Executive Education
Executive education at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy empowers professionals with the skills and insights necessary to navigate today’s complex global landscapes.
Our innovative, dynamic and flexible programs are designed to meet the unique needs of individuals and organizations, fostering strategic thinking and agile responses to contemporary challenges. Collaborating with leading experts and leveraging cutting-edge research, we provide tailored learning experiences and various certificate programs.
Certificates for individuals
Develop new skills and build expertise in a specialized area to update your professional profile, advance your career or broaden your knowledge base. You can earn a professional graduate certificate online or on McCourt’s downtown DC campus.
Explore professional graduate certificates
This flexible certificate is designed to provide a theoretical and practical understanding of how the public policy process works, grounding in major health policies, and in-depth skills on how to influence and navigate health policy in today’s challenging political and policy environment.
The Government Affairs Institute’s Certificate Program in Legislative Studies is designed for professionals who are currently working or planning to work in an executive branch department or agency; in a congressional staff position; with an interest group, law firm, or news organization; or related positions.
The Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership’s Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program is designed to strengthen the leadership and management capacity of individuals working in or with nonprofit organizations.
Edunomics Lab’s CEF program helps participants build practical fluency in how management decisions, wide-ranging policies, and resource allocation intersect to impact student success across multiple contexts, including their own.
The Center for Youth Justice’s many certificate programs use a multi-system and multi-disciplinary approach to highlight policies, programs and practices that improve outcomes for youth at risk, including a focus on “crossover youth” — youth known to both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
The Executive Certificate in Policy Leadership from the McCourt School of Public Policy is designed to provide a practical understanding of how leaders, advocates, and change agents succeed in the public policy environment, to become grounded in the best in academic literature on policy leadership and followership, to develop in-depth skills cultivating your own meaningful leadership vision, and mastering how to persuasively communicate that vision to achieve positive and durable change, along with a dedicated followership.