Welcome to the Smeal College of Business at Penn State
PENN STATE SMEAL
Deepen your expertise, diversify your skills with a flexible online graduate certificate.
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Expand your potential with a specialized business graduate certificate from the internationally ranked Penn State Smeal College of Business. Take flexible, online courses to deepen or expand your knowledge in specialty areas while gaining credits toward a master's degree.
Specialty Graduate Certificates
Delivered Online by Penn State World Campus
BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
Help your organization successfully execute its business strategy and better align tactical resources and projects with strategic objectives. This program is ideal for a wide range of individuals, including business analysts or professionals in the IT industry who wish to move into a business strategy role. (9 credits)
BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
Learn to implement business practices that meet the present demands of your company and its stakeholders, while protecting the resources needed in the future. Obtain the skills needed to effectively assess opportunities and measure financial, environmental, and social returns. (9 credits)
NEGOTIATION & INFLUENCE
Advance your critical negotiation skills to help you identify and gain sources of power, and learn how to influence others with and without the use of power. Anyone who negotiates up or down within an organization, for resources, responsibilities, or recognition, can benefit from this program. (9 credits)
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Understand the lifecycle for a consulting engagement, apply research methods for solution generation, and develop actionable plans for implementing change. Professionals who wish to apply critical thinking and communication skills to solve complex problems are best suited for this program. (9 credits)
Accommodating Format
Our convenient format allows you to expand your knowledge in a specialty business area and apply new skills immediately while you continue to work full time.
ONLINE DELIVERY
Complete work asynchronously, on your own time
ONE YEAR
Can be completed in 12 months or less
CHOOSE YOUR START DATE
With multiple intakes, you decide when to begin
Gain Expertise Now. Earn a Degree Later.
At Penn State Smeal, we make it easy to customize a learning plan that meets your professional aspirations. Our specialty online graduate certificates are integrated as concentrations or electives in our degree programs, including the Penn State Online MBA, giving you the flexibility to extend your graduate certificate into a degree.
Ranked for Excellence
No.
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In Supply Chain Education
Professionals rank Penn State Smeal as the best for supply chain education
Gartner, Inc.No.
10
Online Graduate
Business Education
Penn State World Campus has been a leader in online education for 20 years
U.S. News & World ReportThe Penn State Smeal Experience
Our team will explain the many options and possible paths that Penn State Smeal offers and will help you craft the educational experience best suited to your interests and career goals. It all starts with a simple, but critical question: "What are your goals?"
Strength In Numbers
Join the Penn State family! As a Smeal graduate, you'll join one of the largest, most passionate alumni networks in the United States. With more than 700K Penn State graduates and 86K Smeal alumni and counting, this is a network you can leverage as a student and throughout your professional career.