Graphic design training for the whole team, taught by working designers
Private group training in Adobe Creative Cloud and design fundamentals, delivered your way: onsite at your offices, live online, or self-paced.
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Delivered your way
Every format draws on the same practitioner-built design curriculum and instructors who do this work for a living. Choose the one that fits your team's schedule.
Live online
Scheduled sessions with a real instructor, joined from anywhere.
- Ask questions and work real cases live
- Cohort dates published for every program
- One free retake within a year
Self-paced eLearning
Available for every program here. Start today, move at your own speed.
- No cohort to wait for
- Same CEUs and credential at the end
- Attend the live class free within a year
Onsite for your team
Bring a course to your agency for the whole team, tailored to your mission.
- Delivered on your schedule
- Tailored to your policies and real cases
- One agreement covers the cohort
Private group training
When you have a team, an office, or a whole component to train, we bring the course to you and shape it around your agency's mission, priorities, and real cases.
- Any course in our design catalog, delivered onsite, live online, or blended
- A curriculum shaped around the files, brand standards, and tools your team already uses
- Scheduling around your team's workload, including split sessions and half days
Open enrollment
Prefer to send a few people rather than book a whole class? Register them into our scheduled public sessions, held throughout the year.
- A published schedule across the design curriculum, beginner through advanced
- Live online, or in person, with the same instructors who teach our private groups
- Seats bought individually when you only need to train one or two people
Most-requested The full design catalog courses
A place to start. Each of these runs onsite, live online, or self-paced, and can be tailored to your team.
Adobe Photoshop
Image editing, retouching, and compositing for print, web, and social.
Adobe Illustrator
Vector artwork, logos, icons, and brand assets built to scale cleanly.
Adobe InDesign
Multi-page layout for reports, manuals, and publications.
Design Fundamentals
Typography, color, hierarchy, and layout for people who are not designers by training.
The full design catalog
From first principles through production work in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, plus the design-thinking foundations that make the tools worth using. Tell us your team's starting point and we will map the sequence.
A training institution your team can stand behind
Graduate School USA has trained working professionals since 1921. Our design instructors are practitioners: they bring the file-level habits, review workflows, and brand-consistency practices that hold up after the class ends.
- Founded 1921 as the USDA Graduate School; 500,000+ government employees trained across 125+ agencies
- ACCET-accredited (ACCET is a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accreditor)
- Center for Leadership and Management runs ECQ-aligned executive development, including the Executive Potential Program since 1995
- 200+ federally experienced subject-matter experts across 400+ courses and certificates
- Available on an active GSA MAS Schedule (SINs 611430 and 541611)
Questions agencies ask
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Can employees train self-paced, and still take the live class later?
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Plan your team's design training
Tell us your topics, headcount, and timeline, and we will propose the right mix for your team.