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MBA Certificates

Earn Credentials with a Graduate Business Certificate

Online, On-Ground, Or Both.

Duration: As few as 8 months | Credit Hours: 12-21| Tuition: $608 per credit hour

Accelerate your career with a graduate business certificate from the University of Saint Mary. We offer a range of in-demand certificates that will help you become an effective leader in today’s work environment.

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USM's In-Demand Programs

Non-degree seeking students can take graduate courses to earn credentials and gain the practical and ethical knowledge to help them live value-centered lives and careers. These certificates are stackable, meaning that the courses required for these certificates will also apply toward credit in the MBA program. Students would earn the MBA by completing the Business Administration certificate and one other certificate.

  • Develop the ability to interpret financial, marketing, economic, and operational data to support evidence-based managerial decisions across complex organizations.
  • Apply analytics to marketing management, including customer insights, digital marketing performance, and pricing strategy.
  • Use data and analytical frameworks to evaluate workforce performance, organizational behavior, and leadership effectiveness.
  • Analyze global economic, cultural, political, and legal data to support decision making.
  • MGT 704 Marketing Management
  • MGT 707 Organizational and Human Resource Management
  • MGT 709 Managerial Economics
  • MGT 710 Legal Environment and Commercial Transactions Law
  • MGT 711 Managerial Accounting
  • MGT 712 Managerial Finance
  • MGT 714 Global Management
  • MGT 795 Strategic Management and Ethics

 

  • Integrate business analytics tools and methodologies to improve operational efficiency, marketing effectiveness, financial planning, and long-term organizational performance.
  • Analyze the benefits, challenges, and potential misuse of analytics in organizations.
  • Master forecasting methods including sampling, resampling, multiple regression, model selection, and social network analysis.
  • Develop the ability to transform raw data into actionable insights.
  • MGT 715 Introduction to Business Analytics
  • MGT 716 Business Analytics Applications
  • MGT 717 Demand and Forecasting
  • MGT 789 Data Analytics for Decision Making - Finance and Accounting

 

  • Develop the ability to lead teams, shape organizational culture, and drive performance through ethical, values-based leadership.
  • Explore the strategy of recruiting, developing, engaging, and retaining top talent.
  • Gain insight into team dynamics, motivation, conflict resolution, diversity, communication, and building high-performing workplace cultures.
  • Build the skills needed to evaluate business data and improve organizational performance.
  • MGT 707 Organizational and Human Resource Management 
  • MGT 731 Management Information Systems 
  • MGT 750 Leadership 
  • MGT 751 Project Management 

  • Understand how health care data is collected, stored, analyzed, and shared using modern health information systems.
  • Develop leadership styles and management strategies to effectively lead hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and health care organizations.
  • Manage recruitment and retention while addressing staffing shortages, burnout, and regulatory requirements.
  • Evaluate legal responsibilities and ethical dilemmas related to patient rights.
  • HCMGT 720 Healthcare Informatics and Technologies
  • HCMGT 721 Leadership and Business Operations in Healthcare
  • HCMGT 722 Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare
  • MGT 731 Management Information Systems

 

  • Understand how HR aligns with organizational strategy to drive performance and productivity.
  • Explore the psychological and social forces that influence individual and group behavior.
  • Develop core management competencies for leading people, managing performance, and building high-impact teams.
  • Gain practical tools to turn workplace conflict into productive outcomes.
  • MGT 707 Organizational and Human Resource Management
  • MGT 753 Conflict Management and Negotiation
  • MGT 757 Training and Development
  • MGT 774 Organizational Change and Development

 

  • Become a strategic and globally-minded leader.
  • Navigate complex group dynamics in modern business environments.
  • Build core leadership skills, including communication, emotional intelligence, and team building. 
  • Develop a personal leadership philosophy.
  • MGT 750 Leadership
  • MGT 780 Leadership and Organizational Health
  • MGT 781 Strategic Leadership and Team Building
  • MGT 782 Strategic Communication and Human Performance Support Systems

