Hillsborough Community College

Accounting Management

Prepares students for positions as accountants or accounting paraprofessionals, focusing on basic accounting functions and skills common to finance, business law, and general business.

Accounting Technology Management

Accounting Technology Operations

Accounting Technology Specialist

Advanced Network Infrastructure

Architectural Design and Construction Technology

Prepares students for careers as construction planners, drafters, estimators, surveyors, building inspectors, or architectural design drafters, and toward the educational requirement for a Florida contractor's license.

Artificial Intelligence

Prepares students for technology-sector occupations such as computer systems analyst, software developer, and AI or machine learning technician, and to update technical competencies for career advancement.

Artificial Intelligence Practitioner

AutoCAD Foundations

This college credit certificate provides students with the basic drafting skills needed for the architectural, building construction, and construction-related engineering fields, highlighting AutoCAD software skills along with introductory manual drafting, construction materials education, and blueprint reading.

Automation

This certificate prepares students for engineering technology support positions dealing with PLCs, automation, and control systems in high tech production, manufacturing, distribution, and engineering research and development facilities.

Automotive Collision Technology Technician

Students in the Automotive Collision Repair and Refinishing program learn automotive painting, body repair, frame straightening, trim and custom painting, tinting, welding, and glass and sheet metal installation.

Automotive Service Technology

This program is designed for high school graduates who are interested in automotive technology as a career option or who desire postsecondary vocational training as a means of expanding or enhancing their career opportunities.

Auxiliary Law Enforcement Officer

Graduates are able to serve as a part-time volunteer law enforcement officer.

Bail Bonding

This program prepares students for licensing and employment as a bail bond agent in the State of Florida, covering the laws, rules, and practices involved in bail bonding required to become a licensed Surety Agent/Bail Bonds Agent.

Biotechnology Laboratory Specialist

Biotechnology Laboratory Technology

Prepares students for positions as biotechnology laboratory technicians, biological technicians, and clinical technicians in the high-skill, high-demand biotechnology industry.

Broadcast Production

This certificate allows students to obtain basic training for a specific entry-level job in broadcast production.

Business Administration

Prepares students to assume management or supervisory positions in business, industry, and government, providing basic skills across accounting, computer usage, management, and marketing.

Business Intelligence Professional

Business Intelligence Specialist

Prepares students for careers in business intelligence and data analysis, combining business fundamentals with programming and information technology coursework.

Business Management

Business Operations

Business Specialist

Cardiac Catheterization

Prepares cardiac catheterization technologists who work alongside physicians to diagnose and treat diseases of the heart and blood vessels using X-ray imaging and to assist as surgical scrubs and circulators during invasive cardiac and vascular procedures.

Chef's Apprentice

This program provides content and competency-based applied learning to prepare students for entry-level positions as a pantry cook, prep cook or lead cook in the culinary field.

Clinical Research Coordinator

Clinical Research Professional

Prepares students to monitor clinical trials, building skills in IRB guidelines, participant safety, recruitment and enrollment, and regulatory compliance for work in biological, pharmaceutical, or behavioral research settings.

Cloud Computing

This program provides students with essential skills for entry-level roles in cloud technology, such as cloud support technician, IT help desk specialist, and junior cloud administrator, focusing on networking, virtualization, security, and enterprise operating systems using major industry-standard cloud platforms.

CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Machinist

This program prepares students for careers in Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining and includes computer aided drafting and design skills, technical communications, maintenance and operation of industrial tools and equipment, quality control and testing, material handling, and programming.

Computed Tomography Advanced Imaging

Computer Engineering Technology

Prepares students for entry-level positions as computer technicians, focusing on diagnosis and repair of hardware and software in micro, mini, and mainframe computers.

Computer Information Technology

Prepares students for careers in computing support, help desk services, software applications, and information systems management, with hands-on skills in hardware, networking, database management, cybersecurity, and systems analysis.

Computer Programmer

This program prepares students for jobs in the field of computer programmer, junior programmer, senior programmer, data manager, programmer analyst, and mid-range computer specialist.

Computer Programming and Analysis

Prepares students for careers in software and application development such as software developer, programmer analyst, and data manager, blending computer science principles with hands-on programming experience.

Computer Programming Specialist

Correctional Officer

This program prepares students for employment as a correctional officer in a criminal justice facility.

