Non-Credit Certificates
Build practical skills, strengthen your resume, and move forward with flexible learning opportunities through Muhlenberg College’s School of Continuing Studies.
Muhlenberg College offers non-credit certificate options designed to help adult learners build targeted expertise. Whether you’re sharpening professional skills or exploring a new direction, these certificates provide focused learning with clear outcomes.
Major Certificates
Students may earn a certificate from Muhlenberg College by taking evening or weekend classes in the traditional majors listed below. Students pursuing a major certificate will complete the same sequence of courses as students pursuing the major.
How it works
- Course requirements vary by major. For example, History requires nine courses (36 credit hours), while Accounting requires 12 courses (48 credit hours) for the Bachelor of Arts or Science degree through the School of Continuing Studies.
- Evening and weekend availability varies. Not all classes are offered during evening hours,s and some programs require day classes.
Transfer credit and prior coursework
- The School of Continuing Studies accepts comparable credits from regionally accredited colleges and universities.
- Students may transfer up to half of the major from other institutions toward their Muhlenberg certificate.
Certificate Details
Learn more about the specifics for each of our certificates below, including requirements, tuition rates and sample course information. Questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out to a member of our team at continuingstudies@muhlenberg.edu.
This interactive noncredit program allows participants to explore issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in modern society. Participants will enhance their understanding of these complex topics through lectures, case studies, discussions, individual and group activities, and self-reflection. The DEIB certificate aims to equip participants with knowledge and competencies to recognize inequities, honor multiple social identities, and help foster more just and inclusive personal, professional, and civic environments. Though not exhaustive, the program provides a foundation for continuing education and dialogue around society's complex challenges.
The program design consists of:
- In-person and virtual seminars
- Readings in DEIB theory and practice
- Optional 1-day DEIB symposium
- Small organization focused concluding project
- Pathway for anyone who completes this and goes into the graduate program
- DEIB professional certificate award
- Highly customizable modular design
- Standard public offering or private option allowing for customization for corporate partners to meet their organizational needs
- Can be paired or intermixed with modules from our Leadership Academy noncredit program
- Individual and group tuition pricing
This program takes a compassionate and thoughtful approach to discussing sensitive topics. Participants will engage with people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives to challenge assumptions, clarify values, and consider new viewpoints.
Tuition pricing
- $2,594 (individual)
- Includes all materials and fees
- Includes symposium registration, breakfast and lunch
- Corporate Affiliates partner program discounts available
- Private group rates are available (please inquire)
Learning Goals
Completing a diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) certificate prepares individuals for various organizational and leadership roles focused on cultivating more inclusive environments. The DEIB certificate demonstrates knowledge that helps professionals contribute to organizational and system change, strategic diversity planning, program development, team coaching, advisory capacities, policy review, patient care and service, and more. Participants in the DEIB certificate will have the opportunity to:
- Develop knowledge of concepts like privilege, bias, structural inequities, inclusive climates, and diversity strategies
- Build self-awareness of unconscious biases and how they impact interactions and behaviors
- Apply skills for championing diversity, equity and inclusion, such as compelling communication, leading change across differences, conflict resolution, program management, data analytics and cultural competency
- Expand their diversity and inclusion vocabulary and tools, enabling more transparent dialogue and consciousness-raising and leading to more meaningful action planning
- Access a professional peer network spanning industries committed to equity and social justice
- Contribute more fully to organizational diversity goals and equitable policy development
Flexible Program Delivery Options
- Online Low Residency
- All course content and class meetings are virtual and accessible via online technology. Muhlenberg uses the Canvas LMS and Zoom Conferencing platforms
- A mix of asynchronous independent coursework and synchronous virtual meetings with faculty
- Participants are invited to a one-day in-person symposium hosted on Muhlenberg’s campus
- Online Hybrid
- Course content and class meetings are a mix of virtual/online and in-person/classroom experiences
- Private Offering
- A mix of delivery options, including meetings on-site at the client organization's facilities
Customization
The Muhlenberg Foundations in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Noncredit Certificate program is fully customizable for your organization and designed to challenge your current thinking and approaches. We draw from our extensive curriculum library and experienced faculty to create a program that meets your organizational priorities and a particular group’s needs.
Pathways to Muhlenberg Graduate and Continuing Education Programs
- 50% tuition credit is available for any student who enrolls in an accelerated degree completion or a graduate degree program.
- Continuing education credit for prior learning
Program Modules
- The four modules outlined below are completed in one semester, 15 weeks
- Each topic is one class meeting, with one class per week
- One class is approximately 1 hour of independent work and a 2-hour synchronous session
- 51 total contact hours, including the symposium, which may satisfy professional licensure continuing education requirements
Sample Program Outline
- Introduction to Diversity, Equity, and Belonging
- Defining diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, values, and business cases
- Exploring identity and intersectionality
- Examining the impact of bias and stereotypes
- Structural and Systematic Barriers
- Exploring concepts of privilege and marginalization with a historical overview
- Exploring racial justice and equity
- Symposium: Special Topic
- Each semester, the symposia topics will change. Example topics include Grappling With Privilege, Difficult Dialogues, and Communicating Across Differences
- Exploring Equity
- Explore gender equity and sex-based discrimination
- Learn about equity for sexual orientation and gender identity minorities
- Explore generational and age diversity
- Learn about religious inclusion and how to respect religious diversity in the workplace
- Discover how ensure inclusion for those with disabilities and accommodation needs
- Inclusive Environments
- Examine hiring practices
- Cultivate inclusive climates
- Explore leadership requirements for DEIB
- Learn how to turn intentions into actions
- Find out how to make a lifelong journey of DEIB and stay motivated for personal and social change
The Essential Grant Skills Certificate provides managers, directors and emerging leaders new to grant writing the opportunity to learn and practice skills in developing successful grant proposals to obtain external funding. This program will teach you what grants are and how they differ from other funding sources, the sources of grants, how to find grants, writing grants and proposal components, and budgeting. You will leave the program with the knowledge and skills to get started on the grant writing process.
This program is designed for those who are new to grant writing. During three interactive evening sessions (six hours), participants will learn:
- Grant basics
- Grant prospecting
- Program planning core concepts
- Grant writing overview
- Proposal components
- Proposal budgeting
- Grant management and stewardship
- Artificial intelligence and technology tools for grant-seeking
After completing this certificate, you will be able to:
- First, describe the grant writing process.
- Then, develop professional, competitive, compelling and successful grant proposals.
- Identify the fundamental elements of a grant proposal, such as objectives, rationale, methodology, evaluation, budget and cover letter.
This 3-night non-credit certificate provides you with the knowledge, ability and skills needed to develop and oversee grants. Set yourself apart and develop new skills with a certificate from Muhlenberg College.
- A bachelor’s degree is not required.
- Previous grant-writing experience is optional.
- Certificate issued upon program completion (participants must attend all three sessions and complete assignments to earn the certificate).
Tution: $550
Unlock your leadership potential with Muhlenberg College's Leadership Academy. Designed for professionals at all levels, our non-credit certificate program offers cutting-edge leadership and managerial training, providing you with the tools to excel in today's dynamic work environment. Whether you're aiming for personal development, degree completion, or advancing towards a career-defining graduate degree, our Leadership Academy paves the way for your success.
Project Overview
Our Leadership Academy equips you with graduate-level concepts and practices from our renowned organizational leadership program, along with critical knowledge and skills from our accelerated business administration curriculum. This intensive, customizable program focuses on:
- Diverse Leadership: Lead teams with diverse backgrounds and capabilities effectively.
- Strategic Visioning: Utilize strategic visioning processes for organizational success.
- Value-Driven Culture: Foster an institutional culture rooted in shared values and actions.
- Remote Team Management: Master the art of managing hybrid, remote, or virtual teams.
- Modern Leadership Context: Navigate leadership and management in today's political, social, and economic landscape.
Modules and Pricing
Our curriculum covers essential leadership competencies and managerial skills through interactive modules, including:
- Leadership Competencies: Change as Opportunity, Leading Teams, Human Behavior, Strategy.
- Managerial Skills: Managing Organizations, Project Management, Non-Profit Economics, Accounting & Finance, Strategic Management, Human Resources, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Pricing (per person):
- Onsite: $875 per 2-day course
- Offsite: $1,010 per 2-day course (includes breakfast and lunch)
Workshop Packages:
- 3 Course Workshop: Onsite $2,625 | Offsite $3,030
- 5 Course Workshop: Onsite $4,375 | Offsite $5,050
- Custom Workshop: Contact us for pricing
Muhlenberg College has a long tradition of excellence in liberal arts and premedical education. Today’s practicing physicians often lament that the art of medicine is becoming deemphasized, with an ever-increasing focus on cost-reduction efficiencies, payment-driven metrics, and top-down clinical practice guidelines. This depersonalization of the doctor-patient relationship is widely considered to be a significant contributor to physician burnout. Providing physicians an opportunity outside of daily practice to reconnect with the humanistic aspects of medicine is a potential remedy to this area of concern. It may help promote increased physician wellness/career satisfaction.
The mission of this program is to offer a noncredit series of lectures focused on the medical humanities to help address physician burnout and the desire of physicians to expand and enhance their understanding of themselves as medical practitioners and the experience of the patients and families they serve.
Our Project Management Certificate Program (PMCP) is designed to give seasoned or aspiring Project Managers the necessary tools to carry out the roles and responsibilities of a Project Manager.
In this highly competitive job market, employers retain and hire only the most highly qualified individuals—those candidates who can demonstrate knowledge of relevant and in-demand career skills. Muhlenberg’s Project Management Certificate meets both objectives. This 4-course non-credit certificate gives you the knowledge, ability and skills needed to take initiatives from inception to completion. So set yourself apart and prepare for the next level of your career with a certificate from Muhlenberg College.
- Fully online for maximum flexibility
- No bachelor’s degree required
- No previous knowledge of project management required
- Career-focused classes aligned to the skills employers are seeking
- Certificates are issued for each course in addition to the overall program certificate
- Finish in one semester
- Counts toward your educational requirements for PMI Certification
Admissions and Tuition
There is no bachelor's degree or prior experience needed to complete our certificate program. The registration and pricing structure is as follows:
- Single course: $908 per course
- Two or three courses: 6% discount
- Complete program: 12% discount ($3,196 total)
2026 Schedule
You will earn your certificate in the span of a 16-week semester by taking two classes during the first eight weeks and another two for the second eight weeks. The Fall 2026 schedule is structured as follows:
- Managing Relationships: Aug. 31 - Oct. 19; Class to meet Monday, Aug. 31, from 6 - 10 p.m. and then complete asynchronously.
- Project Management Theory and Practice: Sept. 2 - Oct. 21; Class to meet Wednesday, Sept. 2 from 6 - 10 p.m. and then complete asynchronously.
- Project Management Office: Oct. 26 - Dec. 14; Class to meet Monday, Oct. 26, from 6 - 10 p.m. and then complete asynchronously.
- Earned Value Budgeting: Oct. 28 - Dec. 16; Class to meet Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 6 - 10 p.m. and then complete asynchronously.
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