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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Safety Management Systems Certificate


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Credits earned from these programs are transferable to degree programs at the College.

These certificate programs are an investment in your professional career as you progress into middle- and upper-management positions. They enable busy, career-minded people to further their education and knowledge anywhere, at any time, to fit into a busy, professional life. Course prerequisites are not required for the certificate program. Students who complete half of the required credits in a management certificate will receive a badge indicating this displayed on their transcript.

Four-course sequence - 12 credits


Safety Management Systems (SMS) implementation is required in practically all aviation organizations throughout the world. Vaughn College offers the only academically accredited SMS program in the tristate area serving the aviation community. This certificate program will address both the conceptual basis of SMS and ways to implement SMS principles. SMS has risen in an industry that is extremely safe but is rapidly growing.

The SMS Certificate requires completion of any four (4) of the following five (5) courses, to make up the twelve (12) credits necessary.

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