General Business Certificates
Graduate Certificates are a way to engage and develop yourself without committing to a multi-year degree program as a working professional. Designed to target specific functional areas of interest to employers, Carlson Graduate Certificates allow students to enroll in 12 credits (4-6 courses) of graded, transcripted coursework that can usually be completed in a single academic year. Candidates who complete a certificate may apply it to the associated degree as indicated below if they decide to continue.
Available Certificates
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Explores key financial principles, such as corporate financial statements, reporting, and management, while also diving deep into specialized areas, including bond valuation, international financial systems, finance market tools, understanding portfolio management, risk, performance evaluation, and attribution.
Associated Graduate Degree: Part-Time or Online MBA
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Focuses on four key areas of analytics: descriptive, predictive, causal, and prescriptive while also using analytical tools and programs such as Python, R, and Tableau.
Associated Graduate Degree: Master in Applied Analytics
*This Certificate only has a Fall start.
*Please note that this Certificate does have prerequisites:
- Applicants must have completed at least one semester college-level Math course (e.g. Calculus, Linear Algebra) with a grade of "C" or better (or grade equivalent).
- Demonstrated proficiency in computer programming is required. The following programming languages satisfy the requirement: Python, R, C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Pascal, and Fortran.
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Mathematics Essentials for Business Analytics - MABA 6490 Programming for Business Analytics - MABA 6311 AI for Competitive Advantage - MABA 6251 Practical Statistics for Business Applications - MABA 6121 Data Management and Big Data- MABA 6321 Data Visualization - MABA 6341 |
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Develop a foundation in financial reporting, basic corporate financial management, and applied corporate financial decision making as well as a deeper understanding of financial markets and their functions, growth through mergers and acquisitions, and financial theories in corporations’ decisions.
Associated Graduate Degree: Part-Time or Online MBA
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Financial Accounting - MBA 6030 Financial Management - MBA 6230 Financial Decisions - FINA 6241 |
Financial Services Industry - FINA 6123 Mergers and Acquisitions - FINA 6222 Adv Corp Financial Decisions - FINA 6242 Financial Modeling - FINA 6322 International Financial Management - FINA 6621 |
Learn the key principles in effective leadership, identifying personal leadership through feedback, and developing leadership skills through practice. Also, understand how to achieve organizational goals by leading others, factors that affect performance, negotiation strategies, how to work in cross-cultural teams, group dynamics, decision making, cooperation, conflict, and power.
Associated Graduate Degree: Part-Time or Online MBA
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Leadership & Personal Dev - MGMT 6465
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Explore management principles in corporate direction, strategic decision making, implementing business plans, and key financial metrics in decision making across areas such as business portfolio management, strategic alliances, industry variance and analysis, role of technology, managing across borders, and how organizations innovate/change.
Associated Graduate Degree: Part-Time or Online MBA
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Strategic Management - MBA 6300 Financial Accounting - MBA 6030 |
Corporate Strategy - MGMT 6085 Industry Analysis - MGMT 6031 Technology Strategy - MGMT 6070 Managing the Strategy Process - MGMT 6033 Strategic Alliances - MGMT 6032 Competing Globally - MGMT 6040 Management of Innovation - MGMT 6050 |
Learn basic marketing concepts and skills in strategy development as well as critical principles in management of marketing function before diving deeper into areas such as pricing, brand, buyer behavior, channels of marketing, data analysis in marketing, and international practices in marketing.
Associated Graduate Degree: Part-Time or Online MBA
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Marketing Management - MBA 6210 Strategic Marketing - MKTG 6088 |
Brand Strategy - MKTG 6082 Pricing Strategy - MKTG 6075 Buyer Behavior - MKTG 6055 Digital Marketing - MKTG 6086 International Marketing - MKTG 6072 Marketing Channels - MKTG 6060 MKTG Research-Rapid Insights - MKTG6051 Data Analysis for Managers - MBA 6120 Power of Story - MKTG 6087 |
Contact Graduate Certificates
- Email: carlsoncert@umn.edu
- Phone: 612-625-5555