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For Working Professionals

Add AI to Your Career Before It Adds You.

A university certificate in Applied AI Mastery, online, in 19 weeks. Learn to build the automations and AI agents that are changing how your industry works, and apply them to your job from week one.

  • ✓ Apply what you build to your current role immediately
  • ✓ University certificate from Millersville
  • ✓ Online with live sessions and one-on-one mentorship
  • ✓ Monthly start dates

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Learn more about the program, the costs, and whether it's the right fit for you.

Built for Working Professionals

Useful From Week One

You build an AI workspace and automations for your own work context, not toy exercises.

A Credential That Reads

A university certificate from Millersville, issued through the Lombardo College of Business.

Structured, Not Scheduled

Pre-recorded lessons on your time plus live sessions and mentorship. Mastery-based, so you advance when ready.

What You'll Be Able to Do

Get hands-on training in applied artificial intelligence: AI foundations, workflow automation, AI agents, software development, security, and business consulting. Build AI systems, deploy them, and prove the value for the businesses you work with.

Build & Deploy With AI

Build apps and software using AI through the entire development process, from first idea to launch.

Automate & Create AI Agents

Design automations and AI agent workflows that replace manual, repetitive business processes.

Analyze Business Systems

Spot inefficiencies and bottlenecks, and find where AI delivers measurable impact.

Set Up an AI Workspace

Create a customized AI environment with integrated tools, agents, and automated workflows.

Prove the ROI

Provide valuable solutions to a business: money saved, time back, and revenue gained.

Present a Case Study

Graduate with a capstone documenting a business problem, the solution you built, and measured outcomes.

Online, With Clear Structure

Format

Online with live sessions

Weekly live instruction with expert tech instructors and your cohort. Not a passive video course.

Pace

Mastery-based

You advance when you show you've got it, not on a rigid clock.

Time

Plan for it

About 9 hours per course each week, alongside work.

Support

Instructor follow-up

Fall behind and your instructor reaches out. This is built to get you finished, not enrolled.

See Exactly What You'll Build

Six levels that take you from the fundamentals to a new career. Want the full breakdown of every course? Download the curriculum guide.

Download the Curriculum Guide
  • 01 AI Fundamentals
  • 02 AI Tools & Workflow Customization
  • 03 How the Internet & Software Systems Work
  • 04 AI-Assisted Software Development
  • 05 Automations & AI Agents
  • 06 Security & Deployment
  • 07 Business Analysis, ROI & Capstone

What AI Skills Are Worth

$90K
Entry Level
$140K
Median
$188K+
ML Engineer Avg

Whether you move into an AI role or become the person who brings AI into your current one, the skills carry a premium. National figures, pay varies by market and experience.

Sources: BLS OEWS (May 2025), Coursera AI Engineer Salary Guide, Indeed (June 2026). BLS does not yet maintain dedicated codes for AI titles.

Student working through the Applied AI program online

Working Professional FAQs

It's a serious commitment: plan for about 9 to 12 hours per course each week. The format helps, lessons are on your own time with live sessions scheduled around the cohort, and mastery-based pacing means life happening doesn't knock you out of the program.

No. The program starts at the fundamentals. What matters is that you show up and do the work.

Admissions walks you through tuition and payment options in your first conversation. If your employer has a professional development budget, they can provide what you need to make the request.

From the early levels: an AI-powered workspace tailored to your role, automations that remove repetitive work, and AI agent workflows. The later levels add software development and the business case skills to pitch what you build.

Both. You learn through pre-recorded lessons on your schedule, then join live sessions with your instructor for Q&A, labs, and problem solving. Plus one-on-one mentorship.

Cohorts start monthly. No waiting for a fall semester. Talk to admissions and you can be in the next start date.

Issued through the Lombardo College of Business at Millersville University. Founded 1855. PASSHE member institution.

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