Customize Your Online Program
The Road to a Degree
Finding Your Way to Academic Success
Stackable courses and credentials provide the flexibility to learn at your pace and customize your education to your interests. Choose a personalized road that fits your life and goals!
Non-credit Courses
Short-term classes help you gain general knowledge, learn a new skill, upgrade existing skills, or develop personal interests. These classes can provide foundational knowledge for a corresponding for-credit graduate course.
You can start these courses at any time and complete them at your own pace.
What's next?
- Earn a non-credit certificate
- Take a sequence of noncredit courses to earn a specialization certificate
- Enroll in the for-credit graduate course
Non-credit Course List
Coursera Platform
- Financial Planning for Young Adults
- Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors
- Issues in Supply Chain Management**
- Lactation Biology
- Moving the Needle at Work: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- Sports Turf Management: Best Practices
- Supply Chain of Agriculture**
- Sustainable Food Systems
Other Online Platforms
- Agriculture Focused Financial Planning Program (AFFP) 2023 Edition
- Agricultural Literacy for Mental Health Professionals
- Artificial Intelligence in Wealth Management & Financial Planning
- Dairy Nutrition and Diet Formulation
- Dollars & Sense: An Introduction to Personal Finance (2022 Edition)
- Golf Course Management: Best Practices
- Introduction to Cannabis
- Introduction to Personal Finance and Financial Planning
- Learn @ Illinois Extension
** denotes courses that can stack into transcriptable certificates and/or degrees
Graduate Courses
- For-credit graduate courses
- Enroll as a non-degree student to explore a variety of degree programs
- Begin in the Spring, Summer, or Fall
What's next?
- Apply the credit toward a Graduate Certificate
- Apply the credit toward a Graduate Degree Program
- Transfer credit to another university
Explore graduate courses
Online courses open to non-degree enrollment can be filtered by semester and are listed by academic department in ACES.
Stackable Graduate Certificates
- 12-credit hours, made up of 3 to 4 graduate courses
- Designed around specific skills and competencies
- Earn a transferable & stackable certificate
What's next?
- Stack three graduate certificates toward an online master's degree
Master's Degrees
- 32 to 36-credit hours
- Flexible and adaptable to fit your schedule
- Fully online
- Same rigor & same faculty you would have in the on-campus program
- Applications are accepted throughout the year
- Begin in the Spring, Summer, or Fall
Ready to get started?
We're ready to get you started on a personalized path to personal and professional growth. Reach out to learn more.
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