Certificates are intended primarily for working professionals, and provide a "bite-sized" chunk of graduate coursework. See Professional Master of Computer Science (MCS) for additional information.

Students who successfully earn a Big Data Graduate Certificate from EWU should be able to do the following:​​​

• apply advanced knowledge of computing and information systems applications to areas such as networking, database, security and privacy, and Web technologies;
• apply contemporary techniques for managing, mining, and analyzing big data across multiple disciplines;
• be better prepared for career advancement in all areas of data science and information technology;
• communicate their ideas and findings persuasively in written, oral and visual form and to work in a diverse team environment;
• use computation and computational thinking to gain new knowledge and to solve real-world problems of high complexity.