Post-baccalaureate Business Certificates
The Pamplin School of Business offers a Post-baccalaureate Business Certificate program for students who would like to utilize an interesting variety of courses in many specialized areas. Our faculty created a curriculum that provides a unique opportunity for post-baccalaureate students to choose a concentration, gain additional training, and develop new competencies by completing the Post-baccalaureate Business Certificate program.
Learning Goals and Objectives for PSOB certificate programs:
Students who successfully complete all requirements for a certificate should be able to:
- Analytical Skills: Possess analytical, research, and critical thinking skills needed by middle and upper-level managers.
- Acquire the competencies needed to identify, analyze, and evaluate alternative solutions to business problems, which could include writing and presenting research reports.
- Leadership Competencies: Possess the interpersonal competencies needed to be effective managers and leaders.
- Be skilled at oral and written communication.
- Value System: Evaluate the ethical and societal implications of managerial decisions.
- Understand the overarching issues of corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
Admission Requirements
To be admitted to this program, students must hold a bachelor’s degree from an AACSB accredited institution and submit the following application components:
- Current resume
- Official transcripts (from all previously attended academic institutions) (minimum GPA of 3.0 or higher)
- Online application form
- Statement of goals
- International Applicants: All foreign degrees will be evaluated by International Student Services prior to an admission decision
- International Applicants: an official score from either the TOEFL (minimum score of 88) or IELTS (minimal score of 7.0) exam is required
Certificate Requirements
Students complete a twelve-credit hour program in one of the following areas: business analytics, customer experience and management, entrepreneurship, finance, health care management, marketing, nonprofit management, operations and technology management, personal selling, strategy, or sustainability, and then receive a post-baccalaureate certificate in that area. Students may also create a general program where they survey courses from different business disciplines. There are distance-learning options for some courses in the certificate program.
Business Analytics
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Select four courses from the following:
| BUS 510 | Economics and Metrics for Sustainability | 3 |
| BUS 512 | Leadership and Higher Level Management | 3 |
| BUS 513 | Social Responsibility in Organizations | 3 |
| BUS 515 | Social Venture Management | 3 |
| BUS 523 | Negotiation and Persuasion Strategies | 3 |
| BUS 526 | Sustainability Marketing | 3 |
| BUS 544 | Managing Innovation and Technology | 3 |
| BUS 571 | New Venture Creation | 3 |
| BUS 572 | Family Business Planning | 3 |
| BUS 573 | International Ventures | 3 |
| BUS 574 | New Venture Finance and Accounting | 3 |
Finance
Select four courses from the following:
| BUS 519 | Business Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 530 | Corporate Finance | 3 |
| BUS 531 | International Finance | 3 |
| BUS 532 | Security and Portfolio Analysis | 3 |
| BUS 533 | Financial Markets and Institutions | 3 |
| BUS 534 | Derivatives and Risk Management | 3 |
| BUS 536 | Personal Financial Planning | 3 |
| BUS 537 | Applied Financial and Economic Forecasting | 3 |
| BUS 538 | Corporate Financial Strategy: M&A and Restructure | 3 |
| BUS 539 | Research Methods in Finance | 3 |
| BUS 543 | Decision Modeling and Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 545 | Project Management | 3 |
| BUS 552 | Prescriptive Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 555 | Database Management | 3 |
| BUS 562 | Real Estate Finance | 3 |
| BUS 564 | Macro Economics in the Global Economy | 3 |
| BUS 567 | Applied Portfolio Management | 3 |
| BUS 568 | Income Tax Planning | 3 |
Marketing
Select four courses from the following:
Operations and Technology Management
Select four courses from the following:
| BUS 505 | Introduction to Operations & Technology Management | 3 |
| BUS 519 | Business Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 540 | Process Analysis & Quality Management | 3 |
| BUS 542 | Systems Analysis and Design | 3 |
| BUS 543 | Decision Modeling and Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 545 | Project Management | 3 |
| BUS 546 | Supply Chain Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 547 | Inventory Management | 3 |
| BUS 548 | Project Management Processes and Certification | 3 |
| BUS 550 | Excel Spreadsheet Modeling | 3 |
| BUS 552 | Prescriptive Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 553 | Introduction to R Programming in Business | 3 |
| BUS 555 | Database Management | 3 |
| BUS 556 | Distribution Center Operations | 3 |
| BUS 557 | Power Problem Solving with VBA | 3 |
| BUS 558/BUS 463 | Introduction to Data Science | 3 |
| BUS 559/BUS 469 | Object Oriented Analysis and Design | 3 |
Strategy
Select four courses from the following:
Sustainability
Additional Course Options
Business Communication and special topic courses offered with a
BUS 590-592 designation, may be used in a concentration with the approval of the M.B.A. program director.