What is a Badge?

The College of Computing offers graduate-level digital badges. A digital badge, or simply “badge”, recognizes a student’s completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. A badge allows students to promote academic achievements online more effectively and in different venues than would be possible with a transcript. For example, you could link your digital badge to your LinkedIn profile. The university uses acclaim.com to issue badges. Click here to see an example.

Available Badges

• Biomedical Informatics: prepares students to engage with information systems in a clinical or healthcare setting
• Cybersecurity: prepares students to identify, assess and address digital security threats
• Data Analytics: prepares students to understand and work with big and complex data sets across multiple disciplines
• Database Management: prepares students to master concepts of relational and non-relational databases
• Distributed Computing: prepares students to solve the difficult issues related to having computers cooperate in solving a problem
• Information Systems Management: prepares students to engage with information systems and software project management in a business setting
• Software Design and Development: prepares students to become a modern software developer
• Software Engineering: prepares students for deep knowledge of software engineering practice
• Web and Mobile: prepares students to design and create web and mobile applications using modern development frameworks