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Employers screen on certifications your degree program does not award. Partnering adds them to what your students graduate with, without new faculty, new labs, or a curriculum approval cycle.
Graduates apply for roles where the job posting names a certification, and the degree does not carry it. The gap is not knowledge so much as the specific credential an applicant tracking system is filtering for.
Standing up certification programs internally means hiring instructors who hold the certification, licensing official courseware, and repeating both every time a vendor revises an exam. Partnering puts those programs in your catalog without any of that becoming a permanent cost line.
The quickest route in. Certification boot camps run as non-credit continuing education, which usually avoids the approval cycle a for-credit course triggers and can be offered to the community as well as to enrolled students.
Certifications sequenced alongside coursework so students finish the degree already holding the credentials employers screen on. Works best where the certification maps to a course you already teach.
Workforce development grants, Perkins funding and similar sources frequently cover certification training. We have run programs funded this way and can supply the documentation those applications ask for.
Where regional employers name specific certifications in their hiring, the program can be built around those rather than around a generic catalog. That alignment is usually what makes the funding case.
Academic partnerships run on a longer cycle than commercial ones, so the support is weighted toward planning and reporting.
No. Instructors are ours and hold the certifications they teach. Your faculty are not required to certify, and nothing about the arrangement depends on them doing so.
Both routes work. Non-credit continuing education is faster to stand up because it usually sidesteps the approval cycle. For-credit takes longer and depends on your own curriculum process, which we cannot shortcut.
Frequently, yes. Workforce development and Perkins funding both commonly cover certification training. We can supply the course documentation those applications require, though the application itself is yours.
No. On campus, live online, or a mix. Live online tends to suit continuing education cohorts who are working, and it removes the lab investment question entirely.
Tell us what you teach now and which employers hire your graduates. The partnership team replies within 24 to 48 hours to book a short call.