A good friend of my holds BA in Psychology and Graduate certificate in Human Recourses Management. She is HR manager at Fortune 500 Company. If asked her graduate certificate from well-recognized university was major factor for moving up. So it all depends. I hold graduate certificate in Information Systems from UC Irvine. Very instrumental credential, paid in full by my employer. Learner. Ops I don't understand why this message showed as a new tread. I was posting a reply to tread : Utility of graduate certificates
I can see graduate certificates being useful in conjunction with other degrees. For example, if you have a MA or MS in one field, but maybe you need more graduate credit for teaching requirements. (some CCs say you need 18 or 21 graduate credit hours in a field to teach that area.) Or You are able to get a certificate from a prestigious university (Harvard, Yale, whatever) and want the name on a resume. However, just a certificate with no degree, I don't see that being much use.
