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Education for Working Professionals (EWP) at Rensselaer encompasses a range of programs designed specifically for current and future workforce leaders.

With dramatic acceleration in the rate of change, working professionals expect and demand an academic environment that fits the evolving needs of their fast-paced world. Rensselaer's program is dedicated to providing a highly interactive learning environment for students who are seeking high-level knowledge while they hone their analytical capabilities and leadership skills and enhance their innovative thinking.

EWP curricula offer academic programs with a range of high-end, customized degree, certificate, and professional development programs. Rensselaer EWP graduates—executives, senior professionals, managers, and individuals with high potential—become architects of their own futures.

The EWP organization supports the Rensselaer vision by forging strategic partnerships with businesses, governments, universities, and innovative professionals who impact society and technology around the nation and the world.

Rensselaer’s educational enterprise for working professionals is dedicated to providing a highly interactive learning environment for students who are seeking high-level knowledge while they hone their analytical capabilities and leadership skills and enhance their innovative thinking.

The intent is to have Rensselaer graduates—executives, senior professionals, managers, and individuals with high potential—become architects of their futures. With dramatic increases in the rate of change, working professionals expect and demand an academic environment that fits the evolving needs of their fast-paced world.

Rensselaer Hartford Campus
The Rensselaer Hartford Campus and the Rensselaer Groton Site provide working professionals throughout Connecticut and the surrounding state with the opportunity to earn master's degrees, graduate certificates, and professional development certifications. Master's degree programs are available in Computer Science, Management, Engineering, and Information Technology. Computer Science and Engineering graduate certificate programs are also available, as well as Accelerated Weekend Master's programs.

Distance Learning
For the past 15 years, Rensselaer has delivered high-quality, interactive learning experiences in distributed environments. Rensselaer is a leading provider of graduate-level, distributed education programs for working professionals at corporations and government agencies all over the world.

Approximately 800 students participate annually in Rensselaer distance education courses, certificates, and degree programs from their workplace, at home, or on the road using a range of distributed delivery technologies, including satellite broadcast, videoconferencing, mailed videotape, CD-ROM, and online technologies.

Distance courses originate from Rensselaer’s Troy or Hartford campuses and are supported by Web sites and other means that provide communication and collaboration tools to facilitate interaction between students, their project teammates and faculty.

Degree and certificate programs in Engineering, Science, Information Technology, Management, and Technical Communication are available via distance.

Regional Site in Southeastern Connecticut
Rensselaer operates a regional distance education site in Southeastern Connecticut, supplemented by faculty from Rensselaer’s Hartford campus who travel to the site to teach courses. Many of the degree and certificate programs available on the Hartford campus also are available at the Southeastern Connecticut site.

Navy Nuclear Program
Rensselaer operates a regional site in Malta, N.Y., for graduates of the Navy Nuclear Power Training School who are stationed at the Kesselring site in West Milton, N.Y. Navy personnel enter the program with one year’s worth of undergraduate coursework and Rensselaer provides the remaining course work for students to complete a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Engineering Physics, or Engineering Science within two to three years. Rensselaer courses are primarily taught onsite in Malta by faculty from the Troy campus. Onsite courses are supplemented by one or two online courses each semester.

Professional Development Programs
A full range of professional development programs are available to working professionals. Professional development programs are designed to provide working professionals with the critical skills they need to be effective in today’s dynamic workplace. Programs generally range from one day to five days in length.

Training programs and workshops are available in the areas of Information Technology, Leadership and Executive Development, Quality, and Technical and Professional Development. Specialized programs reflective of Rensselaer’s research strengths also are available and will be provided in response to market demands.

Services designed to help companies and individuals understand and define their developmental needs are also available. These services include needs assessment, custom program development, and executive coaching, and may be offered in multiple delivery options and locations.