Certificate in Business Fundamentals
Accelerate your career growth and earning potential by enrolling in our business fundamentals certificate program. Designed for technical professionals, clinicians, and individuals with non-business degrees, this business certificate focuses on developing a core set of business skills needed to operate and manage any enterprise.
With the Business Fundamentals certificate program, you'll develop competencies in marketing, accounting and finance, managerial decision-making and the design and management of business processes through our three fundamental business courses.
In less than a year, you'll be prepared to advance your career into a managerial role with greater responsibility for your organization's success. In addition, credits earned from the Business Fundamentals certificate count towards our stackable Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, should you choose to pursue a master's degree.
To learn more about required courses for this program, view the current university catalog.
This certificate program is offered fully online, in a hybrid format, and in a classroom environment. The sessions include seminars, lectures, simulations, case analyses, and small group activities. Student interaction inside and outside of the classroom is key to a successful experience.
Classes you'll take
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This course focuses on key business areas such as managing individual performance, team and intergroup dynamics, leadership, human resource management, organizational design, decision-making, and management of change.
This course focuses on the role of accounting and finance in managerial decision-making, including how managers access capital, invest in resources, budget operations, and report economic events.
This course explores the crucial aspects of marketing with emphasis on the customer and the marketing mix and includes development of analytical and critical thinking skills through case study, and the design and assessment of a basic marketing plan.
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