Free Certifications for Students

Adobe Certified Professional: is an industry-recognized credential that effectively validates one’s skills in Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Get certified in the following:

• Adobe Express: Stand out with Adobe's new certification for content creators, marketers, and social media managers. Flex your knowledge of industry best practices and Adobe Express, the all-in-one editor for stunning, on-brand images, videos, PDFs, and more. 
• Adobe After Effects: Advance your career in the motion graphics industry by earning an industry-recognized certification for Adobe After Effects, the world-class tool for video compositing, motion graphics design, and animation. 
• Adobe Animate: Show off your animation skills by earning an industry-recognized certification for Adobe Animate, the powerful vector animation and multimedia authoring software. 
• Adobe Dreamweaver: Become an Adobe Certified Professional in Web Authoring and show your skills on Adobe Dreamweaver, the all-in-one visual development tool for creating, publishing, and managing websites and mobile content.  
• Adobe Illustrator: Digital media gurus bring their unique vision to life every day with shapes, colors, and effects through Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software. Earn an industry-recognized certification for Adobe Illustrator and prove your guru skills.  
• Adobe InDesign: Show your understanding and ability to create print and digital media publications using Adobe InDesign, the industry-leading layout and page design application.  
• Adobe Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop is now considered a household name. Show your skills on the world’s most widely used digital imaging software by becoming an Adobe Certified Professional in Visual Design. 
• Adobe Premiere Pro: Prove your video editing skills by earning an industry-recognized certification for Adobe Premiere Pro, the industry-leading non-linear editing software for TV, film, and social sharing. 

Basic Life Support (BLS) Issued by AdventHealth: BLS trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations, and provide early use of an AED. 

Human Resources Issued by HR Certification Institute®: An HRCI certification distinguishes you as an expert in the HR field, with proven levels of skills and knowledge, and the competence necessary to mitigate risks and drive business results.

Mental Health First Aid Issued by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing: This course teaches learners how to identify, understand, and respond to signs or symptoms of mental health or substance use challenges. Decrease stigma, address tough challenges, and make a positive difference in the lives of those around you by getting certified. 

Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Excel (Associate and Expert): Through this training, participants will have a fundamental understanding of the Excel environment. Demonstrating their ability to apply the main features of the program, such as: creating and managing worksheets, workbooks, cells, ranges, and tables, applying formulas and functions, and creating charts and objects. 
• Word (Associate and Expert): Certified individuals will establish their ability to perform a number of Word tasks, such as creating and managing documents, formatting text, paragraphs, and sections, creating tables and lists, applying references, and inserting and formatting objects.
•  PowerPoint Associate: This certification demonstrates competency to create, edit, and enhance presentations and slideshows. 
• Outlook Associate: Candidates will expand their technical skills by demonstrating how to customize the Outlook user interface format message content, create or insert graphic elements, and send and respond to emails and meeting requests. 
• Access (Associate and Expert): The certification exam uses practical, performance-based scenarios to evaluate their real-world capabilities with project and standards-based outcome testing. 
• Power BI: This exam measures participants' ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: prepare the data, model the data, visualize and analyze the data, and deploy solutions.

Music and Sound Healing Issued through the University of Central Florida: After completing this course, participants will be able to describe music therapy and sound healing and their effects on the brain, at the end of life, and with specific health conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

Phlebotomy Issued by the Northwest Phlebotomy School: This course is a unique blend of lectures and labs to get you experienced with a variety of venipuncture techniques. Their program will prepare you for placement in a new career by learning safety practices in the phlebotomy field, exposing you to a variety of patient demographics, and coaching you one-on-one in a small group setting. 

Python Issued by Pearson: This certification shows that the individual is familiar with universal computer programming concepts like data types, containers, functions, conditions, and loops, as well as Python programming language syntax, semantics, and the runtime environment. 

IT Specialist Certifications

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cloud Computing
• Computational Thinking
• Cybersecurity
• Data Analytics
• Databases
• Device Configuration and Management
• HTML and CSS
• HTML5 Application Development
• Java
• JavaScript
• Networking
• Network Security
• Python
• Software Development

Intuit Certifications

• Intuit Bookkeeping Certified Professional
• Intuit QuickBooks Online Certified User
• Intuit Design for Delight Innovator

Employing Abilities at Work Certificate Issued by SHRM Foundation: The Employing Abilities at Work certificate is a multi-faceted program with the actionable knowledge and tools HR professionals, people managers, and business leaders need to recruit, hire, and retain individuals with disabilities.

• Mental Health First Aid (SMA Healthcare)
• Basic Life Support (Advent Health)
• Music Therapy and Sound Healing (UCF)