Graduate Certificates
Graduate Certificates
Marshall Graduate Certificates advance students’ knowledge about a specific area of interest. Knowledge gained from completing a graduate certificate can support career performance and advancement. As employers often seek candidates with specialized skills, certificates can enhance a resume and help the individual stand out in a competitive job market.
Note Graduate Certificates are only available to current students enrolled in a Masters or Doctoral degree at USC.
Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics
Students gain the skills to analyze large and unstructured data sets to make business decisions based on data.
Graduate Certificate in Financial Analysis and Valuation
The theories and practice of financial accounting, financial analysis, valuation, credit analysis, and financial instruments to better understand and develop strategic financial decisions.
Graduate Certificate in Marketing
Designed for individuals who want to develop the analytical and technical skills needed to work with today’s complex marketing issues in the support of effective business decision-making.
Graduate Certificate in Optimization and Supply Chain Management
In partnership with the Viterbi School of Engineering, this program offers opportunities to understand the rapidly growing uses of technology and data analysis to improve the management of global supply chains.
Graduate Certificate in Product Management
Ideal for students pursuing product careers in technology, healthcare, finance, media, and more, the certificate is a strong complement to any graduate degree and provides a recognized credential in this high-growth field.
Graduate Certificate in Risk Management
Enhancing any graduate degree, the certificate equips students with the skills and tools to identify, assess, control, and transfer the risks of an increasingly complex and interconnected business environment.
The Graduate Certificate in Risk Management provides students skills that are useful in facing the challenges of an increasingly complex and interconnected business environment, an environment that has proven the past few years and will likely continue to prove risk-accretive. For organizations of all types, the ability to manage risks effectively is existential. Through professors with years of real-world experience, frequent industry guest speakers, and practical application, students will learn how to identify, assess, control, transfer, monitor, report, and govern the most significant risks.
Successful completion of the program is acknowledged by a certificate awarded by the university.
Graduate Certificate in Strategy and Management Consulting
Provides students with the tools, concepts and frameworks that of strategy development and management consulting to improve business performance.
Graduate Certificate in Sustainability and Business
Prepares students to help shape solutions to social and environmental sustainability challenges, both from within and from outside the business sector.
Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization
Students participate in the entire spectrum of the commercialization process, from invention to venture funding, while potentially becoming stakeholders in a new technology venture.
USC GRADUATE CERTIFICATES
John H. Mitchell Graduate Certificate in the Business of Entertainment
The John H. Mitchell Graduate Certificate in the Business of Entertainment was created for aspiring entertainment entrepreneurs, creative executives, and producers, the certificate allows students to gain specialized knowledge in marketing, finance, representation, and the business interests of agents and managers.
Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development
The Certificate in Real Estate Development provides an extensive overview of current development processes, modeling, and specific training in market analysis used to evaluate the potential of a real estate endeavor. The program is designed to give current USC graduate students in related fields a more comprehensive perspective on public policy issues in the context of real estate.
