Graduate Certificate in Corporate and Worksite Wellness

Worksite Wellness focuses on establishing and maintaining a healthy environment in the workplace, schools, and community, as well as working with health systems to reduce complications from many chronic diseases. In Worksite Wellness, you will promote and encourage employees to lead a healthy lifestyle through programming including but not limited to smoking cessation, biometric screenings, stress management, weight loss, back healthsafety, and fitness classes. Many programs include incentives and rewards as employees work towards healthier choices, and successful worksite wellness programs show more productive employees, higher employee satisfaction, and lower absenteeism due to illness. In the Corporate and Worksite Wellness certificate program, you will take core courses in physiology, biomechanics, diagnostic testing and exercise prescription worksite wellness programs.

​Official transcripts are required from all post-secondary educational institutions from which the applicant earned a degree (beginning with first baccalaureate) and all enrollment in graduate level course work beyond the bachelor’s degree.International university transcripts (educational credentials) must be evaluated by a professional credential evaluation service. Oakland University will only accept transcript evaluations completed by a NACES (National Association of Credential Evaluation service) member organization.Applicants should have a background in basic and applied health sciences and a minimum overall undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 (B).