Business Foundations - Online Graduate Certificate
Broaden Your Business Acuity.
The online certificate in Graduate Business Foundations is designed to provide a breadth of business knowledge at the graduate level. This certificate can serve as a stand-alone program to help broaden your understanding of business, or as initial preparation for pursuing an MBA or other graduate business degree.
Why UW-Whitewater Online?
- Asynchronous program lets you learn day or night
- Build connections through online assignments and discussion boards
- Online MBA ranked #25 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report
Fully Online
No requirements to come to campus.
Flexible
Attend full-time or part-time.
Specialized
Enhance your knowledge base and expand your career.
Business Foundations - Online Graduate Certificate
Certificate Requirements
The Graduate Business Foundations certificate program requires completion of five courses. All courses are 2 credits each and are available online. This 10-credit, 100% online program includes five courses that you’ll select based on your career goals and the prerequisites you need to complete for your graduate program.
Course options include:
Core courses*:
- ACCOUNT 701 Accounting Foundations
- ECON 704 Economics Foundations
- FNBSLW 718 Financial Management
Elective courses:
- BEINDP 740 Persuasion and Negotiation Strategies
- ECON 736 Business Conditions Analysis OR ECON 737 Managerial Economics
- ITSCM 745 Strategic Technology and Innovation Management OR ITSCM 746 Supply Chain Innovation
- ITSCM 770 Fundamentals of Project Management
- MARKETNG 747 Marketing Strategy
- MARKETNG 766 Ethics in the Marketplace OR MANGEMNT 759 Social Responsibility
* Up to 1 core class may be substituted with 1 elective course
NOTE: These courses fulfill the Common Body of Knowledge requirements that must be completed by some students enrolling in the UW-Whitewater Master of Business Administration program. (These students typically do not have an undergraduate degree in business.) However, these courses cannot be applied toward the MBA program's 36-credit degree requirements.
Admission Requirements
No GMAT required.
To qualify for admission to the certificate program, students must have a bachelor's degree from a recognized institution and meet graduate admission criteria.
If you do not meet the graduate admission criteria, please email us to determine if you could be admitted on a conditional basis.
International students must meet additional criteria and will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Contact us for information and assistance.
