Online Graduate Certificates
The Penn State Smeal Executive MBA provides unmatched flexibility and value by offering Executive MBA students the option to earn a specialized graduate certificate following graduation.
Programs are offered online in partnership with Penn State World Campus and are taught by the same faculty who teach in resident programs at Penn State University Park. Online offerings from Penn State and Smeal allow you to continue your full-time employment and advance in your career as you build your skills. Many graduate certificates provide a bridge to the completion of an additional master's degree from Smeal. Smeal EMBA students may choose one certificate and must complete within three years post graduation.
Accounting Foundations
Cultivate the skills to develop and interpret accounting systems that collect and organize data about business transactions and activities, measure performance, communicate business plans and outcomes, and support decision-making.
Business Analytics
Develop the quantitative and managerial skills for exploring and analyzing complex data sets to support data-driven business decisions.
Business Architecture
Align an organization’s strategic objectives with tactical enterprise-level projects and technology initiatives to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of the business itself.
Business Sustainability Strategy
Prepares you to develop a sustainability plan for any size or type of organization, from startup to global corporation.
Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Cultivate expertise in the techniques, strategies, and business fundamentals required to create, innovate, and sustain new products and services in a variety of industry domains.
Management Consulting
Achieves client goals and objectives by identifying and defining organizational challenges, transforming business models, restructuring their workforce and processes, and advising upon corporate growth and change.
Marketing Analytics
Delivers core marketing analytics knowledge needed to influence marketing strategy and decision-making in today’s data-driven business environment.
Negotiation and Influence
Designed to blend in-depth information about negotiations, power, and influence with hands-on, trial-and-error learning to help you develop strong negotiation skills.
Strategic Leadership
Provides the tools for experienced managers who seek to connect their organization with the outside world and set a strategic path in order to remain relevant and flourish in today’s dynamic marketplace.
Supply Chain Management
Smeal is a leader in supply chain education, ranked No. 1 by practitioners and academics. Build competence across the foundations of supply chain management to help manage and enhance the value of today’s complex supply chains.