Petrocelli Center for Continuing Education
Our 2025 Spring and early Summer Continuing Education courses are here! Interested learners will find a variety of Personal Enrichment and Workforce Development opportunities. You can learn more and register by selecting the appropriate box below.
The Petrocelli Center for Continuing Education, housed with Lifelong Learning at FDU, offers continuing education opportunities and certificate programs for individuals, while also strategically partnering with organizations, to provide customized programs designed to address specific needs and learning objectives. Customized programs begin with the development of a tailored plan, and are created in collaboration with your organization, to address your unique needs and challenges.
Certificate Programs
The Petrocelli Center for Continuing Education collaborates with academic units throughout the University to make credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing certificate programs available to learners throughout New Jersey.
Highlighted offerings include:
Cybersecurity Certificate
This program is designed to be non-technical, for those interested in understanding cybersecurity from a business perspective.
Objectives:
- Understanding digital security risks in modern business environments
- Learning how to protect organizational information systems, and how to identify potential cyber threats and their impact
- Develop skills to respond to security challenges
- Build fundamental knowledge of digital safety practices
Empathetic Leadership Certificate
This program focuses on developing and expanding leadership skills in our ever-evolving workplaces. The program will address skills such as:
- Fostering an inclusive culture of well-being and care for employees and clients
- Leading difficult conversations
- Transparently addressing conflict
- Problem-solving with a focus on engaging employees
Other credit-bearing, undergraduate, and graduate-level certificates that are available include:
- Computer Programming
- Computer Security
- Non-profit Organizational Development
- Accounting and Finance
- Management and Digital Marketing
- Sports Administration
- Pharmaceutical Management
To see more of our undergraduate and graduate certificate programs, use the FDU Program Finder with the ‘certificate’ program level selected.
Customized Programs
Customized Programs can provide organizations with many benefits including:
- The ability to choose from a variety of learning modalities: asynchronous online, in-person, remote with Zoom meetings, or hybrid courses
- Access to world-renowned faculty who are experts in their field
- The opportunity for employees to expand their knowledge, develop new skills, and form new connections in their areas of interest
- Courses and training are offered on-site at partner locations, online, or at the Metropolitan and Florham Campuses in New Jersey
- The opportunity to develop your organization’s new talent pipeline by working directly with FDU’s Office of Career Development
- Short and long-term certificate programs designed to refresh employee skills or gain new knowledge in key areas