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Your Partner for Education
Explore your future with over one hundred graduate programs in the Quad Cities and let us help find the program that’s right for you!
Invest in Your Future with Education
Considering furthering your education is a big step. Find the program that's right for you and take the next step towards your future.
Educational Programs and Member Institutions
We provide access to information for those considering graduate study. Search our programs and find your next step.

About Us

Our Mission

We strive to develop accessible and wide-ranging program offerings for students. Presenting students with over a hundred different degree programs, certificate programs, and professional update courses to ensure every student receives accessibility to outstanding graduate education in the greater Quad Cities.

The GradCenter was incorporated in 1969 as a non-profit organization and has had the continued support of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and the Quad Cities community. Using this support and maximizing all our resources has allowed the GradCenter to best serve working professionals and help shape community leaders for more than 40 years.

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Getting Started

Congratulations!

We want to be one of the first to commend you on considering furthering your education. Investing in your future requires commitment and the support of your family and friends. With the new advances in technology, courses can now be offered to students in more formats than ever before. Through partnering with regional member institutions of higher education, more than 100 different graduate programs are available.

Universities & Programs

Member Universities & Programs

Member Universities & Programs

As your partner in education, we provide access to information for those considering graduate study. Through our affiliations with member institutions we offer students in the Quad Cities access to a wide range of educational programs and course options. You can search through all our offerings program search!

Services

Invest in your Future with Education

Invest in your Future with Education

Considering furthering your education is a big step. Investing in yourself requires commitment and support of those around you. With increasing advances in technology, courses are now offered to students in unlimited formats. Partnering with regional member institutions of higher education, more than one hundred different graduate programs are available. Take the next step towards your future.

Resources

Building Relationships and Assisting Students

The GradCenter provides a range of services, covering all aspects of the higher education process. Providing a range of services including complete degree programs, non-credit opportunities, certificate programs and professional workshops. Every aspect of the higher education process is covered, helping you invest in your future.

Resources

Insights

Sharing Perspectives and Resources for Growth

Higher education is a rapidly changing and ever-evolving industry. To help our students find the best program to meet their individual needs, we strive to monitor ongoing conversations about higher education so that our staff and students can be informed with current information. Share in our perspectives and use them as a resource as you further your education.

Jun
22

Social Justice In Higher Education Summit

Next week on Wednesday, June 29th, we have partnered with Western Illinois University to host a Leadership Development Conversation & Workshop. This free webinar will feature keynote speaker Dr. Joshua Fredenburg, author of "15 Strategic Keys to Retaining, Engaging, and Developing More Culturally Diverse Leaders of the Emerging Generations."

Dec
16

What You Didn’t Know Was Right In Your Backyard

At the GradCenter, we’re designed for students whose work and family responsibilities make traditional on-campus study difficult, but besides that, there are many other advantages to earning a MBA, certificate or taking professional update courses through the GradCenter, especially with Western Illinois University-Quad City’s programs.    

Mar
15

Here a Blog, There a Blog

Being in a graduate program is all about reading, writing and sharing information, right? We came across this entry on a PhD program site and thought it was a good read worth sharing: 50 Blogs Every Graduate Student Should Read.

Corporations & Businesses

Helping You Develop Tools to Create Opportunities

The Quad Cities area is very fortunate to have so many institutions of higher education available in our community. These organizations help provide professional development and career growth opportunities for our employees who wish to further their own educational growth.

Contact Us

WIU QC Campus
3300 River Drive
Moline, IL 61265