Professional Certification Center
Located inside of the South Campus Library (Photo, right), the North 
Arkansas College Professional Certification Center offers high-stakes testing for more than 2,000 individual certification, occupational assessment and professional licensure exams. These certification tests cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from information technology to nuclear medicine to pilot licenses. By taking certain professional certification exams, North Arkansas College students and other test candidates can gain credit for their real-life work and study experience.
The Professional Certification Center is staffed with knowledgable, licensed testing administrators using the latest software/hardware and state-of-the-art monitoring equipment. Thanks to these same selfless, hard-working staff members, the Center is able to provide a secure, comfortable and trouble-free testing environment for examination candidates.
With vendors such as Pearson Vue, CompTIA, CISCO, Microsoft, TSA/PAN, FCC and EPA among many more, the opportunity for certification is almost limitless. Additionally, those who already have obtained certification may also be eligible to receive college credit.
Founded on July 7th, 2003, The Professional Certification Center continues to grow and draw candidates from an ever-expanding geographical area. In addition, we work with regional and national businesses to improve productivity and proficiency by certifying their staff in many applications. There is a map and an updated schedule available online at northark.edu, but feel free to call us at (870) 391-3533 if further driving directions are required or if there is any other assistance that we can provide.
Hours of Operation
The Professional Certification Center is open from 9am to 5pm daily, Monday through Friday. 
We can also accommodate some testing on Saturdays from 9am to 3pm provided prior reservations are made through the individual test vendors at least two weeks before the desired examination date. Since most of the exams offered by the Center require the candidate to first register online with the test provider prior to the examination, all testing at the Center is necessarily by appointment ONLY. For further information, please call (870) 391-3533 during regular business hours. Please be patient: other duties may call us away from the phone temporarily, so do leave a message or try again at a later time if we are not immediately available to answer your call.
