Graduate certificates offer the opportunity to specialize or enhance your education without committing to a full degree. Leeds offers four graduate certificates available to current students and working professionals.

NEW: Business Administration Certificate, focusing on Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Business Analytics Methods

The graduate certificate Business Analytics Methods is a four course long option that allows you to specialize in interpretation of business data. Completing this certificate will give you the skills to find a job or expand your career as an analyst in many positions such as: business intelligence, marketing, accounting, human resource management and many more. All courses must be passed with a B grade or better to count towards the certificate.

Required Courses

  1. MSBC 5030 Quantitative Methods
  2. MSBX 5405 Structured Data Modeling and Analysis
  3. MSBX 5415 Advanced Data Analytics
  4. MSBX 5420 Unstructured and Distributed Data Modeling and Analysis

Marketing Analytics

The graduate certificate Marketing Analytics is a four course long option that allows you to specialize in interpretation of marketing data. Completing this certificate will give you the skills to find a job or expand your career as an analyst in many positions such as: marketing intelligence, consumer preference and behavior, social network marketing, digital marketing and many more. All courses must be passed with a B grade or better to count towards the certificate.

Required Courses

  1. APRD 6342 Digital Advertising
  2. MBAX 6330 Market Intelligence
  3. MSBX 5310 Customer Analytics
  4. APRD 6343 Applications of Advanced Statistical Techniques in Advertising

 

Supply Chain Analytics

The graduate certificate Supply Chain Analytics is a four course long option that allows you to specialize in fundamentals of supply chain data. Completing this certificate will give you the skills to find a job or expand your career as an analyst in many positions such as: supply chain network design, purchasing and procurement, demand forecasting and many more. All courses must be passed with a B grade or better to count towards the certificate.

Required Courses

  1. MSBX 5410 Fundamentals of Data Analytics
  2. MSBC 5030 Quantitative Methods
  3. MSBX 5405 Structured Data Modeling and Analysis
  4. MBAX 6843 Supply Chain and Operations Analytics

Supply Chain Foundations

The graduate certificate Supply Chain Foundations is a four-course long option that allows you to specialize in supply chain management. Completing this certificate will give you the skills to find a job or expand your career in many positions such as: transportation, inventory management, operations planning and control and many more. All courses must be passed with a B grade or better to count towards the certificate.

Required Courses

  1. MSBX 5450 Transportation and Logistics
  2. MSBX 5470 Procurement and Contracting
  3. MSBX 5435 Planning and Production
  4. MBAX 6450 International Operations Management

 

Business Analytics Pre-Requisites

Two pre-requisite courses are required and may be fulfilled by the following

Business Analytics Overview

Successful completion of MSBC 5070 - Survey of Business Analytics or successful completion of similar coursework at another university or other qualifying education and/or work experience as evaluated by Leeds faculty and admissions staff.

R Programming Language

Successful completion of MCBX 5410 - Fundamentals of Data Analytics or successful completion of similar coursework at another university or demonstrated experience and competency with the R programming language as evaluated by Leeds faculty and admissions staff.

Supply Chain Pre-Requisites

Successful completion of MSBC 5460 - Supply Chain Strategy or succesful completion of similar coursework at another university or other qualifying education and/or work experience as evaluated by Leeds faculty and admissions staff.

 

 

 

Students who meet the pre-requisites with experience will need to demonstrate and document proficiency in the relevant topic area and may be required to complete a qualifying exam.

Business Administration

Enhance your non-business graduate degree with a focus on Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

  Earn this graduate certificate for non-business professionals to gain a solid understanding of business concepts that will differentiate your skills and expand your options. This certificate is open to students enrolled in or graduated from advanced-degree programs in non-business disciplines and will complement your advanced studies with the fundamental concepts of business, entrepreneurship and innovation. Summer courses will only be offered if minimum enrollment is met.

Beginning in Maymester, take four 1.5 credit courses and two 3 credit courses to complete the certificate and finish is as little as nine months.

Required Courses

MAYMESTER
  1. Marketing Principles
  2. Introduction to Leadership
SUMMER
  1. Introduction to Accounting
  2. Principles of finance
FALL/SPRING - pick two electives*
  1. Introduction to Entrepreneurship
  2. New Venture Creation
  3. New Venture Launch
  4. New Product Development
  5. Commercializing Sustainable Energy

*Subject to approval, CU Boulder Graduate Students may be able to select electives in their home departments to fulfill the certificate elective requirements.

Application Requirements

  1. Must be enrolled in or have earned a non-business graduate degree. 
  2. Unofficial transcripts
  3. Resume
  4. Online application completion

 

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