Counseling and Human Services

Prepares students to work in counseling, social work, human services, and rehabilitation, providing individual and group counseling, case management, and client advocacy under supervision.

Crime Scene

This program is designed to prepare graduates for work in the field of crime scene investigations and forensics.

Criminal Justice Technology Specialist

Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies

Offers a broad background in the history, philosophy, organization, and operation of the criminal justice system, opening entry-level non-sworn positions and transferring into upper-division programs.

Cross-Over Correctional Officer to Law Enforcement Officer

This cross-over training program provides lateral movement of Florida certified Correctional Officers to Law Enforcement Officers.

Cross-Over Correctional Probation Officer to Law Enforcement Officer

This cross-over training program provides lateral movement of Florida certified Correctional Probation Officers to Law Enforcement Officers.

Culinary and Dietetic Management

Prepares students for careers combining culinary skills with dietary and nutrition services management, including menu development, food safety, and clinical dietetics coursework.

Culinary Arts

The purpose of this program is to prepare students for employment in commercial and institutional positions such as bakers, pantry cooks, prep cooks, and lead cooks in the culinary industry and to provide supplemental training for persons currently employed in these occupations.

Culinary Management

Provides the skills necessary for employment as a restaurant cook or chef; the program is accredited by the American Culinary Federation Foundation's Accrediting Commission.

Cybersecurity

Prepares students for jobs in fields such as computer systems analyst, computer network specialist, computer support specialist, or network systems engineer.

Cybersecurity Analyst

Cybersecurity Operations

Prepares students for careers in cybersecurity operations, covering networking, Linux, network security, and a cybersecurity capstone.

Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

Database Administrator

This certificate prepares students for jobs such as a junior or entry-level database administrator.

Database Technology

Prepares graduates for entry-level roles such as database technician, junior database administrator, and data analyst, with foundational knowledge in database design, programming, and administration.

Dental Hygiene

Provides the skills and knowledge needed to pass national and state board examinations and become a licensed dental hygienist performing procedures such as scaling, root planing, radiographs, and oral hygiene education.

Diagnostic Medical Sonography Technology

Trains sonographers to use high-frequency sound waves to create diagnostic images of the body under physician supervision, with graduates eligible for national registry examinations.

Diesel Systems Technician

This program provides entry level skills in heavy truck service and systems operation, including shop safety, OSHA rules, applied math and science principles, use of shop tools and equipment, component identification, and EPA rules on hazardous waste handling.

Digital Forensics

Digital Media/Multimedia Instructional Technology

This certificate prepares students for initial employment as an instructional developer, instructional media integrator, or instructional media specialist.

Digital Media/Multimedia Production

This certificate prepares students for initial employment as videographers or video editors.

Digital Media/Multimedia Technology

Prepares students for jobs such as desktop publisher, production designer, multimedia specialist, interface designer, and computer graphic designer.

Digital Media/Multimedia Video Production

This certificate prepares students for initial employment as videographers or video editors.

Digital Media/Multimedia Web Production

This certificate is designed to prepare the student for initial employment as a Web production assistant or Web production artist.

Drafting

The drafting college credit certificate provides students with an introduction to the two main software utilized by the architecture and construction industries, highlighting AutoCAD and Revit skills along with introductory manual drafting, construction materials education, and blueprint reading.

Early Childhood Education

Prepares students for careers in early childhood education, including preschool teaching and program administration.

Early Childhood Education: Administrator

Early Childhood Education: Preschool

Echocardiography

Prepares students for employment as cardiovascular technologists (echocardiographers) who use ultrasound to image the heart aiding cardiologist diagnosis, with graduates eligible for national registry examinations.

Electronics Engineering Technology

Prepares students for entry-level positions as electronics engineering technicians who assist engineers with troubleshooting, testing, calculations, and reporting on electronic equipment.

Electronics Technician

This program prepares individuals for employment as electrical and electronics technicians, electronic engineering technicians, or in related occupations, enabling graduates to assemble, install, operate, maintain, troubleshoot and repair electronic equipment used in industry.

Emergency Medical Services

Prepares students for careers in emergency medical services, with EMT and paramedic pathways approved by the Florida Department of Health and eligibility for Florida or National Registry examinations.

