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Your Starter Pack for Speaking Fluent Business
The Business Foundations Certificate aims to equip students with business knowledge and essential skills for students without a background in business or who have relatively little or no business experience. This certificate will provide a foundation in accounting and the choice of two courses in economics, information systems and analytics, or marketing, tailored to enable students to thrive in business settings. The certificate is designed for high-performing Miami students, recent graduates, and mid-career professionals seeking to utilize their non-business specialities in a business environment.
Curriculum and Courses
This flexible, three-course certificate can be completed independently or as part of an MBA degree. After completing the certificate, if you decide to continue your business studies, completed certificate courses can count toward your MBA degree.
Students can choose to take 3 courses fully online, in person at our West Chester location, or a combination of both. Each course is 3 credit hours.
Required:
- ACC 611 Accounting for Managers
Select 2 from the following:
- ECO 616 Microeconomic Management for Managerial Decisions
- ISA 621 Enabling Technologies
- MKT 618 Marketing Management
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Learn more about the Business Foundations Graduate Certificate
A Degree That Holds Its Worth
World Class Companies
Graduate students from the Farmer School of Business are employed at world-class companies like Kroger, Procter & Gamble, Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson), General Electric, L3, and Liberty Mutual, just to name a few.
Business Foundations Learning Objectives
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This course explores how accounting information is used by managers to make internal business decisions, to create financial plans, and to evaluate actual performance relative to those plans. It also explores how managers analyze financial statements for internal management purposes.
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Focuses on microeconomic analysis of consumers, firms, and market organization. Topics may include analysis of antitrust and regulatory issues.
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Examines existing and emerging information technology (IT) within the organization. The focus of the course is the role IT plays in business processes, the underlying theoretical basis for innovation through IT, methodologies for successful IT innovation, and infrastructure technologies commonly employed and why.
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Focuses on business’s front lines; the value creation from which all economic activity derives. Address how sellers identify, manage, and meet customer needs and wants through concepts, heuristics, models, and frameworks that help stimulate and manage customer-centric organizations. Leverage a mix of current readings and case analyses to bring cutting-edge thinking and applications to life.
After completing my undergraduate degree and moving directly into the MBA, learning alongside peers with diverse professional backgrounds and experiences accelerated my development and broadened how I approached problems. It has genuinely reshaped and accelerated my career trajectory, which I credit to my exceptional professors, my peers, and the program.
Joshua Fett
As a design strategist, I’ve started to apply strategic thinking and business frameworks from class to my client work. It’s helped me better connect design decisions to business outcomes, which has been incredibly valuable.
Selena Gillespie
Admission Requirements and Overview
To apply for the Business Foundations Graduate Certificate, you’ll need:
- Resume
- List Two References
Current Miami Students
Current undergraduates can apply using the Undergraduate Permission Form.
Newly admitted Miami graduate students can apply using the Graduate Certificate Form.
External Candidates
If you are not a current Miami graduate student and are interested in a Certificate, submit an online graduate application. Select Graduate or Post-Baccalaureate Certificate on page 1, and pay the $20 application fee.
Admission and Funding
This is Where Your Journey to Miami University Begins
Explore what it means to be a graduate student at Miami University, where students prepare to go anywhere and everywhere. We’ll be here to help every step of the way as you prepare for college admission, enrollment, and success.
Contact Us
Graduate Admission
513-216-2237
[email protected]
Kristine Reid, Associate Director of Graduate Programs
Farmer School of Business
7847 VOA Park Drive
West Chester, OH 45069
513-895-8876
[email protected]
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