Bolster your Professional Credentials with an Online Certificate in Sustainability
Help make your community — and your career — more sustainable with Northern Vermont University’s new sustainability certificate. This program, housed in Northern Vermont University’s Business Administration Department, and offered completely online, focuses on a practical approach to sustainability in the workplace. You'll gain the skills to help lead a company, nonprofit, or government agency in improving its environmental and social impacts.
Broaden your current degree, or expand your career opportunities.
Gain practical knowledge that serves your career and your community.
Vermont is an ideal learning laboratory for sustainability. You’ll have valuable real-world opportunities that could include:
- Developing a business plan
- Learning about green building practices and renewable energy
- Working with food supply networks
- Creating interpretive programs and self-guided trails in protected natural areas
Interdisciplinary courses related to health and wellness, ethics and politics, climate science, tourism, and other subjects will be offered. You'll finish the program prepared to apply your skills in fields ranging from renewable energy and supply chain management to craft brewing and consumer products.
Gainful Employment Disclosure
Like all institutions of higher education in the United States that serves students eligible for federal loans and grant funding, Northern Vermont University is required to publish a gainful employment disclosure (GED) about certain certificate programs. You can find the GED for the certificate in sustainability program here.