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Core Business Skills Graduate Certificate
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The Core Business Skills Graduate Certificate is ideal for those who wish to prepare for the rigors of the MBA or improve their core business skills for career advancement.
Courses address analytical and management skills to enhance the critical thinking and strategic skill set of professional managers. Students who successfully complete this program and are admitted into Sacred Heart University's MBA program will be able to use this program's coursework in fulfillment of their MBA program requirements.
Admission Criteria
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited four-year college or university
- Completed Graduate Application for Admission, including a resume and official undergraduate and graduate transcripts
- Two letters of recommendation from employers or faculty
- Personal statement of interest in and qualifications for the graduate program
- Admission requires approval by the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology
Program Structure
- Courses are academically accredited at the graduate level
- Students participate in thirty-six hours of classroom instruction per course
- Courses are offered in a hybrid format for maximum flexibility
- Some completed courses may be applied toward the MBA Degree (Additional application requirements are necessary)
- Certificate students attend courses with MBA students from a variety of backgrounds and companies, ensuring exposure to a broad range of learning experiences
Required Courses
Provides an introduction to both accounting and information systems with a focus on the preparation and interpretation of financial statements and the effective planning, implementation, and integration of information technology.
3.0 Credit(s)
Provides an introduction to three key areas in finance-financial markets, financial management, and valuation-focusing on how capital is effectively raised and invested in a value-based management framework. Topics include: analysis of firm performance using financial ratios and other measures, techniques to assess new opportunities including new product lines, projects or corporate investments, an introduction to global capital markets, the relationship between risk and return, determinants of a firm's cost of raising capital, and the basic factors impacting the value of financial securities.
3.0 Credit(s)
This competency-based course will provide students with a solid understanding of the fundamental theories and principles in key business disciplines and will provide students with business skills to perform in a modern business organization. Upon successful completion of this course, students will demonstrate competencies in business writing, business presentation, design-thinking, and talent management.
3.0 Credit(s)
Many firms worldwide demonstrate that operations and supply chains can be effective weapons for building and sustaining an organization's competitive advantage. This course addresses the key operations and supply chain issues with strategic and tactical implications. The course will cover manufacturing, service, business, nonprofit, and government organizations in this course. It will focus on five major decision areas: process, quality, capacity, inventory, and supply chain
3.0 Credit(s)
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