This fall, 海角社区鈥檚 MBA program will begin offering graduate business certificates in data analytics, entrepreneurship, finance, and strategic management.
Certificate programs are ideal for busy professionals who want to deepen or develop their skills in a specific area without committing to a full degree program. Each program consists of four core courses from the MBA curriculum. The courses prepare students for professional success using Harvard Business Review journal articles, case studies, simulations, and experiential learning.
Core courses in each program include:
- Business analytics: quantitative methods, data analytics, data programming, predictive analytics
- Entrepreneurship: marketing management, strategic management, entrepreneurship, innovation and design
- Strategic management: financial management, business ethics, marketing management, strategic management
- Finance: accounting for managers, managerial finance, investment theory and portfolio management, international finance
Each course will meet one night per week for eight weeks at the Hagfors Center on Augsburg鈥檚 Minneapolis campus. A certificate can be completed in as little as eight months.
Participants will take courses alongside MBA students and will be eligible to join Augsburg鈥檚 innovation speaker series. As part of the MBA curriculum, courses taken in a certificate program can also be applied toward degree completion for the program.
An undergraduate business degree is not required to enroll, but there may be prerequisite work for statistics and Excel.聽Visit the Augsburg MBA website for more information or to apply.
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