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Purdue Global + Google Data Analytics Certificate

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51
Total Credits
$155–$230
Average Cost per Credit
$10,230
Total Tuition (Excluding Fees)
22
Micro-Credentials

Program at a Glance

  • Understand the methods for gathering, analyzing, displaying, and sharing data effectively.
  • Learn specialized skills including SQL, Tableau, R Programming, and more.
  • Develop the foundational knowledge to prepare for industry certifications.
  • Stack your credits directly into an associate’s or bachelor’s degree while earning your certificate.
  • Complete a culminating project that can be included in your portfolio or shared with employers.

Personalize Your Program

Customize your program by earning a micro-credential in one of 20+ professional focus areas.

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Get Job Ready Skills with Purdue Global and Google

Purdue Global and Google have partnered to design certificates for working adults looking to develop skills in data analytics and other areas such as IT, business, and health care. Personalize your data analytics program with short, focused micro-credentials designed to match your career goals—whether you’re wanting to break into a new industry or build on the skills you already have.

Personalized Path

Choose from more than 20 micro-credentials to earn alongside your Google Data Analytics Certificate and learn the skills that interest you most and prepare you for the career you want.

Speed to Degree

Your goals are closer than you might think. Earn your Purdue Global + Google Data Analytics Certificate in about a year or less, and get on the fast track to your career.

Flexibility

All classes are online so you can balance your work and life obligations while completing your coursework.

Stack Your Credits

The Purdue Global + Google Data Analytics Certificate is designed to stack directly into your next academic endeavor. Your credits are eligible to apply toward an associate’s degree or bachelor’s degree, where you can reduce your program length by up to a year.

See Notes and Conditions below for important information.

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Celebrate the Wins Along the Way

Upon completion of the program, you will have earned three credentials including a Google Career Certificate, a Purdue Global micro-credential badge, and a co-branded Purdue Global diploma.

Celebrate the credentials you earn from Purdue Global and Google in this program. Show off your credentials as you earn them. Post them on your social media profiles such as LinkedIn, and highlight your skills on your resume.

What Courses Will I Take and What Skills Will I Develop?

This curriculum is designed together by Google and Purdue Global faculty. You will take data analytics courses, plus the courses from the micro-credential of your choice. You will develop in-demand, job-ready skills, such as how to analyze and process data to gain key business insights.

Data Analytics Courses

  • Data Analytics and Decision-Making
  • Relational Databases
  • Modifying and Sharing Data for Decision-Making
  • Programming and Data and Ways to Share Data
  • Data Analytics in Action

Course Outcomes

  • Data Usage: Explore the use of data across multiple industries.
  • Analysis Tools: Develop a working knowledge of essential data analysis tools (spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, R programming) and when to use them in the data lifecycle. 
  • Database: Design a relational database to include the methods for extracting, transforming and loading (ETL) data.
  • Data Visualization: Apply appropriate tools and methods to display data effectively.
  • Programming: Use R programming to manipulate data to be displayed.

Choose the Purdue Global + Google Career Certificate That Fits Your Future

The Purdue Global + Google Career Certificate courses help you build the understanding and foundational skills of data analytics, while the Purdue Global micro-credential gives you industry-specific training. Together, they give you a full picture of how to apply your new data analytics skills most effectively.

Choose from more than 20+ micro-credentials below and get started on your future. Download the program brochure to learn more.

Financial aid is available to those who qualify. Financial aid awards vary depending on individual student eligibility and need.
Note: Tuition total does not account for per-term fees. View full tuition and fee details and total cost of attendance for your program.

51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost
 

Learn the fundamentals of data analytics and supplement your studies with practical courses in accounting. Coursework covers the basics of accounting, federal tax, statistics, and mathematics.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Put what you learn in data analytics together with a business development micro-credential that’s designed to teach you the foundational information you need to grow a business through sales and marketing. This micro-credential includes courses in marketing and consumer behavior, as well as international business development and more. 

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

This micro-credential combines a broad survey of business disciplines with the practical skills of the data analytics certificate. You’ll learn accounting, finance, marketing, and management principles that you can apply to your skills as a data analyst.

View Business Fundatmentals Courses

51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Combine the skills you learn in your data analytics certificate with the fundamental education of starting and managing a business. Learn how to start a business, how to sell, and how to manage the work you’re doing.

View Business Start-up Fundamentals Courses

51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Interested in the world of cloud computing? This micro-credential will give you exposure to a broad range of topics in the industry of cloud computing to go along with your data analytics certificate. You will study the in-demand field of cloud computing, as well as building and maintaining networks and network infrastructure.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Learn the fundamentals of the fast-growing field of cybersecurity while honing your skills in the Google Data Analytics Certificate program. Coursework includes learning a broad range of disciplines such as cybersecurity, network administration, and programming.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

This micro-credential will provide you with an understanding of how to compile and present data for use in helping to make business decisions along with your Google Data Analytics Certificate work. You’ll take courses in statistics, data analysis, and more.

