Petrocelli Center for Continuing Education
Our Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 Continuing Education courses are here! Interested learners will find a variety of Personal Enrichment and Workforce Development opportunities. You can learn more and register by selecting the appropriate box below.
The Petrocelli Center for Continuing Education, housed with Lifelong Learning at FDU, offers continuing education opportunities and certificate programs for individuals, while also strategically partnering with organizations, to provide customized programs designed to address specific needs and learning objectives. Customized programs begin with the development of a tailored plan, and are created in collaboration with your organization, to address your unique needs and challenges.
Certificate Programs
The Petrocelli Center for Continuing Education collaborates with academic units throughout the University to make credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing certificate programs available to learners throughout New Jersey.
Credit-bearing, undergraduate, and graduate-level certificates that are available include:
- Computer Programming
- Computer Security
- Non-profit Organizational Development
- Accounting and Finance
- Management and Digital Marketing
- Sports Administration
- Pharmaceutical Management
To see more of our undergraduate and graduate certificate programs, use the FDU Program Finder with the ‘certificate’ program level selected.
Customized Programs
Customized Programs can provide organizations with many benefits including:
- The ability to choose from a variety of learning modalities: asynchronous online, in-person, remote with Zoom meetings, or hybrid courses
- Access to world-renowned faculty who are experts in their field
- The opportunity for employees to expand their knowledge, develop new skills, and form new connections in their areas of interest
- Courses and training are offered on-site at partner locations, online, or at the Metropolitan and Florham Campuses in New Jersey
- The opportunity to develop your organization’s new talent pipeline by working directly with FDU’s Office of Career Development
- Short and long-term certificate programs designed to refresh employee skills or gain new knowledge in key areas
University Support Services and Information for Continuing Education Students
Academic Policies
Academic Support Services
- Web: Academic Support Center, Metro | Fairleigh Dickinson University
Phone: Call 201-692-2076
Hours vary throughout the year
In-House Information Technology Support: the
SAMI Service Desk
The SAMI Service Desk can be reached in four convenient ways:
- SAMI Portal (recommended): Go to SAMISupport.fdu.edu
- Email: Write to SAMISupport@fdu.edu
- Public Form (for users unable to validate their identity): Visit https://it.fdu.edu/sami-support-request-help/
- Phone: Call 973 443-8822
- Available daily from 8:00am – 8:00pm
Library Services
- Web: Library Homepage – Library – Homepage – FDU LibGuides at FDU Libraries
- Email: Library Inquiry Form
- Phone: Call 201-692-2279
- Hours vary throughout the year
Office of Disability Support Services
- Web: Disability Support Services | Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Email: Metrodss@fdu.edu
- Phone: Call 201-692-2078
- Available Monday-Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Registration, Billing, and Administrative Support
All continuing education students who experience registration, billing, or administrative issues, please contact the Petrocelli Center for Continuing Studies.
- Valory Mulhall, Coordinator for Continuing Education and Certificate Programs
- Email: v.mulhall@fdu.edu
- Phone: Call 201-692-6507
- Available Monday-Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm