Arizona State University’s graduate certificate in program evaluation is designed to deepen your evaluation capacity and strengthen your analytical skills. In this program, you’ll develop expertise in impact evaluation through evidence-based quantitative approaches. These data-driven skills are in high demand across a variety of industries to show the effectiveness of an organization’s program usages.
Next start date: 01/13/2025
Total classes: 5
Weeks per class: 7.5
Total credit hours: 15
Program evaluation is a structured approach to gather, analyze and apply data for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of programs. This evaluation has a key emphasis on implementing improvements that benefit the program’s continual performance progression. Program evaluation is an important process of research throughout many industries to determine if a project or program achieves its desired goals. Utilizing this style of evaluation has become a routine operation for a wide range of industries to ensure that resources are being used appropriately.
A number of different jobs require well-developed program evaluation skills. Industries that commonly employ program evaluators include educational institutions, governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, private companies and more. These professionals are highly skilled and apply several factors to deploy data-driven techniques that access the program efficiency for their organization's intended purposes.
Upon completing this certificate, you’ll be prepared to take over evaluation responsibilities in your current role or expand your evaluation toolkit for a career switch.
An ideal candidate is a student who possesses a strong drive to achieve social impact and has obtained either an undergraduate or graduate degree in the field of social science. If you’re an undergraduate student, this certificate offers you valuable professional skills that benefit career opportunities and earning potential in your early career stages. This certificate program would also be valuable if you’ve completed a graduate degree and are contemplating an educational return for a specialization after working in the field.
This certificate complements degrees in substantive fields, including criminology, economic development, education, health care, social services and more. Whether you’re just beginning your career in program evaluation or looking to upskill, this graduate certificate in program evaluation can help you reach your goals.
If you’re interested in full-time quantitative evaluation roles, you should consider the Master of Science in evaluation and data analytics.