View Data Intelligence Courses

51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Pursuing a career in game design? The game development micro-credential provides you with the foundational programming and data analytics skills you need to succeed. Coursework includes software design and development concepts combined with art and animation skills that are critical in the game design and development industry.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Learn to manage marketing for a global business in this micro-credential. Coupled with your Google Data Analytics Certificate, you will take courses covering a variety of topics such as logistics, marketing, and business development.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The health care administration micro-credential starts an exploration into the health care industry and provides a survey of the core disciplines of health care administration. Your coursework includes the Google Data Analytics Certificate plus health care administration topics such as ethics, strategy, and general health care management.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

This micro-credential provides a foundational level of knowledge and skills in the broad arena of health informatics, enabling entry-level opportunities in health information and health informatics.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Work toward your Google Data Analytics Certificate while earning a micro-credential in health information management. You’ll get an introduction to using available services and technologies to support operations, management, and decision-making initiatives within the health information field.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The human resource management micro-credential is designed to provide you with the knowledge to effectively staff an organization. By completing this micro-credential, you will have an understanding of the factors that influence employee recruitment and retention, the essentials of designing effective training programs, and a basic knowledge of employment-related laws.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The IT fundamentals micro-credential provides you with the foundational skills necessary to enter the IT workforce in a support role. The credential prepares you with essential desktop, website, and database software support skills while you develop your skills as a data analyst with the Google Data Analytics Certificate.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The leadership micro-credential is designed to build skills and awareness of how strategic and professional communications contribute to becoming a strong leader. The micro-credential will develop an understanding in leading change, decision-making, and negotiation, allowing you to promote yourself as an effective leader in a continually changing global workplace while building your data analytics foundation with the Google certificate.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Writing for the new forms of media in the digital age requires an updated set of skills. The new media writing micro-credential covers topics such as the role of storytelling in electronic media, digital communication technologies, and the use of data, metrics, and other forms of research to support new media writing.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The nutrition micro-credential offers an introduction into the principles of healthy living, teaches you to apply them to the education of individuals and communities, and provides a chance to develop administrative, ethical, and professional skills that are relevant to leadership positions in the increasingly diverse nutritional field.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The psychology micro-credential is designed to equip you with knowledge of how the principles of psychology inform behavior, thoughts, and emotions in a variety of settings. Alongside your Google Data Analytics Certificate, the psychology micro-credential will foster an understanding of the theories and allow application of the principles of emotion, thought, behavior, memory, and decision-making to modern-day settings.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

This micro-credential is designed to provide knowledge of how principles of human services inform behavior, thoughts, and emotions in a variety of settings. What you learn in this micro-credential will help you to identify social problems, explore community resources to address social problems, and recognize the effects these problems have on individuals and society.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The sport management micro-credential is for those who want to pursue administrative and management careers in the sport and recreation industry. The credential will provide you with a broad understanding of the industry, management skills, knowledge of sport sales and sponsorships, as well as an awareness of the use of analytics in sports.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

The supply chain logistics micro-credential focuses on the logistics and distribution aspects of supply chain management, providing you with both the technical skills for solving business problems and the conceptual foundation for elevating your career. You will learn about designing systems that deliver the right amount of products to the right place at the right time.

This micro-credential also covers data analysis in the supply chain environment. Be hands on with information system tools, and work on applying what you learned to an organization.

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51 Total Credits
$10,230 Total Tuition Cost

Organizations cannot function without the required supply. Through this micro-credential, you will learn how to apply data analytics tools to optimizing value in the supply chain as well as develop skills in negotiations and writing contracts.

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Admissions Requirements

You must be a high school graduate or possess a General Education Development (GED) certificate or other equivalency diploma. You are also encouraged to complete orientation before you start classes. Refer to the University Catalog or speak to an Advisor to learn more.

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Already Have a Google Data Analytics Certificate?

If you are already a Google Data Analytics Certificate holder, you will save the time and cost associated with earning the certificate and can focus on completing the remaining courses to earn your Purdue Global + Google Career Certificate or continue on with another Purdue Global program.

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Career Support: Take the Next Step in Your Career

  • Use Purdue Global’s internal CareerNetwork to find jobs — including job leads from Google’s Employer Consortium
  • Get 24/7 support for interview and resume preparation
  • Learn tips on networking and how to find opportunities to network
  • Access employer information session to find the jobs you’re after

Student Experience

92% of first-year and senior students rate their Purdue Global experience as “excellent” or “good.”

94% of seniors would “definitely” or “probably” attend Purdue Global again.

Source: National Survey of Student Engagement, September 2021.

Career Opportunities

Gain the job-ready skills and knowledge you need to land in-demand roles.

Jobs: Management Analyst, Database Administrators and Architects, Computer Systems Analysts

Salaries for a management analyst with a professional focus and a Google Data Analytics Certificate generally range from $50,990 to $87,660, with a median salary of $66,080. Salaries for a database administrator or architect with a professional focus and a Google Data Analytics Certificate generally range from $54,070 to $98,860, with a median salary of $71,900. Salaries for a computer systems analyst with a professional focus and a Google Data Analytics Certificate generally range from $56,510 to $93,730, with a median salary of $72,030.

Source for salary range: General labor market and salary data are provided by Lightcast and may not represent the outcomes experienced by Purdue Global graduates in these programs. Purdue Global graduates in these programs may earn salaries substantially different or less than the amounts listed above. Salary and employment outcomes vary by geographic area, previous work experience, education, and opportunities for employment that are outside of Purdue Global's control. Lightcast average salary ranges can be explored further using Lightcast’s SkillsMatch tool. Purdue Global does not guarantee employment placement, salary level, or career advancement.

Below are general salary ranges for a position with a professional focus and a Google Data Analytics Certificate:

  • Management analyst: $50,990 to $87,660
  • Database administrator or architect: $54,070 to $98,860
  • Computer systems analyst: $56,510 to $93,730

Upcoming Start Dates

We offer multiple start dates to give you flexibility in your education, life, and work schedules.

NOTES AND CONDITIONS

Average Completion Time: Completion time based on a full-time schedule. Programs will take longer for part-time students to complete.

Employment and Career Advancement: Purdue Global does not guarantee employment placement, salary level, or career advancement. Actual outcomes vary by geographic area, previous work experience, and opportunities for employment. Additional certification or licensing may be required to work in certain fields.

Future Degrees: The University cannot guarantee that students will be granted admission to any future programs.