SUNY Broome is now offering free access to Google Certificates in Advanced Data Analytics, AI Essentials (a course, not a certificate), Business Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing/E-Commerce, IT Automation with Python, IT Support and User Experience Design. Build new skills or enhance existing ones to give yourself a leg up in the workplace or to explore whether a subject or career path is right for you!
Why Enroll?
It’s free to you! You can dip your toe into a new topic and see if you like it, build entry-level skills, or enhance existing career expertise.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Google Certificates is SUNY Broome offering?
SUNY Broome is offering the following Google Certificates:
Why enroll in a free Google Certificates course?
There are a variety of reasons a Google Certificates course may benefit you. You can:
- develop a new skill set
- get an introduction to a new skill
- decide if this is a topic you want to explore further (try out a major or subject for free)
- leverage a certification to enter a workplace a step above entry level
- enhance another academic major or professional focus and open a door to a different career aspect (For example: Art majors who earn a User Experience Design certificate may expand their employment options into the IT realm.)
- earn 3-6 college credits for free – if you enroll at SUNY Broome after earning a Google Certificate, professors can help you determine the certificate’s equivalence in credits or courses for a specific degree program
How old do I have to be to enroll?
Does a Google Certificate do anything for me if I already have an associate’s or bachelor’s degree?
Can I take more than one certificate?
Can I enroll in more than Google Certificate at a time?
How long are the courses available for? Is there a set amount of time in which I need to finish?
If I don’t log in for a certain amount of time, is my progress in the course lost?
How long will it take me to finish a Google Certificate?
AI Essentials (a course, not a certificate) – about 15 hours
Business Intelligence – about 75 hours
Cybersecurity – about 165 hours
Data Analytics – about 190 hours
Digital Marketing – about 170 hours
IT Automation with Python – about 180 hours
IT Support — about 140 hours
User Experience — about 240 hours. Google estimates the time commitment for one certificate is about 10 hours a week for six months. Depending on the specific certificate and the time you’re able to devote, you may complete it more quickly or more slowly.
What materials do I need to take a Google Certificates course?
Are the courses available asynchronously on demand?
Is there an actual instructor for each course?
How do I get tech support for the online courses?
I want to take one of the courses but don’t have a computer and/or internet access at home. What can I do?
What do I get when I complete a Google Certificate course?
What resources are available after I complete a Google Certificate?
When you complete a Google Career Certificate, you’ll get exclusive access to CareerCircle, which offers free one-on-one coaching, interview and career support, and a job board to connect directly with employers, including over 150 companies in the Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium.
In addition to expert-led training and hands-on projects designed to prepare you for a job, you’ll get access to an interview practice tool, mock interviews and resume-building workshops, career coaching sessions and more.
You’ll also be able to connect with more than 150 U.S. employers searching for candidates who hold a Google Certificate.
Information about each certificate
Advanced Data Analytics
Advanced data professionals are responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting extremely large amounts of data. These jobs require manipulating large data sets and using advanced analytics including machine learning, predictive modeling, and experimental design.
This certificate builds on your data analytics skills and experience to take your career to the next level. It’s designed for graduates of the Google Data Analytics Certificate or people with equivalent data analytics experience. Expand your knowledge with practical, hands-on projects, featuring Jupyter Notebook, Python, and Tableau.
After seven courses, you’ll be prepared for jobs like senior data analyst, junior data scientist, data science analyst, and more. At under 10 hours a week, the certificate program can be completed in less than six months. Upon completion, you can apply for jobs with Google and over 150 U.S. employers, including Deloitte, Target, and Verizon.
This certificate includes seven courses:
- Foundations of Data Science
- Get Started with Python
- Go Beyond the Numbers: Translate Data into Insights
- The Power of Statistics
- Regression Analysis: Simplify Complex Data Relationships
- The Nuts and Bolts of Machine Learning
- Google Advanced Data Analytics Capstone
View more information about this certificate and associated career information.
AI Essentials Course
Google AI Essentials is a self-paced course designed to help people across roles and industries get essential AI skills to boost their productivity, zero experience required. The course is taught by AI experts at Google who are working to make the technology helpful for everyone.
In under 10 hours, they’ll do more than teach you about AI — they’ll show you how to actually use it in the real world. Stuck at the beginning of a project? You’ll learn how to use AI tools to generate ideas and content. Planning an event? You’ll use AI tools to help research, organize, and make more informed decisions. Drowning in a flooded inbox? You’ll use AI tools to help speed up those daily work tasks, like drafting email responses. You’ll also learn how to write effective prompts and use AI responsibly by identifying AI’s potential biases and avoiding harm. After you complete the course, you’ll earn a certificate from Google to share with your network and potential employers. By using AI as a helpful collaboration tool, you can set yourself up for success in today’s dynamic workplace — and you don’t even need programming skills to use it.
This course includes five modules:
- Introduction to AI
- Maximize Productivity with AI Tools
- Discover the Art of Prompt Engineering
- Use AI Responsibly
- Stay Ahead of the Curve
View more information about this course and associated career information.
Business Intelligence
Business intelligence professionals collect, organize, interpret, and report on data to help organizations make informed business decisions. Some responsibilities include measuring performance, tracking revenue or spending, and monitoring progress.
This certificate builds on your data analytics skills and experience to take your career to the next level. It’s designed for graduates of the Google Data Analytics Certificate or people with equivalent data analytics experience. Expand your knowledge with practical, hands-on projects, featuring BigQuery, SQL, and Tableau.
After three courses, you’ll be prepared for jobs like business intelligence analyst, business intelligence engineer, business intelligence developer, and more. At under 10 hours a week, the certificate program can be completed in less than two months. Upon completion, you can apply for jobs with Google and over 150 U.S. employers, including Deloitte, Target, and Verizon.
