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Purdue University and has partnered with the nonprofit Safe Surgery Initiative to offer an affordable online course for Safe Surgery to facilitate training in sterile services at its partner hospitals. View

Purdue University is adding an online master’s degree in nuclear engineering to its highly ranked online engineering graduate programs designed for professional engineers looking to enhance their knowledge and skills and advance their careers. View

Purdue University is offering a new all-online master’s degree in data science in finance with a concentrated curriculum focus on machine learning to solve modern financial problems. View

Purdue University is offering a new online Master of Health Administration degree designed to train the next generation of health care administrators and to boost the skills and careers of early-career administrators already in the field. View

With a new online course called Agile Strategy for Healthcare’s Wicked Problems, Purdue University is aiming to help fill the need for collaborative teams skilled at developing shared solutions. View

A new online professional master’s degree in information security from Purdue University is designed for early and mid-career computing professionals who want to enhance their skills, expand their educational credentials and advance their careers in organizations large or small. View

Purdue’s Master of Science in graduate studies with a major in corporate training and communication is designed to enhance skills of those charged with communicating and leading training in a variety of organizations and contexts. The new online degree includes an emphasis on uses of strategic communication and of instructional design and technology in corporate training and development. View

Purdue University and Evidence In Motion (EIM) are expanding their partnership to offer two new specialty certifications for licensed health care providers in the U.S. – a certification in lifestyle medicine and an integrative behavioral health certification for rehab providers. View

Professionals in marketing, financial services, the retail industry, project management and many other fields who want to boost or reset their careers can take a leap in that direction with a certificate program in data analytics now offered by Purdue University. View

As they did in 2020, Purdue's online graduate engineering programs rank third overall in U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking of the Best Online Programs in the nation. Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering all ranked No. 1 in their categories. View

Digital Media Analytics, a new series of seven online courses from Purdue University designed to make savvy social media data crunchers of almost anyone. Individuals who complete the courses will come away knowing how to use social media analytics to glean information from the data, answer questions and generate actionable, data-driven recommendations and decisions. View

The 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp again. But while the crop is now a viable alternative with a potentially global market, there isn’t exactly an abundance of research-backed information and training available about producing, processing and selling it. The new online Hemp Essentials course from Purdue University addresses that, going beyond just production, although that topic certainly is covered. View

Purdue University is offering new cybersecurity short courses in social engineering and digital forensics as part of a growing suite of offerings through the Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s Cyber Education Network Training Resources (CENTR). View

Purdue University has divided its popular Wine Appreciation course into nine modules that can be purchased individually. The mini courses each cover wines from a particular region with wine tasting suggestions, as well as some of the history, scientific principles and practices of wine growing and making in the region. View

Purdue University’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources is teaming with Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow and the Max McGraw Foundation on a new online course that delves into the cultural, biological, economic and policy aspects of hunting. View

Purdue University is offering a new series of Data Science in Finance courses focusing on applications of data science and machine learning to solve modern financial problems and leading to a certificate in the burgeoning field. View

Even before the pandemic, health care was a complex business with multilayered challenges begging for innovative approaches to problem solving and finding breakthrough solutions. COVID-19 has only ramped up the stakes and made the need more pressing. View

Purdue University’s online Applied Data Analytics in Technology Graduate Certificate is a three-course, for-credit series designed for working professionals who need the ability to gather, refine and draw insights from data, as well as visualize and present the results, to make better data-driven decisions – but who don’t necessarily need a full master’s degree. View

Grace College juniors and seniors will have the opportunity beginning in the spring of 2021 to gain additional qualifications to jumpstart their master’s degrees as undergraduates. An innovative partnership between Grace College and Purdue University lays the groundwork for similar partnerships with other colleges. View

Purdue University is offering a new affordable master’s degree in civil engineering through edX, with support from Kaplan Higher Education, allowing working professionals ready access to Purdue’s highly ranked civil engineering master’s program entirely online. View

Purdue’s Data Storytelling program is a series of four noncredit online courses that teach how to convey information and insights from data so that an audience will not only remember the message but learn from and apply it. View

Purdue Global is offering a new Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) dual degree option. The program offers advanced nursing and business skills that will allow students to qualify for executive-level leadership positions in health care and beyond. View

Purdue is offering a new online version of its Certified Ethical Hacker course, which leverages Purdue’s highly ranked cybersecurity program and faculty to give those who complete the course a career boost in cybersecurity, one of the hottest job markets. View

Purdue University is offering a new series of three online engineering courses to students aspiring to a career in the health care industry and people currently employed in the field. View

