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You must have a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university to register for any of the Graduate Instructional Technology Certificate Programs. Please note: Due to changes in the tuition and fees for online certificates, DO NOT send in your registration form until you have spoken directly with Dr. Hohlfeld.

For example, if you are a Florida resident and enroll immediately in an online certificate program, you will be charged $456.79/hour for tuition; however, if you enroll in a graduate program (and earn the certificate along the way), the standard graduate tuition will apply (currently $ $331.79/hour). In addition, you can take one course as a non-degree-seeking student (at the standard tuition rate) prior to enrolling in a Certificate program. Be aware, however, that you must submit an application for each certificate you wish to earn prior to completion of more than two of the certificate's required courses. If, for instance, a given certificate involves completion of four courses, the Departmental Approval Form for that certificate must be submitted and processed before a grade for the second course is posted.

Out-of-state, non-degree graduate certificate students admitted to a fully online graduate certificate will be charged an out-of-state matriculation fee of $478.26; however, these students will receive a waiver of $478.26 per credit hour for fully online graduate certificate credits taken via the web. Students must be admitted to the graduate certificate and registered in the eligible course section prior to the first day of class in order to receive the waiver.

After you have discussed your options with Dr. Hohlfeld, download and complete the Graduate Certificate Enrollment/Departmental Approval Package and send it to the USF Graduate Certificate Coordinator:

University of South Florida
Office of Graduate Certificates SVC1072
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620

If you are already admitted to USF, complete just the Departmental Approval Form and send to the address above. There is an application fee of $30.00 for all graduate certificate student applicants, who are not currently enrolled in Master's, Specialist, or Doctoral programs at USF. This application fee is paid when filling out the non-degree enrollment.

To determine specific semester offerings, visit OASIS Schedule Search. Select Campus=Tampa; College=Education (Lakeland-Sarasota-Tampa); and Department=Instructional Technology for the search. When you are viewing the search results, the online courses will be identified by a W in the Delivery Method column.

Please use this Instructional Technology Graduate Certificates Course Requirements document to help you plan which IT Graduate Certificates you would like to earn. To plan when you will take these courses please refer to our three year plan for Distance Learning Courses and Face-to-Face Courses.