Certificate in Public Relations and Social Media

The Public Relations and Social Media certificate is professional graduate education that will enhance your understanding of new communications platforms' current practices. The four-course certificate is offered entirely online.

This certificate is designed to fit your lifestyle, so you can grow your skills in social media without disrupting the rest of your life. Classes provide learning that will help you advance your career, make you more valuable in your workplace, keep you current with changing technology and fill gaps in your professional communications knowledge.

You can major in advertising and public relations, broadcasting, journalism, or sports media and communication with plenty of opportunities to take classes from all four. You can double major in something like history or English, political science, business, or nutrition. As a Big Ten school, Nebraska can give your life an incredible story and your story incredible life. Start here and go anywhere.

Our mission is to graduate highly competent professionals who have acquired communication and critical thinking skills appropriate to journalism, advertising, and public relations. We hold to the core principles of journalism and mass communication education and as leaders of the digital communications environment. Our mission is grounded in the First Amendment of the Constitution, which gives us a unique responsibility to serve a diverse society's needs. Through excellence in teaching and research, we educate ethical, socially responsible, well-rounded, and fair-minded graduates who will carry those traits into the real world.