The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers a variety of non-credit professional education courses that instead confer continuing education units (CEU’s), continuing education credits (CEC’s), continuing medical education credits (CME’s) and professional development hours (PDH’s). The quantity of such professional education coursework credit resulting from a non-credit professional education course is discipline specific and determined through consultation with appropriate professional organizations. The Office for Professional Education coordinates process, along with determining the appropriate platform for offering such courses.
Some discipline-specific examples and agencies regarding CEU, CEC, CME and PDH approval include the following.