Online Business Management Certificate with Purdue MS/MSE Engineering Management & Leadership
Gain business knowledge that you can apply to your current job as you build momentum for your next career move.
The Business Management Certificate offers an understanding on how to improve business operations. This program is designed to equip students with practical business intelligence and research.
You’ll learn how to make your work days more effective—so that while you keep one eye on your daily responsibilities, you can keep the other on big-picture strategy and goals.
This certificate is required for students applying through Purdue University’s MS/MSE Engineering Management & Leadership Program. If you are not considering applying to this Purdue program, please visit the Online Business Management Certificate for all students.
Graduate certificates from the Kelley School of Business are designed to be flexible and cost-effective.
Your business management certificate will:
Total 12 credit hours
Cost $1,000 per credit hour
Be completed over the course of 6-12 months
Consist of four courses, 3 credits per course
Be completed fully online
Not require GMAT/GRE scores
A bachelor’s degree is required.
Transfer your certificate credits to an online degree program
Earning a graduate certificate is a low-risk way for you to explore the field of business and decide if you want to continue developing your expertise.
Executive Degree Programs makes it easy for you to earn an MBA or MS online. Simply transfer up to 12 of your certificate credits to an MBA or MS degrees.
You can apply your certificate credit to the following degrees:
For questions regarding the certificate and degree program through the Kelley School, please contact us at edp@@indiana.edu.
Course curriculum
In this course, you’ll gain a user-oriented understanding of how accounting information should be managed to ensure its availability on a timely and relevant basis for decision making. The first part of the course reviews financial accounting and reporting while the second part of the course focuses on cost-benefit analysis for evaluating the potential value-added results from planning, organizing, and controlling a firm’s accounting information. The use of cases, forum discussions and computer support is used extensively.
Prerequisite: Previous accounting experience or the accounting primer self-guided course through Kelley School prior to enrollment in C521.
Here’s your introduction to the process of creating a market-driven organization. Specific course topics will include marketing strategy, market research and analysis, and the development of products and services, pricing, distribution and promotion. The course employs lectures, classroom discussion through threaded discussion forums, case analysis, and field research projects.
In this course, you’ll survey the management of operations in manufacturing and service firms. Students will work through diverse activities, such as:
Determining the size and type of production process
Purchasing the appropriate raw materials
Planning and scheduling the flow of materials and the nature and content of inventories
Assuring product quality
Deciding on production hardware and how it gets used
You’ll also learn that managing operations will require both strategic and tactical skills. The topics considered include:
Process analysis
Workforce issues
Materials management
Quality and productivity
Technology
Strategic planning
The course makes considerable use of business cases. Most classes will be spent discussing the cases assigned. For each case, students will be asked to review actual company situations and apply technical and managerial skills to recommending courses of action. Most cases will be taken from manufacturing, but some will be service-oriented. Several of the cases will focus on international companies or challenges.
In this course you will be introduced to strategic management and planning, and asked to develop and execute a business strategy in a business simulation.
The Online MBA at Kelley asks you to develop a wide variety of skills and competencies in management; developing and executing a business plan is only one of these skills. This course should be viewed as in introduction to many issues that you will address again from different perspectives throughout the remainder of the MBA program.
Prerequisite: C521, C570, C580
(Option to take instead of C521 with Purdue and Kelley approval)
In this course, you’ll learn about:
Economic decision making in the business firm
The strategic interaction of business firms in industries
The purchasing and behavior of individual consumers and consumers as a group
The influence of public policy on market outcomes
You’ll also develop:
A fluency with the language of economics and a strong 'economic intuition'
The skills to analyze intra-industry rivalry
An improved understanding of public policy issues
There will be an emphasis on the logical foundations of economic analysis and managerial decision making to promote the understanding and application of various quantitative measures.
(Option to take instead of C560 with Purdue and Kelley approval)
This course offers an introduction to tools for strategic management. It provides an introductory review of the complexities involved in determining long-term strategies. Rather than assessing a firm's environment in terms of broadly defined opportunities and threats, you will:
Examine the dynamics of the competitive environment
Learn how both the pace and direction of industry change are influenced by the resources, capabilities, and competitive interaction of rivals
The course uses discussion forums, team projects, and an interactive simulation.
