Look here for opportunities to refine your skills and gain more knowledge for your professional development and career advancement. You will find a variety of continuing education opportunities and certificate programs here, or explore new career opportunities. If you're not sure where to begin, consult our Get Started page for help.

Multiple Discipline Offerings

Find a vast array of career development and lifelong learning resources at these University of Minnesota entities.

Twin Cities campus — The College of Continuing Education offers professional development short courses and certificate programs. Courses are offered during the day and evening at multiple locations.
Crookston campus — UMC online courses, course descriptions and schedules.
Duluth campus — The Department of Continuing Education offers professional development certificates, in-person and online courses in a wide range of subject areas.
Morris campus — UMM programs include workshops, regional and summer programs.
Rochester campus — Continuing education and professional development from UMR.
University of Minnesota Extension — Find statewide programs that help Minnesotans make better decisions, take positive action and address key issues in their lives and their communities.

Offerings by Subject Area

Agriculture — Find information about Extension opportunities about crops, livestock, the business of agricultural, horticulture, food and much more.

Business, Management, and Labor:
Business Management Professional Development — Certificate programs and short courses from the College of Continuing Education designed to provide professionals with the core competencies needed to advance in the workplace.
Executive Education — Learn the latest in business strategies, trends, research, and technical applications at the Carlson School.
Labor Education Service — Provides training to Minnesota workers and their organizations.
Momentum Series — Half-day and full-day courses provide solutions for current business issues.

Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health — Find a seminar series from the Center for Excellence in Children's Mental Health. The Lessons from the Field series will focus on relational aggression. Seminars are available via distance learning with many in real time. The Children's Mental Health eReview summarizes research and practices implications in the field.

Clinical and Translational Science — Clinical research methodology and practice modules for health care practitioners, principal investigators, researchers, and their affiliated institutions (public health topics available to anyone; other courses open only to those with U of M affiliation)

Community Development — If you are interested in building leadership programs, better public engagement or using high-speed technologies to revitalize your community, look here for Extension seminars and other learning opportunities.

Dentistry — Receive timely and practical continuing dental education for dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants.

Design — The College of Design offers continuing professional education that includes fellowship opportunities, certificates and distance learning programs.

Education:
Early Childhood Educators — Find several opportunities for certificate programs here.
Work and Human Resource Education — Vocational and technical educations can find organizational leadership, policy and development opportunities here.
Programs for Licensed Teachers - Opportunities for teachers to be licensed in additional content areas, complete graduate degrees, earn certificates in new areas, pursue administrative licensure, and more.
Additional Teacher Licensure — Obtain additional licensure to your existing state teaching license.
Professional Development — Support for professionals in education and human development
Office of Professional Development Outreach — Find professional development for career and technical educators in Minnesota here.
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) offers professional development for second language teachers. CARLA offers a variety of online sources:
• Virtual language assessment center
• Tutorials on online language teaching
• Handbook on how to teach to language proficiency, with sample units and lesson plans
• Resources on content-based language teaching with technology, including units and lesson plans
• Archives on teaching in language immersion programs
• Strategies on learning Spanish grammar

Engineering and Technology:
College of Science and Engineering — Find a variety of professional development offerings here.

Environment — Extension information and courses about the latest in environmental science education, water resource management, agroforestry and more.

Family Food and Housing — Look here for Extension opportunities about family and teen relations, nutrition, health and safety, and housing here.

Gardening — Become a Master Gardener through U of M Extension, learn about bee keeping, hone your gardening knowledge through the "Plant A-Z guide" and much more.

Law — Continuing Legal Education (CLA) offerings can be found here.

Medical Education — Continuing Medical Education promotes a lifetime of outstanding professional practice.

Nursing — The School of Nursing includes a variety of programs in the area of professional education.

Pharmacy — Find several continuing pharmacy education opportunities here.

Public Affairs — The Humphrey Institute has an on-going commitment to public affairs and planning professionals.

Public Health — Public health and outreach programs promote lifelong learning to bridge academic and public health practice communities, providing national leadership in developing educational programs and online courses. Includes public health preparedness, hazardous material training, and occupational health.

Teaching Licensure — The College of Education and Human Development is committed to supporting professionals working in education and human development through professional development.

Veterinary Medicine— The College of Veterinary Medicine provides professional opportunities for lifelong learning in areas such as companion animals, dairy programs, equine, poultry, and swine.

Youth Development — Find Extension Youth Work Institute professional development courses, workshops, seminar and practical ways to apply your learning.