What You'll Learn
The Corporate Sustainability and Innovation Graduate Certificate provides you with the tools you need to align environmental goals with operational and financial performance. Through the certificate, you’ll learn to:
- Apply corporate sustainability principles — including carbon accounting, cost reduction, and operational efficiency — to achieve specific objectives.
- Develop management systems and performance frameworks for sustainability practices for use in a variety of organizations.
- Approach financial planning through the lens of sustainability and with a deeper knowledge of financial analysis, financing, valuation, risk assessment, and sustainable investments.
- Effectively navigate and lead through significant organizational change.
Courses
For the Corporate Sustainability and Innovation Graduate Certificate, you’ll take four courses:
Core Courses
Choose at least two courses. You may select up to four.
Elective Courses
You may select up to two electives, but elective courses are not required.
Searching and Registering for Courses
Available course options vary by term. You can find courses by course group and term — fall, spring, or summer — in the certificate course search within DCE Course Search & Registration platform.
Our Community at a Glance
Whether you aim to shape global policies or lead local green initiatives, our programs will equip you with the skills and experience to succeed in a sustainability career.
Download: Corporate Sustainability and Innovation Graduate Certificate Fact Sheet
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35
Average Age
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80%
Working Full Time
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14%
Students Outside the U.S.
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1.5 years
Average Time to Complete
Earning Your Certificate
Most of our certificates can be completed online and no formal application process is required to pursue a certificate.
To meet the requirements for the certificate, you must:
- Complete the four certificate courses for graduate credit.
- Earn at least a B grade in each course.
- Complete the courses within three years.
Learn more about pursuing a certificate and the process of requesting your certificate.
Build a Stackable Credential Pathway
Stackable credential pathways allow you to earn multiple credentials by completing courses that meet overlapping requirements. In the short term, you can earn a micro or graduate certificate. Once completed, those courses may count toward a master’s degree.
Stackable pathway options:
You may stack one of the following microcertificates into the Corporate Sustainability and Innovation Graduate Certificate:
- Circular Economics Microcertificate
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) Accounting Microcertificate
- Life Cycle Assessment Microcertificate
The Corporate Sustainability and Innovation Graduate Certificate can stack into either:
Stackable pathways offer an efficient, cost-effective way to earn short-term credentials to help fill immediate skill gaps and acquire specialized knowledge while building a foundation for long-term success that showcases your expertise in the field.
Learn how to plan a stackable credential pathway.
I would never have been able to connect the dots of human activity, global environmental change, and the impact on equality and equity concretely otherwise without my time in Cambridge. Through my education, I learned how to deal with the challenges of working in the real world.
Cost
Affordability is core to our mission. When compared to our continuing education peers, it’s a fraction of the cost.
| Our Tuition (2025–26 rate) | $3,440 per course |
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| Average Tuition of Peer Institutions | $4,630 per course |
| Average Total Cost | $13,760 |
