For Alumni
Your Penn State Advantage Doesn’t End at Graduation
As a Penn State alum, enjoy exclusive discounts—10% off online & 20% off on-campus programs—to build skills in leadership, analytics, and strategy.
The Penn State You Know, Built for Where Your Career Is Going.
As a Penn State alumnus, your advantages don’t end at graduation. Through exclusive alumni professional development benefits, you can continue building the skills needed to lead, grow, and advance.
Our non-credit programs in leadership & strategy, analytics, supply chain management, and emerging business topics are designed to fit alongside your career. You’ll learn from Penn State faculty and experienced industry practitioners who bring real-world perspective to the challenges you face at work, giving you practical skills you can put to use right away.
No application. No degree enrollment. Just practical, high-impact professional development designed for lifelong learners and Penn State alumni.
Penn State Alumni Benefits
Penn State alumni receive 10% off online professional development and 20% off on-campus programs. Whether expanding leadership skills, strengthening supply chain expertise, or prepping for new opportunities, these benefits make it easy to continue investing in your professional growth.
Find the Right Program for Your Goals
Supply Chain Leadership, Management, and Operations
Take a single program to address a specific skill gap, or complete three qualifying programs within a focus area to earn a Penn State Smeal Professional Certificate and demonstrate your commitment to lifelong learning and career advancement.
Leadership and Strategy
Advance your ability to lead people, shape strategy, and drive results. From leadership development and management effectiveness to planning, strategy, and decision-making, these programs help you to influence outcomes and create lasting impact.
Management Development
Great managers create great employee experiences. Build practical skills in communication, coaching, performance management, decision-making, and team leadership while developing the confidence to lead people effectively.
Looking to develop your team?
Your Penn State alumni advantage can support more than your own development. If you are building capabilities across a team or organization, Penn State Executive & Professional Programs can design a learning experience around your shared goals, challenges, and priorities.
Custom learning solutions are designed with you, delivered in a format that works for your team, and supported beyond the final session.
Designed around your unique challenges
Led by Smeal College faculty and expert industry professionals
Focused on tools your team can apply immediately
Available in-person, online, or blended options
Keep Building On Your Penn State Experience
Frequently Asked Questions
Penn State alumni can choose from programs in supply chain management and leadership, leadership and strategy, analytics, and custom management development. Alumni can take an individual program to build a specific skill or complete qualifying programs toward a Penn State Smeal professional certificate.
Yes. Penn State alumni receive 10% off registration for online programs or 20% off campus open-enrollment programs offered through Penn State Executive & Professional Programs. These short, noncredit programs help working professionals build skills without enrolling in a degree program.
Yes. Alumni can complete three qualifying programs within a subject area to earn a . Individual programs can also be taken on their own to build skills in a specific area.
Yes. Penn State Smeal offers live, online professional development programs designed to fit the schedules of working professionals. Program dates and details vary by offering.