Learn and hone career-ready skills by earning industry-leading certificates for high-demand career paths.
UT Austin graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have FREE access to online learning for one or more of the following course and professional certificate programs.
Career Academy
Student Certificate Program Registration
The Career Academy ranges across four areas—Software Engineering & IT, Data Science & Analytics, Sales & Marketing, Business Operations & Support—and features certificate-based courses designed by leading companies such as Google, IBM, Intuit, Meta, PwC and Salesforce.
The Career Academy is organized into 29 job categories, each of which offers a number of certificate-based courses and guided projects.
Categories include:
Marketing Analyst
Social Media Marketer
Sales Development
iOS Developer
Technology Consultant
Human Resources Specialist
Data Analyst
Project Manager
Cybersecurity Analyst
Data Scientist
Faculty/Staff Career Academy Registration
UT Austin Faculty and Staff have access to Career Academy. Visit the link above to get started.
GenAI Academy
Student Certificate Program Registration
GenAI Academy offers a curation of projects, courses and certificates related to generative artificial intelligence, the technology transforming the future of work. Students can learn the following skills through GenAI Academy:
Prompt engineering: Learn how to create effective prompts that yield the results you need from generative AI.
Communication and ideation: Build your communication and writing skills to improve the clarity and effectiveness of your generative AI prompts.
AI ethics: Tools like generative AI transform how we work and live today. Explore AI ethics to learn how to use such technology safely and responsibly.
Cybersecurity: Learn how to operate AI tools and technology in a secure, safe way.
Programming languages: Those who wish to create digital tools powered by generative AI, such as chatbots, will need a strong grasp of programming languages like Python or C++.
Top Tech
Student Certificate Program Registration
This program of courses and guided projects offers a curation of top technology tools used in the current job market as well as topics related to technology fields.
Students can learn and practice:
Intro to AI
Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies
IoT
Google – Docs, Gmail, Drive
Microsoft – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Big Data Emerging Technologies
Data Visualization
Asana
Wrike
Tableau
Grow with Google
Student Certificate Program Registration
To register for Grow with Google, choose the Career Academy program.
Prepare for a new career in a high-growth field, no experience required. Through Grow with Google certificates, you’ll get professional training designed by Google, along with the opportunity to connect with top employers that are currently hiring.
Google offers certificates in Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing & E-commerce, Project Management, IT Support and User Experience Design.
Students have six months to complete one of the six professional certificate programs. After completing all courses required for each particular program you will receive a Google branded certificate to put on your LinkedIn profile. There is no cost to students.
Why earn a Google Career Certificate?
A path to in-demand jobs: Connect directly with top employers, like Deloitte, Infosys, Walmart, Shopify and Verizon that are currently hiring.
150+ employers in the Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium.
No experience necessary: Learn job-ready skills, even with no relevant experience.
1,500,000+ in-demand job openings across certificate fields.
Learn at your own pace: Complete the online program on your own terms.
Under 10 hours of flexible study per week.
Stand out to employers: Make your resume competitive with a credential from Google.
Access to Employers
Students who complete certificates have access to the Career Certificate Employer Consortium, comprised of 150+ employers across the United States that are looking to hire qualified talent and have committed to consider hiring graduates of the Google Career Certificates. Participating employers engage with students through interview days and an interactive job board, exclusive to certificate graduates.
Companies that have hired Career Certificate graduates include Cognizant, Kforce, Ricoh USA, TEKsystems and Google. Employer consortium members like Molecula and Infosys have also made commitments to hire Google Career Certificate graduates in the hundreds, and in some cases, the thousands.