Online Emergency Management Graduate Certificate

Emergency management is the management and organization of resources and responsibilities used when dealing with an emergency. The focus of emergency management is to reduce the harmful effects of all hazards, including disasters, by taking the time to anticipate what will be needed during an emergency. Emergency management specifically encompasses the preparedness for, response to, mitigation of and recovery from an emergency situation.

What can I do with an emergency management graduate certificate?

Emergency management is vital in all industries to plan for and mitigate the damages of potential emergency situations. For this reason, ASU Online’s emergency management graduate certificate can be used in many ways to provide professional development and advance your career. This is especially true if you're already working in areas like public policy, planning, political science, nonprofit management or social work.

With this certificate, you’ll have the knowledge and skills needed to lead your organization’s emergency response team, look over policies to see where an emergency response plan needs to be implemented and draft your organization’s emergency response plan.

Is this an emergency management certification course?

No. The emergency management graduate certificate is not an emergency management certification course and does not provide or lead to FEMA certification. However, completion of this graduate certificate does provide you with the skills needed to make disaster management decisions and implement emergency response policies and procedures.