Find your path at UNH! The Credentials to Degree program offers continuing education students the opportunity to earn career-boosting stackable microcredentials, while simultaneously earning credits toward a UNH degree.
Start Your Pathway To a UNH Degree
The Credentials to Degree program offers a flexible and structured pathway for learners to earn college credits through Continuing Education. This program allows you to sample a UNH degree or certificate, gain field experience, and accumulate transferable credits. As you complete courses, you'll earn microcredentials to showcase your earned skills and knowledge. Should you choose to continue your studies, these credits can be applied toward a formal degree upon admission.
The Power Of Microcredentials
Example of a digital badge.
A microcredential is a short, competency-based recognition earned for the completion of a defined learning or training curriculum. Microcredentials utilize digital badges as the electronic representation of a skill, achievement, or experience. These offer a fast, affordable way for workforce professionals and students—current or returning—to gain specialized skills and stand out in the job market. Issued via Canvas Credentials, microcredentials can be easily shared and verified on social media, digital resumes, online portfolios, and email signatures.
How to Enroll:
STEP 2: REGISTRATION WINDOW OPENS
STEP 3: REGISTER!
Frequently Asked Questions
After completing the course requirements, you will receive an email notifying you that your digital badge is available. You can access the badge via the email, the course on Canva, or the Canvas Credentials website.
Badges can be shared on social media (e.g., LinkedIn), websites, or in email signatures. Here’s how to share your badge:
Learners in the Credentials to Degree program interested in continuing to a full degree should consult an admissions advisor to confirm eligibility. Completing the program and its courses does not guarantee admission to the degree program.
To continue your studies, you must formally apply and be admitted to the degree program. After admission, submit an Internal UNH Transfer Credit Request to have your credits applied to the degree program and counted toward your graduation requirements.
No, all Credentials to Degree pathways leading to a graduate degree or certificate are only available to learners who have completed an undergraduate degree. This applies to all continuing education learners wishing to take graduate courses, even if they are not pursuing a graduate degree or certificate.
Yes. There are credit load policies for how many credits you can take at once, and transfer credit policies if you want to use the continuing education credits you have earned towards a specific degree program. The Credentials to Degree programs have been designed to keep learners within those policy limits.
Explore Stackable Credentials
The Assistive Technology in Education microcredential is designed to develop expertise in assistive technology (AT) within a school setting.
Courses:
- OT 832: Intro to Assistive Technology Design & Fabrication
- OT 889: Using iPads to Support Children with Disabilities
- OT 893: Special Topics - Assistive Technology Provision in Schools
Apply this credential toward earning a Graduate Certificate in Assistive Technology.
The Managing People and Products microcredential helps you understand individual and group dynamics, improve personal influence, and lead teams and organizations through change in diverse workplaces.
Courses:
- ADMN 912: Managing Yourself & Leading Others
- ADMN 960: Marketing/Building Customer Value
Apply these credentials toward earning a Business Administration (MBA).
The Sustainable Non-Profit Organizations microcredential helps you understand how to lead sustainable nonprofit organizations by recognizing the fundamentals of creating strategies, organizing funding proposals, and leveraging collaborative partnerships.
Courses:
- APST 805: Grant Writing
- LD 827: Leading and Governing Nonprofits
Apply these credentials toward earning a Leadership (MS).
The Developing as a Leader and Inspiring Others microcredential equips learners with advanced leadership skills to guide teams, foster ethical work environments, and drive success.
Courses:
- LD804: Leading Teams
- LD 820G: Cultivating Your Leadership Capabilities
Apply these credentials toward earning a Leadership (MS).
The Inclusive Leadership microcredential empowers you to lead diverse organizations, with a focus on multiculturalism, ethical practices, and its impact on organizational behavior in the business world.
Courses:
- LD 820: Cultivating Your Leadership Capabilities
- LD 832: Building Diverse & Multicultural Organizations
Apply these credentials toward earning a Leadership (MS).
The Project Initiation and Planning microcredential teaches you to create a work breakdown structure, schedule, and budget, allocate resources, assess project risks, and set up communication.
Courses:
- PM 800: Foundations of Project Management
- PM 811: Project Chartering and Planning.
Apply this credential toward earning a Project Management (MS).
The Human Services Administration and Non-Profit microcredential sharpens your skills in cultural competency, critical thinking, and nonprofit leadership.
Courses:
- 800: Principles of Human Service Management
- LD 827: Leading and Governing Nonprofit Organizations
Apply these credentials toward earning a Human Services Administration (MS).
The Health Care Quality Management microcredential helps both clinical and non-clinical professionals master quality improvement models, implement evidence-based methods, and apply project management foundations to enhance healthcare outcomes.
Courses:
- PM800: Project Management Seminar
- HTLC 810: Health Care Quality and Safety
Apply these credentials toward earning a Health Care Management (MS).
