Behavior Intervention Specialist Certificate
provides a course of study and skills necessary to intervene in the area of behavior problems for children and youths.

Pervasive Development Certificate
provides current teachers and speech-language pathologists with the knowledge and skills necessary to collaborate with parents and other professionals to provide services for children, youth and adults with Pervasive Development Delay and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Gerontology Certificate
emphasizes research and theory in preparing individuals for professional positions in the development, design and evaluation of health, vocational and rehabilitation education programs.

Coaching Certificate
focuses upon the 8 NASPE domains at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

College Teaching Certificate
enhances the student's understanding of the role of the professor, refine teaching competencies, introduce the student to teaching technologies, and prepare the student to transition to the professorate.

International Higher Education
provides an understanding internationalization and gives students well articulated skills, knowledge and dispositions to improve the capacity of internationalization of a higher education institutional

Guest admission is available to applicants who are new to graduate study at Kent State University. It provides an opportunity to take a limited number of graduate courses for credit. To be admitted in this category, the applicant must have an earned baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution. Guest students typically take courses for job enhancement, personal enrichment, or enjoyment.

Guest students may remain in this status until a maximum of 6 semester hours of Kent State University credit have been attempted. Students cannot earn a degree in this admission status. If you wish to pursue a degree program or continue after 6 semester hours have been attempted, you must apply for regular admission. Credit hours taken as guest may apply to a degree program with the approval of the dean. Guest students must meet all prerequisites for courses.

Anyone who has been denied admission to graduate study or is under dismissal at Kent State University is not eligible for guest student status. Guest students are not eligible for financial aid.

Nondegree admission is valid for six years. The 6 hour guest student limit does not apply. However, in order to be admitted as a nondegree student you must submit two official transcripts from the institution where your most recent degree was taken.

The College of Education, Health, and Human Services will secure transcripts of course work taken at Kent State University.

A $30.00 non-refundable application fee is required. It is important for nondegree students to understand that in the event they decide to apply to a degree program, a limit of 12 hours taken as a nondegree admit can be used in the degree program, if approved.

Persons who are in good standing in a graduate degree program at another university may be admitted as transient students at Kent State University to take coursework which may apply to their degree program.

Transient students are admitted for one semester only. At the end of the semester for which a transient student is admitted, the admission will be inactivated. The student may register in subsequent semesters upon submission of a new Transient Student Application Form.