 

  • Make informed business decisions, analyze market behavior, and integrate economic insights into strategic management.
  • Gain expertise in commercial transactions, employment law, intellectual property, and cybersecurity, while preparing for CPA Exam requirements.
  • Develop skills in preparing, analyzing, and using financial statements to drive informed business decisions.
  • Harness data analytics to make evidence-based accounting and financial decisions.
  • MGT 709 Managerial Economics
  • MGT 710 Legal Environment and Commercial Transactions Law
  • MGT 711 Managerial Accounting
  • MGT 712 Managerial Finance
  • MGT 785 Forensic Accounting
  • MGT 786 International Accounting
  • MGT 789 Data Analysis for Decision Making - Finance and Accounting

  • Build expertise in personal and corporate investment strategies.
  • Focus on capital structure, dividend policy, working capital management and valuation.
  • Explore the financial tools today's entrepreneurs need to start, build, and eventually harvest a successful venture.
  • Leverage analytics for smarter organizational choices.
  • MGT 711 Managerial Accounting
  • MGT 712 Managerial Finance
  • MGT 763 Investment Analysis and Planning for Businesses and Individuals
  • MGT 773 Capital Structuring, Sustainability, and Entrepreneurial Finance
  • MGT 783 Advanced Topics in Corporate and Personal Financial
  • Management
    MGT 789 Data Analysis for Decision Making - Finance and Accounting (optional)

 

  • Understanding customer needs, motivations, and behaviors to build marketing strategies that create real value.
  • Develop cohesive marketing plans.
  • Translate research and strategy into compelling campaigns. 
  • Apply ethical reasoning and explore international considerations that impact modern marketing practices.
  • MGT 704 Marketing Management
  • MGT 747 The Advertising Industry in the 21st Century
  • MGT 748 Buyer Behavior and Marketing Research
  • MGT 749 Advanced Marketing Strategy and Planning

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Completed application with a $25 application fee.
  • A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and a minimum GPA of 2.75 (on a 4.00 scale). GPA in previous graduate level work, if applicable, will be considered as well.
  • Official transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate work. The undergraduate transcript must show the date the degree was conferred and the GPA for all degree-related coursework.
  • Students who wish to apply completed courses in a certificate program toward the MBA degree do not have to reapply. Instead, they need to declare their status as degree-seeking.
  • Admission on probationary status may be approved by the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
    •  To be eligible for admission, students will be required to write an essay to the Director of Graduate Business Programs explaining any special circumstances associated with prior GPA and how their current situation is different or has changed. The letter must also include a detailed success plan outlining goals for successful completion of coursework. The letter will be evaluated as part of the application process.
    • Students admitted on probation to the MBA program will be removed from probationary status after successful completion (earning a "B" or higher) of their first two classes.
  • Courses are taught on a year-round 8-week basis with a six-term schedule: Fall I, Fall II, Spring I, Spring II, Summer I, Summer II.
  • Two courses, MGT 714 Global Management and MGT 795 Strategic Management and Ethics, are summative courses. Students who earn a grade lower than "B" in either of these courses must repeat them.
  • All courses completed in these certificate programs can be applied toward completion of the MBA degree.
  • Students who intend to complete the MBA program by taking stackable certificates must complete the Business Administration certificate and one or more of the other certificates.

Why earn a graduate certificate from Saint Mary?

USM’s esteemed faculty will guide you through the career-focused curriculum and help you explore industry challenges.

  • USM's Online MBA has been nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report. When you join the Saint Mary family, you become part of a tradition of academic excellence.
  • We emphasize flexibility and convenience to help ensure your success. Saint Mary is one of the only MBA programs in the Kansas City area to allow seamless and unlimited transition between on-ground and online classes – at no additional cost to students.
  • Per the Kansas City Business Journal, USM MBA alumni have some of the highest salaries of any MBA grads in KC.

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University of Saint Mary
admiss@stmary.edu
913-682-5151

See the staff/faculty directory