The online graduate certificate in Community Development (CD) will provide foundations of the CD field and associated theories. Opportunity for elective selections allow students to pursue subtopics related to community development such as community leadership & capacity building, community economic strategies, international development, not-for-profit management, and/or sustainable communities.

This Community Development graduate certificate is a 12 credit hour online collaborative interinstitutional certificate offered through the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning in cooperation with the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (GPIDEA). Participating universities include Kansas State University, Iowa State University, North Dakota State University, University of Nebraska, and South Dakota State University. Students may enroll in this collaborative program at any of the participating universities. While the certificate name may vary by university, the curriculum will be comparable, and courses offered in the program will be the collaborative result of a divergent faculty from within the participating universities.