What We Offer
University of Minnesota Online programs are equivalent to on-campus degrees and certificates, generally with the same instructors, program requirements, and curriculum. Your transcripts and diploma will reflect your U of M degree and will not indicate that the degree was obtained online.
Programs are offered either fully online, primarily online (short residency), or partially online (50-80% delivered online). Visit General Information for complete definitions.
Note: This may not be a comprehensive list of all the University of Minnesota's online and hybrid programs. Please check with the individual unit for additional offerings.
Undergraduate Certificates
Provides you with valuable information and expertise regardless of your specialty in agribusiness.
The Certificate in Applied Business has four focus areas designed for maximum relevance at minimum cost.
Designed specifically for non-business school and pre-MBA students, this fully online certificate provides an overview of business management processes.
A first-of-its-kind program presented in an accessible and stimulating format that allows you to continue your current employment while earning a certificate.
Understand the complete building life cycle from a multidisciplinary perspective
Covers such diverse topics as corporate finance, insurance and risk management, estate planning, investments and money, banking, and financial institutions.
Provides fundamental knowledge in the business of health care and customizable elective courses to best fit the educational need of the individual.
Graduates will be able to supervise a manufacturing process, manage human and mechanical resources within budgetary constraints, and ensure product quality.
Prepares students to sit for the National Association of Nursing Home Administrator Board exam.
Explore the many different aspects of sport and recreation management.
A fully online, five-course certificate designed to prepare you for a career in tax preparation.
Graduate Certificates
Discover new strategies and tools, implement effective programs, and become an influential advocate for underserved learners.
Learn key aspects of study design, implementation, and analysis for both observational and clinical studies.
The certificate in Dual Language and Immersion (DLI) Education is designed to prepare already-licensed pre-K−12 educators to teach effectively in DLI classrooms.
A first-of-its-kind program presented in an accessible and stimulating format that allows you to continue your current employment while earning a certificate.
Enhance your human sexuality knowledge and earn a specialized credential.
We believe that all work with children and families should be relationship-based, culturally sensitive, grounded in theory and research, and supported by reflective practice.
An innovative graduate-level certificate program that fosters leadership, collaboration, and innovation across the food system
Explore culture, spirituality, and healing options to enhance your professional career, your own life, and the lives of your patients.
Participate in a collaborative learning community where you learn from and with course members and instructors.
A graduate-level certificate for scientists who want to lead at the next level.
Learn how to develop and teach program curricula for health informatics, as well as how to deploy and use health information technology.
Join a learning community that stimulates and advances the ways you think about the design process.
Learn from experts and peers while reflecting on your own teaching, reading, designing, and writing.
Prepare to design, deliver, and evaluate educational programs in a variety of settings for parents and families.
Provides training that prepares public health workers and others to respond to emerging public health issues.
Prepares graduates to encourage and develop human talents in areas of academic, artistic, athletic, and other skills.
Learn about writing with digital technologies, information design, international professional communication, and editing and style.
Undergraduate Degrees
Gain a working knowledge of key concepts and theories across a range of psychological domains.
Study issues relating to tribal sovereignty, tribal governance, and federal Indian law and policy.
Prepares you to manage all aspects of the manufacturing environment, from the ability to direct budgets, people, and machines to product quality.
Learn how track down issues wherever they originate within production, processing, packaging, distribution and warehousing operations.
Teaches the fundamental and advanced techniques needed to assist future clients and firms with financial reports.
Challenge yourself in the world of agricultural sales and marketing, management, finance, and information management, both globally and locally.
Build on your experience and prepare for a leadership position to advance your career in healthcare.
Customized to meet your individual career needs, this degree can build on your past college coursework as well as occupational or program credits.
Prepares you to effectively communicate within the corporate and public forum and to meet the marketplace realities of contemporary society.
The criminal justice program is unique in that licensure and certification are embedded in the coursework, so that students can go directly from graduation to the workforce.
A degree in English will increase your skills in analysis, problem-solving, research, and written and verbal communication.
Provides students with both the theoretical and the analytical framework required to work effectively in financial institutions.
Advance your career in the management of various health care settings while learning from experts in the field.
Learn how to integrate new and advanced technology into an organization’s existing infrastructure as well as manage daily operations.
Broaden your understanding of global business operations with internationally focused courses.
Gives graduates the know-how to effectively and efficiently manage people, methods, materials, equipment, and money.
Learn the skills and strategies to help identify customer needs and wants and study the challenges facing marketers in the global business environment.
Prepares you for careers with professional, collegiate, and community sport organizations through hands-on experience, making you workforce-ready.
Graduate Degrees
Designed for executives, physicians, and health care professionals, this program allows you to advance your health care management and leadership skills and capabilities.
Tailored to working professionals seeking leadership roles in organizations that aim to improve the health of populations.
Pair your advanced degree and professional experience with a flexible, hybrid MPH degree.
Learn how to draw on developmental science to address the needs of children and adolescents in advocacy, community, and health care settings. Choose from one of three tracks: child life, individualized studies, or infant and early childhood mental health.
This unique program will offer new opportunities to students looking to become leaders and innovators in this rapidly evolving field.
A Carlson MBA will help you take your leadership and management skills to the next level.
Ideal for students who are interested in expanding their skills but not in the research aspects of computer science.
A professional development degree for educational scholars
Fulfills requirements for obtaining a license to teach in early childhood family education programs in Minnesota
Learn how to create customized digital applications, games, interfaces, and multimedia projects.
Designed to train individuals who are interested in using information technology to solve health care problems.
A professional degree at the intersection of science and management
One of the few dedicated MPH programs focused on maternal, reproductive, child, and family health in the country.
Training the next generation of clinical and translational researchers.
Learn theoretical and applied computer science, combined with research opportunities in nearly all areas of the field.
Prepares leaders in the profession for research, the health care industry, and academia.
Study modern electrical engineering, with interdisciplinary work available in related fields such as bioelectrical sciences, control sciences, and computer sciences.
Doctorate Degrees
Graduates work as expert clinicians and consultants in acute care settings, nursing homes, transitional care settings, and specialty practices.
Prepare to independently manage primary care needs of adults and older adults, as well as become leaders in health systems with a firm grounding in evidence-based practice and system change.
Prepares both emerging and expert innovators to become nurse executives and entrepreneurs, health care business leaders, nonprofit managers, nursing faculty, public policy advocates, and more.
Work with individuals, families, communities, and health systems in developing integrative approaches to health promotion, disease prevention, and chronic disease management.
Graduates provide clinical leadership in a complex and rapidly evolving health care system in multiple settings.
Graduates are prepared to work in teams of clinicians, computer technology staff, and administrators to transform health care using digital tools and techniques.
Nurses with a master's degree can learn more about how to improve health outcomes and care for people with complex, chronic conditions.
Prepares you for a wide variety of employment opportunities across the mental health care service spectrum, including in community-based psychiatric clinics, private practices, and inpatient psychiatric units.
Graduates specialize in educating women on prevention and health, and serving as primary care providers through chronic or acute illnesses.
Licensing Programs
An online program designed for licensed teachers who wish to add an additional Minnesota teaching license in reading through a customized plan of courses.
Prepares you to teach parent and family education in Minnesota's Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) program, as well as to pursue other teaching opportunities.