Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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The graduate certificates in business are designed to allow working professionals to develop expertise and acquire a credential beyond their undergraduate degree. The certificate program allows students to:

Specialize in new areas of business
Update older information or degree
Acquire added skills and credentials to increase their career opportunities

The program allows a student, with guidance of a graduate programs coordinator, to choose a customized program of five to six graduate business classes from the graduate courses offered through the Albers School of Business and Economics. Certificates are awarded in the following areas of specialization: accounting, business administration, business analytics, business valuation, finance, global business, healthcare management, innovation and entrepreneurship, internal auditing, leadership formation, marketing, quantitative economic analysis, and sustainability. Course work for the certificate may be applied to other advanced graduate degrees if enrolled in those degree programs prior to completion of the certificate program.

Upon completion of the requirements for the Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, students will have posted to their transcripts the entry, Certificate of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and be issued a certificate.

Detailed admission requirements are listed below. Seattle University graduate students may also be eligible for the certificate programs. For more information, contact (206) 296-5700..

Admission Requirements

A minimum of an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution
A minimum 2 years of full-time work experience

Requirements

I. Required Course (3)

MGMT 5370 - Business Plan Development 3 credit hours

II. Electives (12)

Choose any 4 electives from either or both of the following areas of emphasis:

Entrepreneurship

BLAW 5305 - Legal Issues for New Ventures 3 credit hours
FINC 5300 - Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation 3 credit hours
FINC 5315 - Entrepreneurial Finance 3 credit hours *
MGMT 5300 - Family-Owned Business 3 credit hours
MGMT 5315 - Community Development and Entrepreneurship Clinic I 3 credit hours
MGMT 5330 - Entrepreneurship: Social Enterprise 3 credit hours
MGMT 5340 - Business Consulting 3 credit hours
MGMT 5360 - Entrepreneurial Strategies and Growth 3 credit hours
MKTG 5340 - New Venture Marketing 3 credit hours
MKTG 5345 - Social Media Marketing 3 credit hours

Innovation

FINC 5300 - Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation 3 credit hours
MGMT 5365 - Management of Change 3 credit hours
MKTG 5310 - New Product Development 3 credit hours
MKTG 5345 - Social Media Marketing 3 credit hours
MKTG 5350 - Creativity and Innovation 3 credit hours
OPER 5310 - Project Management and Control 3 credit hours

Note:

*For students enrolled in the Master of Science in Finance program, FINC 5315 is excluded from the list of eligible electives qualifying for this certificate.