This certificate includes three courses:
- Foundations of Business Intelligence
- The Path to Insights: Data Models and Pipelines
- Decisions, Decisions: Dashboards and Reports
View more information about this certificate and associated career information.
Cybersecurity
Prepare for a new career in the high-growth field of cybersecurity, no degree or experience required. Get professional training designed and delivered by subject matter experts at Google and have the opportunity to connect with top employers.
Organizations must continuously protect themselves and the people they serve from cyber-related threats, like fraud and phishing. They rely on cybersecurity to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their internal systems and information. Cybersecurity analysts use a collection of methods and technologies to safeguard against threats and unauthorized access — and to create and implement solutions should a threat get through.
During the 8 courses in this certificate program, you’ll learn from cybersecurity experts at Google and gain in-demand skills that prepare you for entry-level roles like cybersecurity analyst, security operations center (SOC) analyst, and more. At under 10 hours per week, you can complete the certificate in less than 6 months.
Upon completion of the certificate, you can directly apply for jobs with Google and over 150 U.S. employers, including American Express, Deloitte, Colgate-Palmolive, Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud), T-Mobile, and Walmart.
The Google Cybersecurity Certificate helps prepare you for the CompTIA Security+ exam, the industry leading certification for cybersecurity roles. You’ll earn a dual credential when you complete both.
This certificate includes eight courses:
- Foundations of Cybersecurity
- Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks
- Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security
- Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL
- Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
- Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response
- Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python
- Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs
View more information about this certificate and associated career information
Data Analytics
Whether you’re just getting started or want to take the next step in the high-growth field of data analytics, this certificate can help you gain in-demand skills. You’ll be introduced to the world of data analytics through hands-on curriculum including using spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, R programming, and more. Certificate earners will be equipped with the skills to apply for entry-level data analyst roles.
This certificate includes eight courses:
- Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere
- Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions
- Prepare Data for Exploration
- Process Data from Dirty to Clean
- Analyze Data to Answer Questions
- Share Data Through the Art of Visualization
- Data Analysis with R Programming
- Google Data Analytics Capstone: Complete a Case Study
View more information about this certificate and associated career information.
Digital Marketing/E-Commerce
This certificate prepares you for a digital marketing or e-commerce role. You’ll learn popular tools and platforms, such as Canva, Constant Contact, Hootsuite, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Shopify, Twitter, Google Ads, and Google Analytics. You’ll develop digital marketing and e-commerce strategies, learn how to attract and engage customers through digital marketing channels, measure marketing analytics and share insights, and build e-commerce stores, analyze e-commerce performance, and grow customer loyalty. This certificate is endorsed by the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) and the American Advertising Federation (AAF).
This certificate includes seven courses:
- Foundations of Digital Marketing and E-commerce
- Attract and Engage Customers with Digital Marketing
- From Likes to Leads: Interact with Customers Online
- Think Outside the Inbox: Email Marketing
- Assess for Success: Marketing Analytics and Measurement
- Make the Sale: Build, Launch, and Manage E-commerce Stores
- Satisfaction Guaranteed: Develop Customer Loyalty Online
View more information about this certificate and associated career information.
IT Automation with Python
This beginner-level, six-course Google certificate is designed to provide IT professionals with in-demand skills — including Python, Git, and IT automation — that can help you advance your career.
Knowing how to write code to solve problems and automate solutions is a crucial skill for anybody in IT. Python, in particular, is now the most in-demand programming language by employers.
This program builds on your IT foundations to help you take your career to the next level. It’s designed to teach you how to program with Python and how to use Python to automate common system administration tasks. You’ll also learn to use Git and GitHub, troubleshoot and debug complex problems, and apply automation at scale by using configuration management and the Cloud.
This certificate can be completed in about 6 months and is designed to prepare you for a variety of roles in IT, like more advanced IT Support Specialist or Junior Systems Administrator positions. Upon completion, you can share your information with potential employers, like Deloitte, Target, Verizon, and of course, Google.
We recommend that you have Python installed on your machine. For some courses, you’ll need a computer where you can install Git or ask your administrator to install it for you.
This certificate includes six courses:
- Crash Course on Python
- Using Python to Interact with the Operating System
- Introduction to Git and GitHub
- Troubleshooting and Debugging Techniques
- Configuration Management and the Cloud
- Automating Real-World Tasks with Python
View more information about this certificate and associated career information
IT Support
This certificate prepares you for a high-demand, entry-level IT support position, with no previous information technology training or experience required. You’ll learn to perform day-to-day IT support tasks such as computer assembly, wireless networking, installing programs, and customer service, including end-to-end customer support, troubleshooting and debugging. Learn to use systems like Linux, Domain Name Systems, Command-Line Interface, and Binary Code.
This certificate includes five courses:
- Technical Support Fundamentals
- The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking
- Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User
- System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services
- IT Security: Defense Against the Digital Dark Arts
View more information about this certificate and associated career information.
User Experience Design
This certificate prepares you for a career in the high-growth field of user experience design, which focuses on user interaction with products such websites, apps, and physical objects, and making those interactions useful, enjoyable, and accessible. You’ll create designs on paper and with digital design tools like Figma and Adobe XD. Certificate earners will complete the course with a professional user experience portfolio of three end-to-end projects. This program includes over 200 hours of instruction and hundreds of practice-based activities and assessments that simulate real-world UX design scenarios critical for success in the workplace.
This certificate includes seven courses:
- Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
- Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
- Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
- Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
- Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
- Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD
- Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs
View more information about this certificate and associated career information.
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