ECTS Credit Recommendation

Get on the fast track to a career in data analytics. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Explore the roles of data professionals within an organization
• Create data visualizations and apply statistical methods to investigate data
• Build regression and machine learning models to analyze and interpret data
• Communicate insights from data analysis to stakeholders

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 8
• Workload: approximately 201 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits.

Get on the fast track to a career in business intelligence. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Explore the roles of business intelligence (BI) professionals within an organization
• Practice data modeling and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes that meet organizational goals
• Design data visualizations that answer business questions
• Create dashboards that effectively communicate data insights to stakeholders

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 3
• Workload: approximately 76 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits.

Get on the fast track to a career in project management. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Gain an immersive understanding of the practices and skills needed to succeed in an entry-level project management role
• Learn the foundations of Agile project management, with a focus on implementing Scrum events, building Scrum artifacts, and understanding Scrum roles
• Learn how to create effective project documentation and artifacts throughout the various phases of a project

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 6
• Workload: approximately 152 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits.

Get on the fast track to a career in digital marketing. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Measure marketing performance through analytics and present insights
• Build e-commerce stores, analyze online performance, and grow customer loyalty
• Learn the fundamentals of digital marketing and e-commerce to gain the skills needed to land an entry-level job

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 7
• Workload: approximately 166 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Learn in-demand skills like Python, Git and IT automation to advance your career.

Learning outcomes:

• Automate tasks by writing Python scripts
• Manage IT resources at scale, both for physical machines and virtual machines in the cloud
• Use Git and GitHub for version control

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 5
• Workload: approximately 113 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Get on the fast track to a career in IT. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Learn to perform day-to-day IT support tasks including computer assembly, wireless networking, installing programs, and customer service
• Learn how to provide end-to-end customer support, ranging from identifying problems to troubleshooting and debugging
• Learn to use systems including Linux, Domain Name Systems, Command-Line Interface, and Binary Code

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 5
• Workload: approximately 137 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF level 5 for their designated ECTS credits

Get on the fast track to a career in Data Analytics. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Gain an immersive understanding of the practices and processes used by a junior or associate data analyst in their day-to-day job
• Learn key analytical skills (data cleaning, analysis, and visualization) and tools (spreadsheets, SQL, R programming, Tableau)
• Understand how to clean and organize data for analysis, and complete analysis and calculations using spreadsheets, SQL and R programming

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 7
• Workload: approximately 187 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Get on the fast track to a career in UX design. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Follow the design process: empathize with users, define pain points, ideate solutions, create wireframes and prototypes, test and iterate on designs
• Understand the basics of UX research, like planning research studies, conducting interviews and usability studies, and synthesizing research results
• Apply foundational UX concepts, like user-centered design, accessibility, and equity-focused design

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 9
• Workload: approximately 234 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Get ready to launch your career in cybersecurity. Build job-ready skills for an in-demand role in the field, no degree or prior experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Gain skills for incident responses and forensics with real-world cybersecurity case studies
• Develop knowledge of cybersecurity analyst tools including data protection; endpoint protection; SIEM; and systems and network fundamentals
• Learn about key compliance and threat intelligence topics important in today’s cybersecurity landscape

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 4
• Workload: approximately 128 hours
• Minimum passing score: 80%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Prepare for a career as a data analyst. Gain the in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in as little as 4 months. No prior experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Develop working knowledge of Python language for analyzing data using Python libraries like Pandas and Numpy, and invoke APIs and web services
• Master the most up-to-date practical skills and tools that data analysts use in their daily roles
• Learn how to visualize data and present findings using various charts in Excel spreadsheets and BI tools like IBM Cognos Analytics & Tableau

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 6
• Workload: approximately 151 hours
• Minimum passing score: 70%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Prepare for a career in data analytics. Gain the in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in less than 3 months. No prior experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Utilize Excel spreadsheets to perform a variety of data analysis tasks like data wrangling, using pivot tables, data mining, and creating charts
• Communicate your data findings using various data visualization techniques including, charts, plots & interactive dashboards with Cognos and R Shiny
• Master the most up-to-date practical skills and knowledge data analysts use in their daily lives

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 4
• Workload: approximately 124 hours
• Minimum passing score: 70%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Prepare for a career as a Data Engineer. Gain in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in less than 5 months. No prior experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Master the most up-to-date practical skills and knowledge data engineers use in their daily lives
• Develop working knowledge of NoSQL & Big Data using MongoDB, Cassandra, Cloudant, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Spark ML, and Spark Streaming
• Learn to create, design, & manage relational databases & apply database administration (DBA) concepts to RDBMSs such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and IBM Db2

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 8
• Workload: approximately 217 hours
• Minimum passing score: 70%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Prepare for a career as a data scientist. Develop in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in as little as 5 months. No prior experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Master the most up-to-date practical skills and knowledge that data scientists use in their daily roles
• Import and clean data sets, analyze and visualize data, and build machine learning models and pipelines
• Learn the tools, languages, and libraries use by professional data scientists, including Python and SQL

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 6
• Workload: approximately 165 hours
• Minimum passing score: 70%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF level 6 for their designated ECTS credits

Prepare for a career as a full-stack developer. Gain the in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in less than 4 months. No prior experience required.

Learning outcomes:

• Master the most up-to-date practical skills and tools that full-stack developers use in their daily lives
• Develop software with front-end development languages and tools such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Bootstrap
• Learn how to deploy and scale applications using Cloud Native methodologies and tools such as Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Serverless

Additional information:

• Recommended credits: 6
• Workload: approximately 141 hours
• Minimum passing score: 70%
• The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits