Empower yourself with new skills employers demand

Our Professional Studies programs are designed to help you achieve your goals. Whether you want to advance your career or just try something new, take individual classes or noncredit professional development programs that will provide you with real-world experience, knowledge, and skills. 

New classes are offered throughout the year. 

Self-Paced Online Courses

Lasell University has partnered with MindEdge to offer a large variety of self-paced online courses and certificate programs.  These courses do not have an instructor but deliver high-level learning engagement through video, games, narratives, and interactive assessments. From career-building to cybersecurity to Six Sigma & Lean, you can find the courses you need to bring your career to the next level. 

Pick a course from the large selection available.

Instructor-Led Courses

Lasell's Instructor-Led online courses will have an instructor guide you through the course work and provide feedback and answers to questions you have along the way. The course work in this format is required to be completed within a specified timeline. 

Business/Management

• Agile Small Business Operations
• Data Analytics in the Workplace
• DEI in the Workplace & Social Justice
• Driving Growth through Brand Admiration
• ESL for Business Professionals
• Ecommerce Certificate
• Managing in the New Norm
• Shaping Post Pandemic Business Strategy

Creative Thinking

• iMAZZiNATiON: Creative Thinking; Cognitive Reframing
• The Corporate Flavor Polysensory Reframing
• The Earthquake Method: Design Reframing
• The Lazzaro Method: Visual Awareness
• The Monogo Method: Branding Course
• The THINK Academy

Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement

• Drone Certification Test Prep for Law Enforcement & First Responders

Education

• Teaching Bilingual Learners with Disabilities

Fashion

• Advanced Adobe Illustrator for Apparel Tech Design
• Beginner Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
• Digital Surface & Print Design
• Ecommerce Certificate
• Footwear Design & Development

Finance

• Financial Planning Certificate

Health

• Mental Health First Aid

Project Management

• Personal Agility

Technology

• Microsoft Business Developer Application

Writing

• Developing Writing Confidence

Monica Barudin '18,
MS in Integrated Marketing Communications

Content Strategist, Aetna

“The advanced strategies and techniques that I learned while earning a master’s degree truly make me an expert in my field. I use insights I learned at Lasell every day."