Purdue is offering a new online course in Agile Project Management designed to prepare participants to apply the Agile methodology in their own work and enhance their careers. The course also is useful in preparing for the Project Management Institute (PMI) ® Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) ® and Project Management Professional (PMP) ® exams. View

Purdue’s Digital Ready Businesses workshop series is now available, allowing participants to learn where and when it is convenient. The workshops provide small businesses, entrepreneurs and community organizations with basic knowledge they need to establish an effective online presence. View

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Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education is expanding its graduate degree program, already well known for its doctoral degree, with a new master’s degree in engineering education that students can earn entirely online. View

State-of-the-art methods in steel and concrete composite construction are the focus of a new series of online courses from Purdue University’s top-ranked Lyles School of Civil Engineering. The courses are for working engineers and technical professionals looking to update their skills and log professional development hours, as well as for graduate students. View

Purdue University is offering its top-ranked online master’s degree in mechanical engineering through edX with support from Kaplan Higher Education, allowing working professionals to earn the 30-hour master’s entirely online for less than $25,000. View

More than 6.6 million postsecondary students in the U.S. were seeking their degrees at least partly online in 2017. Inside Higher Ed, relying on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education data, more than 33 percent of students reported taking at least one course online. View

The College of Agriculture’s Urban Agriculture team is launching the online Urban Agriculture Certificate in partnership with Purdue Online, to be offered 100% online. Registration is open, and the “Growing Guide for Healthy Crops” course begins March 16. View

Purdue University is partnering with design and development company Socratic Arts to offer the Cyber Academy, a 30-week cybersecurity training program designed to train candidates with basic computer skills and a desire to learn about cybersecurity. View

Experts urge prospective international students to check if their home country accepts and recognizes online degrees. View

Purdue Online has partnered with Evidence In Motion (EIM), a leading provider of online and hybrid health care education, to offer the therapeutic pain specialist certification for licensed health care professionals in the U.S. and around the world. View

Purdue University's College of Engineering online graduate engineering programs were ranked third, up two spots, in U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking of Best Online Programs. View

The schools of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering are planning to offer affordable online master’s programs through edX with support from Kaplan Higher Education. View

New Balance Athletics, Inc., the Boston-based global athletic leader, today announced an agreement with Purdue Global that provides a new tuition benefit program for its associates in the United States. View

Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management will begin offering a two-year, fully online MBA program in January 2020. View

Purdue University through its Purdue Online initiative is teaming with Simplilearn, an international online training company, and IBM to offer a range of courses for professionals looking to jump start careers in the burgeoning field of data science. View

Purdue Online launched a unified web portal Wednesday (Aug. 21), giving prospective students the ability to search and find online programs across the entire Purdue system on one website. At launch, the portal at online.purdue.edu features over 210 online programs and an additional 150 degree specializations. View

The Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine has entered into a partnership with Ethos Veterinary Health and VetBloom, an innovative veterinary learning ecosystem, to create a pathway that allows members to earn an online veterinary nursing degree through Purdue University. The new partnership will allow VetBloom members to enroll in Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s Veterinary Nursing Distance Learning program, whose graduates earn an associate in applied science degree and receive the preparation necessary to seek state credentialing as a Registered/Licensed/Credentialed Veterinary Technician. View

Purdue Global, a public, accredited nonprofit online institution of higher education, has signed a partnership agreement with Trilogy Health Services, one of the largest senior care providers in the Midwest with over 100 locations across four states, to provide a fully funded education employee benefit program that enhances one of the most utilized tuition assistance programs in the country. View

Securitas Security Services USA, Inc., the knowledge leader in the protective services industry, today announced an exclusive partnership with Purdue Global to offer four security certificate programs to enhance the knowledge and skills of its security officers, and significant financial benefits to assist officers in earning associate and bachelor degrees. View

Now Purdue University is partnering with two Fortune 500 corporations — Cisco Systems and Eli Lilly and Co. — to offer flexible online programs to employees to boost their performance. Partnerships with businesses desiring to upgrade employee skills through existing or tailored programming, featuring measurable outcomes and backed by Purdue’s disciplinary and educational delivery expertise, is one emphasis of Purdue Online. View

Innovative partnership offers all the ingredients for affordable education to further career growth for team members Papa John’s announced a new tuition benefit program for its 20,000 corporate team members that is unique in the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry. The tuition reimbursement education program, offered in partnership with Purdue Global, covers 100 percent of tuition costs of undergraduate and graduate online degree programs for Papa John’s corporate team members. View

David Starnes, chief academic officer of the online college borne from the Purdue-Kaplan deal, discusses its twist on competency-based and modular education. View