Graduate Business Certificate Programs

Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics

The Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics is designed to enable students to acquire critical data science and analytics skills and apply these to solve traditional and new problems in their respective domains without having to enroll in a full Masters degree program.

Participants complete a total of 15 graduate credit hours comprised of four required courses and one elective course.

Required Coursework:

BSTAT 5325 - Advanced Methods for Analytics
INSY 5336 - Python Programming
INSY 5339 - Principles of Business Data Mining
INSY 5377 - Web and Social Analytics

One elective from the following list:

INSY 5337 - Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
INSY 5378 - Data Science: A Programming Approach
ECON 5337 - Business & Economic Forecasting
FINA 5376 - Financial Data Analytics
MANA 5329 - HR Metrics and Analytics
MARK 5337 - Marketing Analytics and Information Management

Course credit earned through the certificate may be used to meet course requirements for the MS Business Analytics if the student is accepted into the MSBA program. All courses must be completed at UTA and prerequisites may be required.

For further inquiry, please contact:
Dr. Santoso Budiman
Program Coordinator/Academic Advisor

Professional Development Certificate Program

Candidates for executive positions are encouraged to earn the executive development certificate by completing 4-7 courses in two or more areas.

The Graduate Advanced Studies Certificate Program offered by the College of Business is a business post-master's level non-degree program of study designed to meet the changing educational needs of managers, entrepreneurs, or executives. This is an excellent way to update an MBA or other graduate-level business degree, and to prepare for future management or executive-level positions. Candidates for this certificate program may register for a wide variety of excellent courses conveniently offered on weekday evenings and/or Saturdays. While some candidates may complete their courses in as little as two semesters, others may spread their courses over a 3-year maximum time period.

This broad array of classes is designed to sharpen the candidate's strategic awareness in their industry of choice. Managers or functional specialists completing 4-7 courses in one area of study may be awarded a professional development certificate for that area.

Advanced studies are available in the following areas:

Accounting
Economics
Human Resources
Finance
Health Care Administration
Information Systems
International Business
Management
Management Science
Marketing
Production and Operations Management
Real Estate

For further inquiry, please contact:
Kristin Brooks
Program Coordinator / Academic Advisor

Graduate Certificate in Health Care

The program in Health Care Administration is designed to provide graduate students an integrated, contemporary, and multidisciplinary education. Diverse topics are included in the curriculum, research and residences to provide:

An understanding of the modern health industry
Knowledge, skills and abilities to assume administrative roles in various organizations in the health industry
Opportunities to develop leadership skills
Interactions with diverse specialists in the health industry to evaluate and resolve administrative problems

For further inquiry, please contact:
Demetria Wilhite
Program Coordinator / Academic Advisor

Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development

The Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development is designed to provide qualified real estate professionals advanced instruction in real estate development

In keeping with the mission of The University of Texas at Arlington to provide lifelong learning opportunities, the Department of Finance and Real Estate now offers a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development. The Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development is designed to provide qualified real estate professionals advanced instruction in real estate development and allow them to further their professional development. This post-baccalaureate Certificate provides an educational opportunity that is narrower in scope, and shorter in duration, than graduate degree programs. It is ideal for people transitioning from one sector of real estate into real estate development, or those in the process of satisfying education requirements for various professional real estate licenses.

For further inquiry, please contact:
Dr. Sriram Villupuram
Program Coordinator / Academic Advisor

Graduate Certificate in Taxation

The Tax Certificate program is designed to serve degreed professionals who wish to update or add to their knowledge of taxation.

The Tax Certificate program serves degreed professionals who wish to update or add to their knowledge of taxation. Participants complete four graduate level taxation courses of their choosing.

ACCT. 5339 - Tax Planning and Research
ACCT. 5341 - Tax Problems of Partnerships and Partners
ACCT. 5342 - Tax Problems of Corporations and Shareholders
ACCT. 5345 - State and Local Tax
ACCT. 5346 - Tax Practice and Procedure
ACCT. 5347 - Federal Taxation of Estates and Gifts
ACCT 5372 - Taxation and Regulation of International Transactions

Each of the above courses has as a prerequisite ACCT 5314 or equivalent (Principles of Federal Income Tax). ACCT 5339 (Tax Planning and Research) is a required course for all other taxation courses and must be taken before any other tax course may be taken. ACCT 5314 (Individual Income Taxation or its Graduate/Undergraduate equivalent) is the prerequisite for ACCT 5339. Student who have not completed an individual income tax course may take ACCT 5314 in addition to the other four taxation courses.

All courses are offered in the evenings (typically two in the Fall, two in the Spring, and two in the Summer) and four courses can be completed in a year or less. Participants receive a certificate upon satisfactory completion of the program.

For further inquiry, please contact:
Dr. Cherie Henderson
Program Coordinator / Academic Advisor

Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship has been cited as the primary driver of economic growth in the United States and abroad.

After completion of three courses, you’ll have the skills to identify innovations and market opportunities, write a business plan, obtain funding and launch your own company.

With UT Arlington’s customizable cross-college entrepreneurship certificate program, you’ll learn the business acumen needed to launch a start-up company of your own. Students enrolled in this certificate program begin by completing a MANA 5339 – Entrepreneurship course followed by two additional courses from across campus, based on your interests—including art, engineering, business and urban planning.

Graduate and undergraduate certificates are offered for enrolled UTA students as well as for non-degree seeking students wanting a standalone certificate.

Learn how to identify market needs and develop products or services to fill that need.
Learn how to construct a business plan and practice “pitching” for funding.
Learn of various types of funding available and other support that the entrepreneurial ecosystem provides for startups, including incubators and accelerators.
Learn the management, leadership and team-building skills anyone who heads their own company needs to understand.

For further inquiry, please contact:
Kristin Brooks
Program Coordinator / Academic Advisor