Google Cloud for Students
Advance your career by learning Google Cloud at your own pace, earning Cloud Certificates and skill badges, building projects, and connecting with student communities.
Build your future with Google Cloud
Learn at your own pace.
Complete the online program on your own terms. Learn in-demand skills on your schedule and advance your career.
Prepare for in-demand roles.
In the U.S. alone, there are over 505,000 open entry-level roles1 related to a Cloud Cybersecurity Analyst, with a median annual salary of $135,000.2 Make your resume competitive with credentials from Google.
Join a supportive peer community.
Gain access to Developer Student Clubs or attend online events to get hands-on experience.
Prepare for Any Career
Whether you want to be an app builder, an IT architect, or a non-profit leader, you can access training to prepare for your career.
Use code 1m-EDUCR-956 for free access to Qwiklabs Quests.
| Interest area | Career and Google Cloud learning opportunity | Qwiklab Quest |
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Build apps & tools | Website and application developerBuild a website with Google Cloud. Learn about the four Google Cloud website architectures to ensure your website is available and scalable. |
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Derive insights from data | Business & data analystGet insights from Data with BigQuery. Learn best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. |
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Machine learning engineerExplore machine learning models and Explainable AI. Get practice with a set of tools and frameworks to help you develop interpretable and inclusive machine learning models and deploy them with confidence. |
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Data engineer & data scientistPerform Foundational Data, ML, and AI tasks. Looking to get into the fields of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This quest take you through tools like BigQuery, Cloud Speech API, and AI Platform. |
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Run systems & security | Cyber security analystLearn security and identity fundamentals. Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s essential Identity and Access Management (IAM) service and gain experience with security threat and data loss protections tools. |
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DevOps engineerDevOps combines software development and IT operations. In this quest learn DevOps essentials like how to use Google Cloud to improve the speed, stability, availability, and security of your software delivery capability. |
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Cloud EngineerExplore the basics of infrastructure. Get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Stackdriver and Cloud Functions. |
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Prepare for Any Career
Build apps & tools
Website and application developer
Build a website with Google Cloud. Learn about the four Google Cloud website architectures to ensure your website is available and scalable.
~6 hours
Derive insights from data
Business & data analyst
Get insights from Data with BigQuery. Learn best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs.
~5 hours
Run systems & security
Cyber security analyst
Learn security and identity fundamentals. Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s essential Identity and Access Management (IAM) service and gain experience with security threat and data loss protections tools.
~8 hours
Google Cloud offers students access to a tailored learning program that lets them perform hands-on labs, earn badges, and demonstrate skills to employers in high-growth fields.
Step 1: Learn with Google Cloud Skills Boost
Students can request access to free online labs, skill badges, and courses through Google Cloud Skills Boost. Follow a defined plan or build and curate your own path to working and thriving in a cloud-first workplace.
200 free Google Cloud Skills Boost credits
Credits expire one year after they are issued
Step 2: Earn skill badges
A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud. Complete a series of hands-on labs and the challenge lab final assessment to receive a skill badge credential you can share with your network.
Demonstrate your technical skills
Post a skill badge to LinkedIn
Step 3: Earn a Google Cloud Certificate
Students who want to position themselves well to secure employment working with Google Cloud can go further by earning a shareable digital credential with Google Cloud Certificates.
Preview at no-cost on YouTube
No prerequisites required
Step 4: Explore careers
More than 90% of IT leaders want to grow their cloud environments in the next several years, but the majority of them feel their employees lack the skills and knowledge to achieve this growth.3
Learn more about how a Google Cloud skill badge can support cloud skill development and career growth
Start learning the skills
Want to start learning with Google Cloud?
Visit Google Cloud Skills Boost to choose your path, build your skills, and validate your knowledge.
Description
Overview of topics covered in the pathway.
Skill badges
Official Google Cloud skill badge earned upon completion.
Professional certificate
After completing the designated path, check out the corresponding Google Cloud professional certificate to continue your skilling journey.
Get started with Google Cloud training by completing this learning path that introduces you to the fundamentals of Google Cloud. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience in Google Cloud.
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Create and Manage Cloud Resources
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Perform Foundational Data, ML, and AI Tasks in Google Cloud
Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals
Google Cloud Fundamentals for Azure Professionals: Core Infrastructure
Once you complete the path, check out our catalog for 700+ labs and courses to keep going on your professional journey.
A Cloud Digital Leader can articulate the capabilities of core cloud products and services and understand how they benefit organizations. This no cost learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Digital Leader role.
Introduction to Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Innovating with Data and Google Cloud
Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud
Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification to take the next steps on your professional journey.
A Cloud Engineer plans, configures, sets up, and deploys cloud solutions. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Engineering role.
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud
Create and Manage Cloud Resources
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud
Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.
A Cloud Architect designs, develops, and manages robust, secure, scalable, and dynamic solutions. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Architect role.
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Exam
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engineer
Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud
Create and Manage Cloud Resources
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud
Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Deploy and Manage Cloud Environments with Google Cloud
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.
A Data Engineer designs and builds systems that collect and transform the data used to inform business decisions. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Data Engineer role.
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud
Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on Google Cloud
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Operations
Perform Foundational Data, ML, and AI Tasks in Google Cloud
Build and Optimize Data Warehouses with BigQuery
Engineer Data in Google Cloud
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Data Engineer certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.
Description
Overview of topics covered in the pathway.
Get started with Google Cloud training by completing this learning path that introduces you to the fundamentals of Google Cloud. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience in Google Cloud.
A Cloud Digital Leader can articulate the capabilities of core cloud products and services and understand how they benefit organizations. This no cost learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Digital Leader role.
A Cloud Engineer plans, configures, sets up, and deploys cloud solutions. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Engineering role.
A Cloud Architect designs, develops, and manages robust, secure, scalable, and dynamic solutions. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Architect role.
A Data Engineer designs and builds systems that collect and transform the data used to inform business decisions. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Data Engineer role.
Skill badges
Official Google Cloud skill badge earned upon completion.
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Create and Manage Cloud Resources
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Perform Foundational Data, ML, and AI Tasks in Google Cloud
Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals
Google Cloud Fundamentals for Azure Professionals: Core Infrastructure
Introduction to Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Innovating with Data and Google Cloud
Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud
Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud
Create and Manage Cloud Resources
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud
Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Exam
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engineer
Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud
Create and Manage Cloud Resources
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud
Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Deploy and Manage Cloud Environments with Google Cloud
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud
Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on Google Cloud
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Operations
Perform Foundational Data, ML, and AI Tasks in Google Cloud
Build and Optimize Data Warehouses with BigQuery
Engineer Data in Google Cloud
Professional certificate
After completing the designated path, check out the corresponding Google Cloud professional certificate to continue your skilling journey.
Once you complete the path, check out our catalog for 700+ labs and courses to keep going on your professional journey.
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification to take the next steps on your professional journey.
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.
Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Data Engineer certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.
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Join a community
Connect with a community of Googlers, student experts, and fellow new Google Cloud learners who can share their experience and insights with you.
Join your local Google Developer Student Club or apply to create a new chapter on your campus.
Attend live and on-demand Google Cloud events through the Cloud OnAir events platform.
Watch tutorials to learn about what it means to be a student developer and how to grow the skill set needed to flourish in your future career.
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