由教育学院教育行政管理部门管理的城市教育研究生证书是为渴望了解并关注与城市教育有关的问题的学生而设计的，这些问题包括种族学业成绩差距，城市学校资源分配，社会，文化和经济差异的背景，以及改变城市学童学习如何成为社区中积极参与的参与者的可能性。该证书可作为经城市教育学院批准而进入硕士或博士学位课程的学生的选修课。除了学生的初级学位课程的要求外，学生还必须满足以下指定证书的要求。
The Graduate Certificate in Urban Education, which is administered by the Department of Educational Administration in the College of Education, is designed for students who aspire to understand and focus on issues involving urban education including the racial academic achievement gap, allocation of resources for urban schools, contexts of social, cultural, and economic differences, and the possibilities of transforming the ways in which urban school children learn to be active and engaged participants in their communities. The certificate is available as an elective to students who are enrolled in master's or doctoral degree programs with approval from the urban education faculty. Students must meet the requirements of the certificate specified below, in addition to the requirements for the student's primary degree program.