Emergency Medical Technician

EMT training is a one-semester program designed to prepare students to provide basic life support measures, as a member of an ambulance crew, at the scene of an accident, during transport to a hospital or medical facility, and in the medical facility.

Engineering Technology

A comprehensive program covering computer-aided drafting, electronics, instrumentation, processes, materials, quality, and safety, emphasizing advanced manufacturing and aligned with the MSSC Production Technician certification.

Engineering Technology Support Specialist

This certificate prepares students for entry level technical jobs in high tech production, manufacturing, distribution and engineering research and development facilities, aligned with the MSSC Certified Production Technician (CPT) certification.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This program provides students the fundamental skills necessary to start and operate their own businesses, focusing on the development of an entrepreneurial mindset that enhances problem solving, creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration.

Entrepreneurship Strategies

Building upon the 12 and 18 credit certificates in Entrepreneurship, this program is designed to prepare students to start, execute, and grow a small business, or work as a value-adding employee intrapreneur for an existing business.

Entrepreneurship Ventures

Building upon the 12 credit certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, this certificate is designed for students interested in launching their own business venture or working in a small to medium sized business upon graduation.

Event Planning Management

This program prepares students for immediate employment in the hospitality industry with employable skills in the events planning area of hotels, resorts, convention centers, cruise ships and other hospitality-related areas.

Financial Technology

The Financial Technology College Credit Certificate program is for the student seeking additional certifications or knowledge in Financial Technology.

Financial Technology

Delivers coursework in financial technology and information technology, emphasizing financial analytics, data visualization, machine learning in finance, and cloud-based financial solutions for careers in banking and finance.

Fire Fighter

Graduates are eligible to take the state certification examination administered by the Florida Bureau of Fire Standards and Training to become a certified fire fighter in Florida.

Fire Officer Supervisor

Fire Science Technology

Prepares students for jobs as fire science technicians, fire officers, fire safety inspectors, building inspectors, or in fire insurance sales.

Food and Beverage Management

This certificate provides a program of study designed to prepare students for employment as supervisors and managers in the food and beverage sectors of the hospitality industry.

Food and Beverage Operations

Game Design and Development - Authoring

This certificate is designed to prepare students for initial employment as a digital media/multimedia author.

Graphic Design Production

Healthcare Support Specialist

Health Navigator

Prepares students to enter the workforce as a health navigator, patient navigator, or community health worker, and to pursue further study in public health or health education.

Health Navigator Specialist

Heavy Equipment Service Technician

This program provides entry level skills in heavy equipment service and systems operation, including shop safety, OSHA rules, applied math and science principles, use of shop tools and equipment, component identification, and EPA rules on hazardous waste handling.

Help Desk Support Technician

This certificate prepares students for jobs such as help desk technician, junior or entry-level technical support, IT help desk support technician, or desktop support technician.

Homeland Security Specialist

Home Staging Specialist

The purpose of this program is to prepare students for careers in the interior design industry as home staging specialists, trained to design room layouts for the home furnishings and decor retail industry and to prepare interior room layouts to market homes for the real estate industry.

Hospitality and Tourism Management

Prepares students for supervisory jobs in the hospitality industry as hotel, motel, recreation, or resort managers, with articulation into hospitality baccalaureate programs.

Human Resource Assistant

This program teaches students the process of accomplishing administrative support functions for human resources managers in the areas of employee benefits, recruitment and staffing, training and development, salary and compensation, employee relations, and safety and worker's compensation.

Industrial Management Technology

Prepares students for jobs as industrial managers and for advancement in various technical fields, with articulation of several industry training programs.

Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship

Provides students the opportunity to learn entrepreneurial skills including ideation, business and financial modeling, rapid prototyping, and design thinking for work in start-ups or established companies.

Internet Services Technology

Equips students with technical and creative skills for careers in web design, site development, and internet architecture, including web authoring, multimedia design, programming logic, and project management.

Internet Services Technology Web Development Specialist - Designer

This program prepares students for internet-related jobs such as Web designer, site designer or internet architect, and transfers into the associate degree program titled Internet Services Technology-Web Designer.

Internet Services Technology Web Development Specialist - Developer

This program prepares students for internet-related jobs such as Webmaster, Web developer, site developer and internet programmer.

