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IT Specializations & Certificates

  • Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA)
  • Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP)
  • CompTIA A+
  • CompTIA Server+
  • Security
  • Wireless Systems
  • Voice and Data Cabling

The IT Institute provides certifications that allow you to enter the fast-growing, lucrative field of computers.

These specialties are in high demand, and often allow you to get a job quickly. You can gain multiple certificates and increase your earning potential.

Led by a Steering Committee of industry representatives, the mission of the IT Institute is to create courses and curricula that will allow low wage earners to enter the IT field and earn a decent living wage, allow IT professionals to upgrade skills that will make them vital and sought after in a highly competitive talent market and provide skills for IT subject matter experts, managers and executives that will allow them to lead their organizations in the successful implementation of IT projects.

For other computer courses: Business and Industry Training Services offers courses geared at business professionals, such as Office or Excel. Continuing Professional Education provides classes for hobbyists or people who just want to learn more about computers.