School for Graduate Studies

Put your career goals within reach with a graduate degree or advanced certificate from SUNY Empire State College.

SUNY Empire offers 22 graduate degrees and 27 advanced certificates in business, policy, education, and liberal studies through the School for Graduate Studies and the School of Nursing and Allied Health.

Graduate Degrees

Whether you’ve been out of college for a month, a year, or longer, there’s no better time to earn your master’s degree or professional degree than now.

Across all disciplines, Americans with a master’s degree earn 18.4% more than those with a bachelor’s degree only, and those with professional degrees earn 45.1% more.^*
33% of U.S. employers have raised their education requirements over the past five years, hiring workers with master’s degrees for positions that had been primarily held by those with four-year degrees.^**

Explore Our Degree Offerings

SUNY Empire’s real-world-ready graduate programs can be completed fully online (although some are enhanced with onsite residencies), which means you can work and live your life while you earn your graduate degree.

Our Graduate Students Tell Us They’re Earning Their Master’s Degree to:

Differentiate themselves in a competitive job market
Advance their career / take on leadership roles at work
Gain specialized knowledge in their career field
Increase their earning potential
Explore a passion or an interest / satisfy a desire for lifelong learning

* National Bureau of Labor Statistics
** Career Builder Survey

Graduate Certificates

Add an advanced certificate to your graduate degree to enhance your program and focus your studies on a specific area of interest. These fully online, post-bachelor’s certificates give you an additional credential you can build into your degree program, often with few or no additional classes.