The College of Computing offers graduate-level digital badges. A digital badge, or simply “badge”, recognizes a student’s completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. A badge allows students to promote academic achievements online more effectively and in different venues than would be possible with a transcript. For example, you could link your digital badge to your LinkedIn profile. The university uses Acclaim to issue badges. Visit Acclaim to see an example of a badge.

Available 9-Credit Badges

• Biomedical Informatics: prepares students to engage with information systems in a clinical or healthcare setting. Visit the Biomedical Informatics page for more information.
• Cybersecurity: prepares students to identify, assess and address digital security threats. Visit the Cybersecurity page for more information.
• Data Analytics: prepares students to understand and work with big and complex data sets across multiple disciplines. Visit the Data Analytics page for more information.
• Database Management: prepares students to master concepts of relational and non-relational databases. Visit the Database Management page for more information.
• Distributed Computing: prepares students to solve the difficult issues related to having computers cooperate in solving a problem. Visit the Distributed Computing page for more information.
• Information Systems Management: prepares students to engage with information systems and software project management in a business setting. Visit the Information Systems Management page for more information.
• Software Design and Development: prepares students to become a modern software developer. Visit the Software Design and Development page for more information.
• Software Engineering: prepares students for deep knowledge of software engineering practice. Visit the Software Engineering page for more information.
• Web and Mobile Computing: prepares students to design and create web and mobile applications using modern development frameworks. Visit the Web and Mobile Computing page for more information.

Learn about our 3-credit badges by viewing the pages below:

• Data Mining Fundamentals
• Digital Forensics Fundamentals
• Information Security Fundamentals
• Information Systems Project Management Fundamentals
• Information Visualization Fundamentals
• Mobile Application Fundamentals
• Web Application Fundamentals