Graduate Certificates

Graduate Certificates

The Graduate School of Business offers three non-degree programs leading to graduate certificates: Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Systems, and Healthcare Business Analytics.

Enterprise Systems Graduate Certificates


Business Analytics
Graduate Certificate

Business Analytics is a field within business and IT that focuses on finding value in the massive amounts of data collected in modern organizations, improving the quality of making processes, and increasing the speed at which modern organizations can make decisions.

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Enterprise Resource Planning
Graduate Certificate

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems are used by almost all Fortune 500 companies, and most of those companies use SAP. As a member of the SAP University Alliance, the Walton College provides students with hands-on experience using ERP software and strategies.

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Blockchain Enterprise Systems
Graduate Certificate

Blockchain technologies are trusted distributed ledger technologies that traditionally served as the foundational architecture underlying cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin, Ether, LiteCoin, etc.) and now as distributed applications and databases. Blockchains are currently used by many companies for applications ranging from strategic management of day-to-day operations to customer insights to retail analytics to supply chain technology in an effort to develop and maintain a competitive edge. 

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Cybersecurity and Data
Graduate Certificate

This track is open to individuals with backgrounds in any discipline and is designed to provide business and non-business graduate students a foundation to help organizations assess and detect threats while securing and protecting data and data-driven systems against a myriad of threats such as malicious software, hacking, insider threats, and other cybercrimes.

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Healthcare Business Analytics
Graduate Certificate

The Healthcare Business Analytics Graduate Certificate is a part-time credential open to individuals with backgrounds in any discipline.

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Entrepreneurship
Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship is designed to give graduate students a foundation in the core aspects of entrepreneurship they will need to start successful enterprises, to create and promote new products or service offerings in existing organizations, or to engage in social entrepreneurship.

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Saturday Class Dates

Spring
2024		 Summer
2024		 Fall
2024		 Spring
2025		 Summer
2025 – EMBA, MSPI, SCMT		 Summer
2025 – MIS, MABA, MHCBA
January
20		 May
18		 August
24		 January
18		 May
17		 May
31
February
17		 June
15		 September
21		 February
15		 June
7		 June
14
March
9		 July
6		 October
26		 March
8		 June
28		 June
28
April
6		 July
20
(ISYS Only)		 November
9		 April
5		 July
26		 July
26
April
27		 July
27
(EMBA and MS SCMT Only)		 December
7		 April
26		    

* Students admitted to the professional programs in the Walton College are required to attend a multi-day orientation prior to the start of scheduled courses. Dates to be determined. Please contact gsb@walton.uark.edu for more information.

 

The MIS program, is offered as part-time or full-time programs. The full-time program can be completed in one year, and the part-time program can be completed in less than two years.

The Healthcare Business Analytics program is a part-time program that can be completed in less than two years.

The Master of Applied Business Analytics program is offered as part-time or full-time programs. The full-time program can be completed in one year, and the part-time program can be completed in less than two years.