IT Project Management

Prepares students for jobs such as IT program manager, IT project manager, or IT project analyst.

Laser and Photonics Technician

Law Enforcement

This program prepares students for employment as a law enforcement officer.

Lean Manufacturing

This certificate prepares students for engineering technology support positions dealing with quality systems and their implementation in high tech production, manufacturing, distribution, and engineering research and development facilities.

Logistics and Transportation Specialist

This program is designed to develop the student's general employability by improving work attitudes, communication, critical thinking, technical skills, problem-solving skills and occupation-specific skills relative to supply chain management.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

This program is currently on pause and is not accepting applications.

Mechatronics

This program provides technical skill proficiency and competency-based applied learning covering the fundamental aspects of Mechatronics, including maintenance techniques, computer aided drafting/design, technical communications, maintenance and operation of industrial components, material handling, and proper use of tools and instrumentation.

Medical Information: Medical Coder

Graduates of this program are eligible to apply for the Medical Coding CPC examination administered by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC).

Medical Laboratory Science

Medical Laboratory Science

An articulated program for students who have earned an Applied Technology Diploma in medical laboratory technology, completing additional credit hours at Hillsborough College to earn the associate degree.

Medical Office Administration

Prepares students for positions such as medical office manager, medical office assistant, medical coder, medical billing clerk, medical records clerk, insurance processor, or medical transcriptionist.

Medical Office Management - Billing

Prepares individuals to support management by expediting and facilitating the maintenance and production of correspondence and records, transcribing recordings, telecommunicating, maintaining office budget, preparing correspondence, filing documents, and assisting in the administration of policy.

Medical Office Management - Management

Prepares individuals to support management by expediting and facilitating the maintenance and production of correspondence and records, transcribing recordings, telecommunicating, maintaining office budget, preparing correspondence, filing documents, and assisting in the administration of policy.

Medical Office Specialist

This college certificate will prepare students for medical office opportunities.

Microcomputer Repairer/Installer

This certificate is designed to prepare students for employment as computer engineering technicians in electronics/information technology.

Motion Picture Production Management

Network Enterprise Administration

This certificate prepares students for such jobs as junior or entry-level systems administrator, junior or entry-level network engineer.

Network Infrastructure

This certificate prepares students for jobs such as junior or entry-level network infrastructure engineer, junior or entry-level infrastructure specialist.

Network Security/Cybersecurity: Cisco

This certificate prepares students for jobs such as junior or entry-level Cisco security technician, junior or entry-level network security technician.

Network Security Cybersecurity: Linux

This certificate prepares students for jobs such as junior or entry-level Unix Security technician, junior or entry-level Linux Security technician.

Network Security/Cybersecurity: Windows

This certificate prepares students for jobs such as junior or entry-level Windows Server systems engineer.

Network Server Administration

This certificate prepares students for jobs such as junior or entry-level IT support and administration, junior or entry-level Windows Server administrator, junior or entry-level network administrator.

Network Support Technician

This certificate prepares students for such jobs as junior or entry-level network support technician, junior or entry-level network specialist, help desk technician, or support technician.

Network Systems Technology

Provides the skills to plan, install, configure, monitor, troubleshoot, secure, and manage computer networks in LAN/WAN environments for roles such as network technician, network specialist, and computer security specialist.

Nuclear Medicine Technology

Trains nuclear medicine technologists to prepare and administer radiopharmaceuticals, operate nuclear instruments, and perform imaging procedures, with graduates eligible for national registry examinations and Florida licensure.

Nursing

The RN to BSN program allows registered nurses holding an associate degree in nursing to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing online, focusing on diverse population health, evidence-based practice, and nursing leadership and management.

Nursing

Prepares graduates to apply for the RN licensing examination administered by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing; the program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.

Office Administration

Prepares students for mid-management positions such as administrative office manager, office manager, staff assistant, executive secretary, or human resource technician.

Office Management

Office Specialist

Office Support

Ophthalmic Laboratory Technician

This program teaches surfacing, finishing and other related tasks necessary to fabricate prescription eyewear for work in a wholesale or retail optical laboratory.

Opticianry

Prepares opticians to measure, fit, and adapt eyeglasses and contact lenses, with coursework in optics, anatomy, contact lenses, and refractometry and eligibility for state and national certification and licensure exams.

