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From getting into graduate schools to landing their dream jobs, our students and alumni study and work hard to accomplish their academic and career goals. Be inspired by their successes to achieve your own career change or advancement.
Formalizing Teaching Experience Through TEFL Certification
While some students take classes and then volunteer to get real-world experience, Phyliss Martinez, a UC Berkeley School of Law program...
Exploring California Yosemite—Somewhere You Should Go!
Yosemite National Park is one of the most famous national parks in the United States. I heard about it well before coming to UC...
Earning Certificate Brings Job Promotion
Sometimes all it takes is one opportunity at work to change your career direction. For Jaimee Drew, it was being asked to join a team...
Career-Changing From Software Engineering to Medicine
Despite traveling and working around the globe and working at lucrative tech startups, Bradley Heinz kept feeling the draw to...
Putting Learning to Work
We recently had the opportunity to visit Extension student and product specialist Lisa Jacquiot. During our conversation, she talked...
Making Writing a Priority
Now in the thick of University of San Francisco's M.F.A. in Writing, post-bacc writing grad Rose Heredia reflects on the good...
Meet Psychology Student Colin Fyfe
Poring through numbers to prove causes and correlations as a psychological-health researcher at UCSF and UC Berkeley, Colin Fyfe began...
TESL Certificate a Crucial Step Toward a Master's
Amy Loewen transferred all of her credits earned in the Certificate Program in Teaching English as a Second Language to the University...
Ready to Take Stock in Families’ Lives
Our Certificate Program in Personal Financial Planning provides an academic path to joining the financial planning profession. Through...