Skill-Based Courses Designed to Jump Start Your Career
Coupled with your technical degree, the Farmer School of Business MBA certificate program jump-starts your career and prepares you for making a difference in the fast-paced, interconnected business world and adapting quickly to whatever the 21st-century business landscape demands. Miami’s Farmer School of Business MBA program incorporated research identifying the most important skills needed by today’s leading global employers and those most requested by potential students to evolve its program. Earn a certificate towards the Miami MBA program!
Curriculum and Courses
When you combine your technical background with the Farmer School of Business MBA certificate, you’re setting yourself up for a fast-track career. It’s designed to help you stand out, make an impact, and stay ahead in today’s ever-changing business world.
- ACC 611 – Accounting for Managers
- BUS 647 – Risk Management
- FIN 625 – Managerial Finance
- FIN/BUS 665 – Mergers and Acquisitions*
*Prerequisite FIN 625
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ACC 611 – Accounting for Managers
- 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.
BUS 647 – Risk Management
- Marketing decisions have always been rooted in data. However, over the past decade, more and more data has become available to marketers. This course details the analysis measures and methods used by leading marketers to make more precise marketing decisions in the 21st century.
FIN 625 – Managerial Finance
- The field of finance is very broad, covering investment concepts, corporate financial policy, security markets, banking (and other intermediaries), the role of government and the international sector, real estate and personal finance. Together these components make up the “financial system” and in this course, we examine a few parts of the financial system. This will be taught as a “skills” course most of which is likely to be used by a non-finance corporate manager or a reasonably sophisticated individual investor. Specifically, we will look at financial statements, time value of money, financial risk, cost of capital, project financial evaluation, and capital budgeting.
FIN/BUS 665 – Mergers and Acquisitions
- Mergers and acquisitions are typically large and risky investment decisions that confront many financial managers. This course provides an in-depth examination of the complexities encountered in corporate restructuring, with a primary focus on corporate change of control. Topics covered include the M&A process, participants, due diligence, deal structuring, financing, and integration. Additional restructuring events covered include spinoffs, carveouts, business alliances, and bankruptcy.
- *Prerequisite FIN 625
Certificate Breakdown
- 12 Month Program Duration
- 9 Credit Hours
- Application Dates: Aug. 1, Jan. 1, or April 1
- Online Program Delivery
Admission and Program Info
How Does it Work?
Offered fully online, Miami’s MBA Certficiate is a flexible three-course program you can complete alongside your undergraduate degree and earn a certificate. You will choose 3 courses.
Once you have completed 3 courses as an undergraduate you will receive your certificate. If you decide to continue your business education once in the workforce, your coursework can count toward your MBA.
Note, if you want to take FIN 665 you must take FIN 625 first.
How Do I Apply?
Applying is easy. If you have Junior or Senior standing, have taken your major math requirements, and a GPA of 3.00 or greater as a Miami University undergraduate student, you may request permission to enroll in 500 or 600-level graduate courses.
Schedule and advising session or contact fsbgrad@Miamioh.edu, 513-895-8876
Once you have spoken with an advisor, submit a “Permission for Undergraduate Students to Enroll in Graduate Courses” form.
Choose “Other” option when selecting the Graduate Certificate, and list Financial Acumen Certificate. Once approved, fill out and submit the graduate certificate application.
How Do I Continue Post Graduation?
Once you are admitted and enrolled within 5 years of taking the certificate courses and earned a “B” or above you can transfer up to 12 credit hours towards the required 36 credit hours for the MBA program.
How do I resume my MBA after entering the workforce?
Submit an Application along with the following:
- Resume
- List Recommender
- Undergraduate Transcripts
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Contact Us
Kristine Reid, Associate Director
FSB Graduate Programs
7847 VOA Park Drive
West Chester, OH
513-895-8876
reidkm@Miamioh.edu