Bring Google Career Certificates to your community college
or CTE high school for free

Help your students learn job-ready skills to start or advance their careers in high-demand fields. The Google Career Certificates provide community college and career and technical education (CTE) high school students with practice-based training in fields like data analytics, IT support, project management, and user experience (UX) design.

Earning a Google IT Support Certificate helped open doors for me. I hope that I can inspire other Black girls and women to work in IT.

Natalie Burns

Landed a job as a Cybersecurity Assistant after earning an associate degree at Dallas College and a Google IT Support Certificate

Natalie Burns

About Google Career Certificates

Google Career Certificates, available in the fields of data analytics, IT support, project management, and user experience (UX) design, get learners job ready in three to six months.

  • Designed by Google: The certificates are taught and developed by Google employees with decades of experience in these fields. We also consulted employers and industry partners — people who hire for these roles — to ensure that the content is rigorous enough to prepare learners for these jobs.
  • Practice-based: Over 150 hands-on activities and interactive assessments with the latest industry products and tools prepare learners for a job at any company.
  • Focused on underrepresented learners: The program provides opportunities for economic mobility, helping more people get on the path to careers in fast growing fields. We’re proud that 53% of our program graduates come from groups underrepresented in tech (e.g., Black, Latino, female, or veteran).1
  • A pathway to jobs: Learners can connect with top employers who are interested in hiring Google Career Certificate graduates. We also provide certificate graduates with resume and job interview resources.
  • ACE®️ recommended: Each certificate received a credit recommendation from the American Council on Education (ACE®️) – the industry standard for translating workplace learning to college credit. Students can earn a recommendation of up to 12 college credits for completing a Google Career Certificate — the equivalent of 4 college courses at the associate degree level.

Join us

Integrate Google Career Certificates into your school’s curriculum

Institutions that would be a good fit for Google Career Certificates include:

  • Community colleges with existing pathways or courses in data analytics, IT support, project management, and/or UX design
  • High schools with career tech and vocational programming
  • Schools with a focus on workforce training and partnerships

Participating institutions should consider:

  • Offering wraparound support to help students in their pursuit of continuing education and/or entering the workforce
  • Incorporating certificates into existing curriculum or school programming as either credit or non-credit offerings
  • Providing instructors with experience teaching certificate content

Learn more about Google Career Certificates here.

What schools and partners are saying

  • Walter G. Bumphus

    Providing relevant and meaningful skills that lead to careers is a hallmark of the nation’s community colleges. Working with Google to bring programs like Google Career Certificates directly to our members enhances our ability to support programs that lead to jobs that pay a family-sustaining wage. Our partnership with Google will further advance the work of building the nation’s workforce pipeline.

    -Walter G. Bumphus, Ph.D., President and CEO, AACC

  • Antonio Delgado

    The strategic collaboration between Miami Dade College (MDC) and Grow with Google has increased our opportunities to train and employ talent locally, preparing students with the most in-demand skills in the technology field. The Google certificates offered at MDC are helping our students take their careers to the next level.

    -Antonio Delgado, Dean of School of Engineering, Technology and Design, Miami Dade College

  • Beonica Frazier

    The Google IT Support Certificate has added tremendous value to the college's Workforce Solutions division. Program completers have been able to gain the confidence to further their academic pathways, gain certifications, and enter the workforce.

    -Beonica Frazier, Project Director, Bossier Parish Community College

  • Sue Baker, IT & CS Department Chair, Lakeland Community College

    The Google IT Support Certificate is a fantastic credential for our students to earn on their way to completing their degree. This credential is the perfect way to convey to potential employers that they are ready to be successful in an entry level IT support job.

    -Sue Baker, IT & CS Department Chair, Lakeland Community College

  • Katie Cunningham, Teacher, Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School

    This curricula has been great to implement as part of a hybrid model. Incorporating physical projects on the in-person days and discussion prompts of real-world scenarios on the virtual days alongside the curriculum given has really sparked students’ interest to achieve the IT Support Certificate.

    -Katie Cunningham, Teacher, Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School

Participating schools

Ready to bring the certificates to your school?

If you are an administrator or teacher at a school in the United States, you can express your interest in becoming a participating institution by completing the interest form at the link below. By submitting the linked form on Coursera.org, you agree to share your information with Google and Coursera for the purposes of tracking program and platform performance.

By clicking the link below, I acknowledge that I agree to Google's terms and privacy policy.

Disclaimer: Google Career Certificate content is provided to schools at no cost. Coursera is providing free licenses to community colleges and CTE high schools through March 31, 2023 for all CC/CTE regardless of their launch date. Students may be required by their school to pay for the courses. Google is not in charge of setting the fee structure for the courses.

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