College of Education

The Research, Measurement, and Statistics specialization offers a Graduate Academic Certificate in Qualitative Research. The courses prepare a person to teach qualitative research courses in higher education institutions (when accompanied by a Ph.D.) or accept a qualitative research position in the private industry.

Why Earn a Qualitative Research Certification?
There are tens of thousands of qualitative research jobs in the U.S. public and private sectors across a diverse variety of settings including, but not limited to, colleges and universities, research and development firms, education consulting services, healthcare centers, marketing agencies, human resources firms, and local and state government.

This program is for potential and practicing researcher scholars, both within and outside of the academy, who are or foresee being in a position to engage in qualitative research practices in education, policy, business, evaluation, intervention work, and more. When completed, the Qualitative Research Graduate Academic Certificate is listed on a student’s official transcript. All six of the certificate courses can also be used in various Master’s and doctoral degree plans, should a student decide to pursue a graduate degree along with the certificate.

• Gain deep expertise in qualitative inquiry
• Engage in a range of qualitative and mixed-method research examples and nimbly apply a broad range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks
• Courses blend theory and application, contributing to a comprehensive grounding in qualitative inquiry