Dec 07, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Social Marketing and Social Change Graduate Certificate


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Department: Dean’s Office
 

The online Social Marketing and Social Change Graduate Certificate is a self-supporting program.  A cost comparison of tuition and fees can be found here.

Please note: With the exception of the Department of Children and Family (DCF) waivers, all other waivers (including State of Florida and USF employee) are not accepted for Self-Funded/Self-Supporting or Market Rate Tuition program courses.  For additional information, visit: USF Tuition Waiver.

 


 
The Graduate Certificate in Social Marketing is offered to graduate students and professionals who wish to develop the skills needed to develop, implement, and evaluate social marketing programs. The Certificate coursework emphasizes translation of theory and evidence‐based practice into community applications.
 
The University of South Florida, College of Public Health, has been a leader in social marketing in public health for over 25 years.The Certificate was developed to meet the training needs of graduate students and professionals from multiple disciplines including public health, healthcare, mass communications, environmental studies, anthropology, social work, engineering, and business. Out‐ of‐ state and international learners are welcome in the certificate program. USF has the distinction of being the only World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Social Marketing. Certificate students participate in asynchronous classes with fulltime graduate students and may later apply credits to a full-time graduate program, if desired.

Graduate Certificate Admissions and Process


Students must apply and be admitted into the Graduate Certificate to be eligible to receive a Graduate Certificate. Applicants are encouraged to contact the Graduate Certificate Director prior to applying. 

Applicants must meet the following admission requirements:

  1. University Admission Requirements, including English Proficiency    
  2. Graduate Certificate Admission Requirements    

Graduate Certificate Time Limit


Five (5) Years.

Graduate Certificate Completion


For procedures to confirm completion of the Graduate Certificate, please refer to the website.

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