Academics
Technical Certificates
Nashville State offers one-year technical certificates that are designed to equip students to enter the job market quickly. These career and technical programs emphasize basic technical knowledge that is reinforced through hands-on experience. Students are prepared for entry-level positions through classroom and laboratory learning.
Internships and Clinical Practicums
Many of the technical certificate programs require students to complete internships or clinical practicums. Students apply principles they learn in class to on-the-job situations. Students work in actual business, industry, and health arenas while receiving credit.
Transfer Opportunities
The certificate programs are designed so that students can apply all of the required courses toward Nashville State A.A.S. degrees. Consult your advisor about articulation options.
Technical Certificates
Please visit the Catalog or the Academic Program Websites for more information on NSCC technical certificate programs. Links to each technical certificate's program website and/or advising sheet(s) are given below.
- 3-D Design and Graphics
- Accounting Technology
- Administrative Assistant
- Central Processing Technology (Separate Admission Required)
- Computer-Aided Drafting
- Culinary Arts
- Drafting and Construction (Cookeville Only)
- Advising Sheet (PDF)
- Early Childhood Education
- Horticulture
- Industrial Electrical Maintenance
- Information Security
- IT Medical Management
- Logistics
- Medical Coding
- Music Technology
- Photography
- Supply Chain
- Surgical Technology (Separate Admission Required)
- Transportation
- Web Page Authoring
Expressway Cohort Programs
The Tennessee Board of Regents and Tennessee’s Community Colleges have responded to the call to help more Tennesseans complete college in myriad ways, including its Finish Faster programs. At Nashville State Community College, the Expressway cohort program allows students to move through program requirements in a pre-determined sequence so they can finish faster.
For more information about the TBR Finish Faster programs, check out the video and Web site.
NSCC Expressway Cohort Program
NSCC's Expressway cohort program allows students to begin and complete their degrees or technical certificates with a group of individuals committed to their education and life goals. Courses are offered in a pre-determined sequence that allows students to finish their program of study in the shortest amount of time possible and to plan around their family and work schedules.
For more information, check out the NSCC Expressway Web site.