A graduate certificate is an educational credential representing completion of specialized training at the college or university level.
A graduate certificate can be awarded by universities upon completion of certain coursework indicating mastering of a specific subject area.
Successful students will typically demonstrate some, but not all, of the kinds of skills, knowledge and capabilities that would be expected for a Bachelor's candidate.
[5] Graduate certificates are available in a limited range of subjects that are typically work-related, for example psychology, management, counselling or law.
[7] Graduate certificates are not equivalent to master's or doctoral degrees, typically focusing on a subset of the knowledge domain of such programmes.
[10] In teaching, holding a graduate certificate may satisfy programme-specific education requirements not met with some interdisciplinary degrees.