or planning on working in this field. Credit earned can be applied toward a graduate degree.

Computer Games Technology
CS Department
The certificate program in computer games technology is open to all students who are eligible for entrance into the Master's degree program in Computer Science or in any scientific or engineering discipline at GMU.

Computer Networking
CS Department
Fifteen credits for this certificate have been selected to provide a solid basis for understanding the core software and communications technologies upon which today’s networks are based, and how they may be combined to create effective computer networks.

Discovery, Design, and Innovation
CEIE Department
This certificate program has been designed to provide students with a balanced understanding of the intimate relationship between the processes of discovery and invention and the reliance of both processes on imaginative or creative thought. Although our imaginative and creative capabilities are not well understood presently, there is a vast and exciting literature emerging in many disciplines that concerns these human capabilities.

Data Mining
CS Department
Fifteen credits intended for persons interested in the analysis and knowledge discovery from large and diverse data sources. The goal of the program is to study data mining concepts and successful applications.

Database Management
CS Department
Fifteen credits (5 classes) providing comprehensive coverage in theoretical foundations, practical experience and recent advances in the area of databases.

Electronic Commerce
CS Department
Fifteen credits intended for those interested in the use of the Internet and associated World-Wide-Web technology by governments, people, and industry.

Federal Statistics
STAT Department
Fifteen credits comprise a professional program targeted at upgrading the skills of practitioners. This program is extremely flexible and provides instruction in survey methods, data analysis, databases and data security, parallel computation, geographic information systems, and issues of statistics and public policy.

Foundations in Real Estate Development
Center for Real Estate Development/CEIE Department
The principal focus of the Certificate is to provide a fundamental understanding of Real Estate concepts. The graduate certificate will educate the student in three major disciplines: leadership and management challenges in real estate development, fundamentals of construction management, and economic evolution and development concepts.

Foundations of Information Systems
CS Department
This certificate program is designed primarily for students who earned an undergraduate degree in an area other than information systems and are willing to acquire solid foundations to pursue further education and career in information systems, software engineering, information security and assurance, or a related discipline.

Information Engineering
CS Department
Fifteen credits designed for people involved in the specification, design, implementation, and management of data- and knowledge-intensive information systems.

Information Security Assurance
CS Department
Fifteen credits designed for those interested in the science and methods of ensuring secrecy, integrity, availability, and legitimate use of information systems.

Intelligent Agents
CS Department
Fifteen credits providing knowledge, tools, and techniques for people interested in developing systems which rely on knowledge and reasoning.

Leading Technical Enterprises
CEIE Department
This graduate certificate is a professional program tailored to meet the needs of engineering companies and technical organizations. It targets engineering and other technical employees who wish to align themselves with the learning organization doctrine of developing leaders and other employees interested in increasing their understanding of new business opportunities may be identified, successfully marketed, planned and managed.

Military Operations Research
SEOR Department
Fifteen credits providing knowledge, tools, and techniques for those who are in or want to be in military operations.

Network Technologies and Applications
TCOM Program
This fifteen credit certificate is designed to provide a broad understanding of the technologies used in telecommunications networks and the various applications of telecommunications networks.

Signal Processing
ECE Department
Fifteen credits providing a well-defined target for students who want to advance or update their knowledge in this fast-moving field without getting a(nother) master's degree.

Software Architecture
CS Department
More information to come

Software Engineering
CS Department
Fifteen credits for those who need knowledge, tools, and techniques for the field of software engineering.

Sustainability and the Environment
Center for Real Estate Development/CEIE Department
The principal focus of this advanced Certificate is to provide a detailed understanding of evolving Real Estate concepts, particularly as relating to land development, sustainability and the impact of evolving development on the environment. The five course series will further educate the student in four disciplines: a detailed understanding of land analysis and valuation, engineering concepts related to land development, impact of the environment on development, and the key concepts of sustainable development.

Systems Engineering Analysis and Architecture
SEOR Department
The graduate certificate in Systems Engineering Analysis and Architecture (SEAA) is intended for students who want to advance their knowledge in systems engineering analysis, design and architecture. Students get an understanding of the theory and/or tools of the systems life cycle, systems requirements and cost modeling, systems design, architecture-based systems engineering, the design of systems of systems, and a selection of other techniques applicable to systems engineering analysis.

Systems Engineering of Software Intensive Systems
SEOR Department
This fifteen credit certificate is designed to teach students the infrastructure of defining, developing and maintaining quality systems in the field of Systems Engineering.

Telecommunications Forensics and Security
TCOM Program
This fifteen credit certificate program is designed to provide an advanced understanding of forensics and security in both networks and digital storage media.

Telecommunications Systems Modeling
TCOM Program
This fifteen credit certificate is designed to provide a broad understanding of the end-to-end systems engineering approach to telecommunications projects.

VLSI Design/Manufacturing
ECE Department
Fifteen credits providing a background for those in Northern Virginia's semiconductor and intellectual property businesses. Addresses very large-scale integration (VLSI) design and manufacturing.

Water Resource Engineering
CEIE Department
Water resources engineering is the application of the sciences of hydrology and hydraulics to serve society. This includes planning, designing and managing systems to provide: reliably dry places for society’s activities; dependable, high quality water supplies for industrial, municipal, residential, and other uses; sustainable water-related ecologies; and other uses of our water resources. This program is designed for engineers and others interested in pursuing advanced study of water resources.

Web-Based Software Engineering
CS Department
Fifteen credits (5 classes) providing knowledge, tools, and techniques for those interested in the field of web and distributed software applications.

Wireless Communications
TCOM Program
This certificate is designed to provide a broad understanding of the technologies, applications, and systems used in all forms of wireless communications.