Continuing Professional Education & Certifications
Learning is a Lifelong Adventure
Throughout life, curiosity continues and new opportunities arise. That’s why the University of Arizona offers non-credit, online, and in-person Continuing and Professional Education. Advance your career, learn a new skill, earn a certification, explore your interests, and connect with other inquisitive minds – or all of the above!
Fuel Your Curiosity
The University of Arizona is home to many learners like you who are achieving their goals through our non-credit short courses and certificate programs.
Increase your proficiency or learn an entirely new set of skills, from AI Prompting to Beekeeping.
Short-term, non-credit courses.
Add Business Analytics, CompTIA or other in-demand certifications to your resume.
Certification exam preparation courses.
Boost your career or pave the way for a career change with a professional certificate.
In-depth, non-credit certificate programs that go beyond a single course.
Grow Professionally
Seminars and Lecture Series
Premier adult education experiences through classes taught by University of Arizona faculty on topics spanning the breadth of campus expertise and knowledge.
A free public lecture series providing an annual focus on science topics that impact our community and world.
Learning opportunities from full courses to shorter, cultural immersion experiences with University of Arizona professors and community scholars.
Opportunities by Academic Subject Matter
What’s your passion? If you’re interested in a specific niche, you can explore the continuing education and certification opportunities offered by our academic colleges and departments. This list is not comprehensive; if you don’t see what you’re looking for, contact your academic college of interest directly.
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Agricultural & Applied Economics Extension
Biosystems Engineering Extension
College of Agricultural, Life, and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension
Environmental Science Extension
Water Resources Research Center
Business and Law
Science
Curiosity Never Retires
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arizona (OLLI-UA) offers life-enriching in-person and online learning opportunities for adults 50+. Feed your curious mind and passion for knowledge in a community of lifelong learners.
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For the Love of Learning
When you participate in the offerings above, you will engage with professional experts and university-affiliated instructors, but will not earn academic credit nor academic certificates or degrees. Enrollment and completion in these offerings will not lead to alumni status with the University of Arizona.
To view credit-bearing offerings, visit Undergraduate Degree Search or the Graduate Catalog.