Nov 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Certificate in Fundamentals of Management


Graduate Certificates in Business


See Graduate Admissions Programs for admission materials.

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 eight 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, Finance, Fundamentals of Management, Global Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leadership Formation, Marketing, and Risk Advisory and Assurance. 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.

Requirements


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

Choose one of the following:


II. Electives (6)


NOTES:


*May count as elective if not used for requirement

Students working on Professional Master of Business Administration (PMBA or OMBA) degree programs simultaneously must complete at least 12 certificate credits beyond any Core/Foundation courses that are required for the degree, i.e., MBA 5011 - Teams, Leadership and Decision-Making and BETH 5120 - Business Ethics and Social Responsibility. PMBA/OMBA students must complete 9 credits of electives instead of 6 to meet this requirement. 

Minimum credits for certificate: (16)