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On-point skills in valuable micro-courses, micro-certificates and full professional development programs. 

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Accelerate your career for the AI economy

Future-proof your career for the AI economy. The Professional Development Studio at Newstate University is the institution's non-credit division focused on equipping adult learners with practical, career-ready skills. As part of the nation’s first AI-Founded, AI-Focused university, our programs are designed to deliver effective, efficient learning for an AI world.

If you are seeking job-ready expertise and high-value skills in high-demand fields, our radically affordable, flexible learning model is the smarter way to college. Classes start literally every day—you don't have to wait.

About the Professional Development Studio

🎓 Professional development programs, micro-certificates, and micro-courses brought to you by the nation’s first AI-Founded, AI-Focused University — Newstate University.
 
💼 Good jobs build strong communities — and the path to those jobs starts with the right skills and certificates that truly matter in today’s workforce.

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Why choose Newstate U's Professional Development Studio?

AI-Focused Education

Every course builds practical AI and business skills for today’s workforce. We use AI, and we teach applied AI skills for a rapidly moving world.

Build Your Network

Join our LinkedIn Group, where you can establish your network as you develop your career. Expand your professional brand and reach.

Flexible & Self-Paced Learning

Our learning experiences are entirely self-paced and programs are available fully online and mobile-enabled. You can start any day.

Stackable, Debt-Free Credentials

All certificates stack right into program and even degree pathways so that all learning counts.

Supportive Learning Environment

Your progress is supported by an AI Coach. Learning materials are included at no extra cost.

Program structure: stackable credentials designed for impact

 The Professional Development Studio offers a structured pathway to skills mastery through stackable components.

Micro-certificates and full professional development programs can be converted to college credit towards your degree if you live in one of our approved states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii,  Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah.

Micro-Course

  • Substantive skill-building learning experiences
  • Stacks into micro-certificate
  • 30 - 45 hours of learning
  • 3 months to complete
  • $200 per micro-course

Micro-Certificate

  • Comprise of three micro-courses
  • 90 - 135 hours of deeper skill-building
  • Introductory to advanced options
  • 6 months to complete
  • $450 per micro-certificate

PD Program

  • Comprised of three micro-certificates
  • 300 - 400 hours of deep skill-building content
  • Introductory to advanced options
  • 12 months to complete
  • $1200 for the full program

AI is changing the game

🤖 AI is changing the game. With the Professional Development Studio at Newstate University, you'll learn it and use it.
 
🛠️ We teach courses across a range of tools and platforms, with content from top providers — so you're always learning from the best.
 
 
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Let's get it done

We have skill-building learning that's both structured and flexible, in high-demand fields.

Practical AI Skills

Create your AI toolkit to make you powerful and productive. Get career-ready AI skills you can use the next day in your job. Get the edge against your competition for that next job.

Business

From strategy and operations, get skilled in AI applied to leading businesses. Learn leadership, management, finance, HR and strategy - all with AI skills built in.

CX & Digital Marketing

Get expertise in the entire customer journey with an AI-first focus. Need to learn customer journey-mapping, user testing processes, and marketing optimization? Heard of GEO instead of SEO? Start here.

Project Management

A critical skill - learn it across multiple methodologies and as applied to multiple fields. Project managers are needed, and we're the place to get the credential. We teach all methods, from waterfall to agile and back again.

Product Management

Demand for product managers is growing - be a part of that growth. Learn how to create exceptional products across a range of industries. Develop skills for how to lead and sustain products across domains.

Arts & Culture

It's valuable, and it makes a difference on the job. Learn history and literature through arts and culture because context matters. We weave AI skills into your liberal arts journey.

Want to stack your professional development towards your degree?

Unlike most colleges, all of your learning counts at Newstate U. Newstate U's innovative model allows you to apply your professional development towards a future degree.

Simply add the project to your micro-certificate or full professional development program, and you're on your way towards your degree.

This is available in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah.

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Professional development programs

🚀 Level up your skills—on your schedule. Our non-credit programs are focused, smaller sized, self-paced, and built for continuous growth.

🎓 The Professional Development Studio at Newstate University delivers non-credit programs designed for real-world impact.

Skills at the ready

🎓 The Professional Development Studio at Newstate University delivers non-credit programs designed for real-world impact.

📚 Our short-form courses are open to everyone, and stack into Micro-Certificates and full Professional Development programs—so you can build your future, one skill at a time.

Get the right skills

💡 Technology & Innovation

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Design Thinking
  • Product Management

📈 Business & Strategy

  • Business
  • Finance
  • Process Improvement
  • Project Management

🌍 People & Impact

  • Career Advancement
  • Customer Experience
  • Political Science
  • Arts

Effective? Yes!

🖥️ Fancy computer lab? Nope. But who needs one?

📱 You’ll be leveling up your skills on the go—

  • In your car 🚗 with one of our audio lessons
  • At the office 🏢 during a lunch break
  • On your phone 📲 between meetings

You need AI-powered learning that’s flexible, valuable, and deep. And that’s exactly what we deliver. 

Welcome to the Professional Development Studio at Newstate University.

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