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College of Management and Human Potential: Certificates:
Post-Doctoral Bridge to Management Certificate

The Post-Doctoral Bridge to Management Certificate program is designed to provide students who hold a doctoral degree in management or a non-management field with core knowledge in a management discipline outside their previous doctoral studies. Students explore areas such as finance, human resources and organizational behavior, leadership strategy, innovation and organizational design, and information systems. This certificate program emphasizes management aspects in a global context and explores relevant trends students can apply in settings that include postsecondary education, research, and consulting.

With the exception of MGMT 8003M, any courses used toward the completion of a doctoral program cannot be applied toward the completion of the post-doctoral bridge certificate.

Certificate Requirements

  • Hold a recognized terminal degree in a business or non-business field
  • 20 total quarter credit hours
  • Foundation course (5 credits)
  • Focus courses (15 credits)

Curriculum

Foundation Course (5 credits)

  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.

Focus Courses (15 credits)

 Choose from one of the following three-course focus sequences*:

Leadership and Organizational Strategy

  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.

Information Systems Management

  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.

21st Century Finance

  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.

Human Resource Management

  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.

Organizational Design and Innovation

  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.

Course Sequence

The recommended course sequence is as follows:

Quarter Course Credits
Quarter 1

MGMT 8003M - Gateway to Doctoral Management Studies

5 credits
Quarter 2+ Focus Courses* 15 credits