Paralegal (Legal Assisting)

The Paralegal/Legal Assisting Advanced Technical Certificate is designed to enable students who already hold a bachelor's degree or higher to take paralegal courses and qualify to take the Certified Legal Assistant exam, preparing them for work of a legal nature in law offices, corporations or governmental agencies.

Paralegal Studies (Legal Assisting)

Prepares students for a paraprofessional career as a paralegal (legal assistant), performing legal research, case development, preparation of legal documents, and client interviews under attorney supervision.

Paramedic

In addition to performing the skills of an EMT, paramedics are trained in advanced life support techniques, including endotracheal intubation, electrocardiogram monitoring and interpretation, defibrillation, and administration of intravenous fluids and medications.

Pneumatics, Hydraulics and Motors for Manufacturing

This certificate prepares students for engineering technology support positions dealing with facilities operations and maintenance in high tech production, manufacturing, distribution, and engineering research and development facilities.

Private Investigator Intern

This program is for individuals who are interested in becoming a licensed Class C Private Investigator, satisfying the Florida Statute 493 requirement to take and pass a Private Investigator Intern course.

Project Manager Associate

Radiation Therapy

Prepares radiation therapists to administer high-energy radiation cancer treatments using linear accelerators and CT simulators, working directly with radiation oncologists through an integrated didactic and clinical curriculum.

Radiation Therapy Specialist

This program is designed for students who have successfully completed an A.S. program in Radiography and are certified by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), training radiation therapists to administer high energy radiation treatments with external beam linear accelerators.

Radio and Television Broadcast Programming

A hands-on program preparing students for careers in television, radio, and internet media production using professional video cameras, nonlinear editing, and audio software.

Radiography

Prepares radiographers to perform diagnostic X-ray procedures with clinical and laboratory experience, with eligibility for the ARRT national certification examination and Florida licensure.

Real Estate Paralegal

The Real Estate Paralegal certificate prepares individuals for entry into the legal field as Real Estate Paralegals, Title Company Professionals, and Escrow/Closing Officers, covering property law, real property transactions, ethics and professional responsibility, contract law, and employability skills.

Respiratory Care

Prepares students in the allied health discipline of respiratory care for the treatment, management, diagnostic evaluation, and rehabilitation of patients with cardiopulmonary abnormalities.

Restaurant Management

Provides the skills necessary for employment as a manager of a hotel/motel, restaurant, cafe, bar, coffee shop, catering agency, or fast-food service; accredited by the American Culinary Federation Foundation.

Robotics and Simulation

This certificate is designed to expose students to the basic fundamentals of robotics and simulation and prepare students for employment as an entry level Robotics and Simulation technician.

Supply Chain Management

Prepares students for careers and further education in transportation, distribution, and logistics, covering procurement, warehousing, planning, quality control, and asset management.

Surgical Technology

Prepares surgical technologists who work under a surgeon's supervision to facilitate safe invasive surgical procedures, maintaining sterile technique and a safe operating room environment.

Sustainable Design

The Sustainable Design college credit certificate provides students with an introduction to the principles of sustainable design and construction in buildings, focusing on the building design regulatory environment, construction materials quantification, building systems using Revit, and building structural principles.

Technology Project Manager

This program provides content and competency-based applied learning to prepare students for further education and careers as project managers and professionals incorporating IT project management strategies in the Information Technology career cluster.

University Transfer

Hillsborough College offers one Associate in Arts degree, a university transfer program designed to meet the requirements for students to transfer to the upper-division level of a college or university to continue working toward a bachelor's degree.

Veterinary Technology

Prepares students for careers as veterinary technicians in settings such as private practice, animal shelters, agriculture, biomedical research, and zoo/wildlife medicine.

Visual Assessment

This program provides training in safety and sports vision, low vision and refraction for students who have already earned an associate degree in Opticianry.

Water Quality Technician

This certificate is designed to prepare students for immediate entry into a career in the workforce as a water quality technician.

Welding Technology

This program is designed to prepare students for a career in the welding technologies field, teaching basic entry level welding skills in SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, and GTAW processes along with welding safety, symbols, and blueprint reading.

Welding Technology - Advanced

The Advanced program is designed for incumbent welders that need to develop and expand their existing skills.