Program: Business Fundamentals Certificate - Widener University

Apr 23, 2025

2025-2026 Graduate Catalog (Edited Version)

The Business Fundamentals Certificate is a 12-credit graduate certificate program that delivers a core set of skills essential to operate and manage any business. Students take four graduate courses that enable them to develop competencies in marketing, accounting and managerial decision making, strategic finance, and the design and management of business processes.

This certificate is ideal for technical professionals, clinicians, and individuals with non-business degrees who are looking to transition into managerial roles and assume greater responsibility for the overall performance of their units. Their technical skills may have landed them a coveted promotion. The Business Fundamentals Certificate will help them deliver business results. The certificate is made up of existing MBA courses and will serve as a pathway into the MBA.

Curriculum

BUS 635 - Marketing 3 Credit(s)
BUS 645 - Accounting and Managerial Decision Making 3 Credit(s)
BUS 655 - Strategic Financial Management 3 Credit(s)
BUS 665 - Managing Business Processes 3 Credit(s)

Total Credits: 12

MBA courses assume that students have an understanding of Excel and basic concepts in statistics, accounting, finance, organizational behavior and management, communication, critical thinking and case analysis. All students are advised to review these concepts by accessing a series of foundational knowledge modules that are available to them on demand and free of cost.

The program of study that appears here applies to students who were admitted for the summer session of this catalog year and later. Students admitted prior to that term should select the appropriate catalog year of their admission. Choose previous catalogs from the Home, Graduate, or Undergraduate Catalog Page at http://Catalog.widener.edu.