GIS Professional

Issued by University of Richmond

The GIS Professional Certificate is a six-month program consisting of two blocks of instruction: GIS Fundamentals and GIS Spatial Analysis & Statistics. Graduates receiving the GIS Professional badge have demonstrated, via a portfolio of work, knowledge and skills in the newest GIS software and use of best practices for utilizing it in their respective fields.

Type Learning
Level Intermediate
Time Months
Cost Paid

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

Complete the 4 required modules of the GIS Fundamentals core block: What is GIS?; Data, Data, Data; Introduction to Web Mapping; and the Initial Project.
Complete the 6 required modules of the GIS Spatial Analysis & Statistics code block: Spatial Analysis; Spatial Statistics; Scripting/Automation; Advanced Web Mapping/Field Apps; Cartography; and the Final Project.
Complete a portfolio consisting of at least two GIS mapping projects completed as the final module of each core segment of the course.