Several Natural Resources and Environment students each year decide to take advantage of the University of Michigan's variety of quality academic programs and interdisciplinary resources to pursue a graduate certificate. These programs allow the student to design a course of study that integrates each of his/her fields of interest. The school administers the Industrial Ecology and Spatial Analysis graduate certificate programs.

Both certificate programs can be pursued by current University of Michigan graduate students in conjunction with a degree-seeking program, or independent of any other graduate programs, provided the applicant has received a post-baccalaureate degree within the previous five years.

Graduate certificate credit-hour requirements can be reduced when enrolled concurrently in a Rackham graduate degree program by one-sixth of the number of required hours for the degree program. For example, students may integrate the 16-credit-hour Program in Industrial Ecology certificate with a 36-credit-hour M.S. program (totaling 52 credit hours) into a 46-credit-hour program, with 6 credits double-counted.

Admission Requirements

• Rackham application (the short "Application for Readmission, Change of Program or Dual Degree" if already enrolled in a Rackham graduate program; the regular application and fee if a new applicant to University of Michigan Rackham graduate school, or already enrolled in a non-Rackham program)
• One page statement of interest
• Current resume
• Official Transcripts (Current U of M students may have these documents forwarded from their current program to the Graduate Admissions Office at Natural Resources and Environment)
• Official GRE scores (Current U of M students may have these documents forwarded from their current program to the Graduate Admissions Office at Natural Resources and Environment