What You'll Learn
The Strategic Management Graduate Certificate equips you with the expertise needed to align goals, navigate competitive markets, and drive organizational success. Whether you’re advancing into a leadership role or honing your strategic thinking, you’ll build skills to drive organizational success across industries and global markets.
Through the five-course certificate, you’ll learn how to:
- Analyze an environment’s social, political, technological, economic, and global factors.
- Evaluate industry and market structure.
- Assess organizational strengths and weaknesses.
- Apply essential business management principles, such as corporate responsibility and ethics, organizational efficiency, and decision-making frameworks for competing strategic priorities.
- Leverage knowledge in corporate sustainability strategy, human resource management, strategic resource allocation, crisis management, and marketing management.
Courses
The Strategic Management Graduate Certificate requires five courses from the following course groups:
- 1 economics, accounting, or finance course
- 1 marketing course
- 1 organizational behavior course
- 1 elective course
- 1 strategy course (taken as your final certificate course)
Searching and Registering for Courses
Available course options vary by term. You can browse options for fall, spring, or summer in the certificate course search within the DCE Course Search & Registration platform.
Our Community at a Glance
It may seem daunting to tackle schoolwork while maintaining a job, but you won’t be alone. You’ll bring challenges you face at work or in your community into the classroom to consult with faculty and peers on new, innovative solutions. Test a fresh concept or framework in the workplace and see immediate results.
Download: Strategic Management Graduate Certificate Fact Sheet
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36
Average Age
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83%
Working Full Time
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29%
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 five 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.
Stack Your Certificate Into a Degree
Stackable credential pathways allow you to earn multiple credentials by completing courses that meet overlapping requirements. In the short term, you can earn your management certificate. Once completed, those four courses may put you a third of the way toward earning a master’s degree in management.
This stackable pathway offers 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.
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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 | $5,476 per course |
| Average Total Cost | $17,200 |
