Welcome to CAPS
Welcome to WashU Continuing & Professional Studies (CAPS). Discover your pathway to a flexible, targeted and attainable education from a world-class institution, designed to help you succeed while you balance your personal and professional responsibilities.
$1.26M
In Grants & Scholarships Awarded Since 2021
6,486
Total Number of CAPS Graduates
$13.2 M
Average Increase in Earnings 100 CAPS graduates would generate for the
St. Louis region by 2035
Flexible
Your education through CAPS is designed for the modern learner, offering the flexibility needed to balance work, family, and school commitments, ensuring you can achieve your educational goals on your terms.
Targeted
Your success is the top priority, which is why CAPS programs are tailored to meet the needs of the St. Louis workforce, offering sought-after skills that enable modern learners to upskill and reskill for career advancement.
Attainable
Your bottom line is important. CAPS makes attaining a high-quality education possible by working to identify prior credit that can be applied to your program and helping you find financial aid and scholarship opportunities.
With programs to fit your career goals
BSIS: Clinical Research Management
Study includes areas as learning and memory, motivation, sensory processes and perception, biological bases of behavior, social interactions, aging and development, personality, and clinical and affective psychology.
BSIS: Foundations of Counseling Psychology and Behavioral Health
Study learning and memory, motivation, sensory processes and perception, biological bases of behavior, social interactions, aging and development, personality, and clinical and affective psychology.
Master of Applied Computer Science
The Master of Applied Computer Science (MACS) degree is designed to provide a strong, interdisciplinary foundation in computer science for working professionals who come from non-mathematical or non-engineering disciplines and who want to enter the field of computing.
Master of Data Analytics & Applications
If a professional is looking to advance their career in this field, the Master of Data Analytics & Applications will provide the knowledge base and expertise they need to construct data systems that improve efficiencies and profit margins for organizations.
Certificate in Strategic Communication
The Certificate in Strategic Communication provides essential skills for designing, implementing and managing business communications programs for a range of corporate, agency and nonprofit organizations.
Certificate in Sustainability
The Certificate in Sustainability provides an interdisciplinary foundation for understanding and addressing today’s most pressing and complex social, environmental, and economic challenges.
Bioscience Technology Professional Certificate
The Bioscience Technology Certificate provides entry-level skills to those seeking employment in medical and research laboratories.
Healthcare Transitions Professional Certificate
The Healthcare Transitions Certificate focuses on science and math skills that are necessary to transition to a healthcare-focused career.
English Language Programs
CAPS English Language Programs (ELP) are designed to strengthen and advance the English language capacities of those who speak English as an additional language, facilitating students’ academic and professional success at the university and beyond.
Prison Education Project
CAPS Prison Education Project (PEP) is a transformative program that offers a college education to incarcerated students at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center and the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center.
Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning
The Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning (MATL), a collaboration between CAPS and Teach St. Louis, trains current and aspiring St. Louis area school teachers to become leaders in their schools.
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Schedule time with a Student Success Navigator today to find out how you can get the most out of your CAPS programs and courses.
