CQUALR - Qualitative Research Graduate Certificate

This 18-credit hour graduate certificate is offered by the Department of Educational Leadership in collaboration with other departments within the College of Education. This certificate was created in response to the demand for trained qualitative researchers at the national and international levels. The need for trained qualitative researchers reflect an interdisciplinary demand, such as those who can work in academia, public health, non-profit sector, business and marketing, amongst others.

This program is suitable for anyone who wants to use qualitative inquiry in their professional spaces. This would include people who want to conduct qualitative inquiry in their scholarly, or scholarly practitioner projects. Students will be introduced to learning qualitative methods from a broad social science perspective so they understand how qualitative research has been taken up in education and other fields. This experience will allow students to make connection between different parts of the inquiry process, thereby developing a stronger understanding of how to conceptualize, execute, and report projects conducted through qualitative inquiry.

This certificate may connect with one or more master degree programs. At the recommendation of the academic program, students may apply credits earned through this graduate certificate completion towards a graduate program at Kansas State University, provided that all Graduate School policies are fulfilled.