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Professional Certifications
Get yourself an edge in the marketplace by developing job specific skills that are in demand at industry-leading companies.
About certifications
You can supplement your Beloit education by earning a professional certificate. These career training programs are designed by industry leaders at world-leading companies to give you skills that you need for success as a leader at Beloit and beyond. By taking courses through Coursera, you will earn certificates offered by Google, IBM, Meta, and other companies.
To earn a certificate, you will complete multiple courses, which are available online at any time throughout the year. Coursera is organized by certificates and makes clear what courses you need to take to earn the certificate. While you must take all courses specified to earn a specific certificate, you are free to enroll in any single courses that meet your targeted goals.
Certifications are not credit
These opportunities are intended to supplement, not replace, a Beloit College education. These courses and certificates are delivered through Coursera and certified by various third parties (e.g, Google, Meta, Salesforce, IBM). Coursera courses do not result in Beloit College credit and do not appear on Beloit transcripts.
Students who have earned certificates through Coursera may post badges on LinkedIn and indicate completion on their resumes.
Getting started on a certification
If you are a student:
- Complete Professional Certifications Request Form for Students.
- Please ask a faculty or staff member to complete this Professional Certifications Recommendation Form.
If you are an alumni:
- Please fill out the Professional Certifications Request Form for Students.
- There is no recommendation required.
Once we have received your forms, a member of the Career Works staff will be in touch to provide you access to the Coursera platform.
Available Courses
Below are examples of course content and structure for the Coursera Academy. All courses are subject to change.
- Google Project Management: This 6-course series covers foundations, project initiation and planning, Agile approaches, and applying project management in the real world.
- Salesforce Sales Operations: In this 4-course series, you will learn to build reports, charts and dashboards in Salesforce, a leading customer management software.
- Salesforce Sales Development Representative: In this 5-course series, you will prepare a professional portfolio to develop your personal brand and strategies for your professional success. The course covers workflows and tech tools.
- HRCI Human Resources: This 5-course series covers talent acquisition, learning and development, compensation and benefits, employee relations, and compliance and risk management.
- Google Data Analytics: This 8-course series covers analyzing data to ask questions, preparing data for exploration, data visualization, data analysis with R, and a data analytics case study.
- Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce: This 7-course series covers the foundations of digital marketing, and then teach you to attract and engage customers, convert online engagement to sales leads, access the success of your work, and build and launch an e-commerce store.
- Meta Social Media Marketing: This 6-course series will show you how to create a social media presence, manage social media accounts, create add campaigns, develop effective posts, and evaluate your results.
- Google IT Support: This 5-course series covers the fundamentals of technical support, computer networking, operating systems, system administration, and IT security.
- Google IT Automation with Python: This 8-course series covers using the programming language Python to interact with operating systems and automate real-world tasks. It also introduces GitHub and troubleshooting techniques in Python.
- Google UX Design: This 7-course series covers the foundations of user experience (UX) design, the UX design process, building wireframes and prototypes, conducting UX research, building user interfaces, and designing a user experience for social good.