About our certificate programs
The graduate certificates in business at Seattle Pacific University provide opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to excel as a professional in each certificate field.
Seattle Pacific’s School of Business, Government, and Economics is committed to providing you with an applied, experiential, and collaborative learning environment in which business and Christian faith, ethics, and character are integrated.
Certificates will be awarded upon completion of each certificate’s courses at SPU with at least a “B” in each course. The following graduate certificates are available.
Admission requirements
Generally, you must have a bachelor's degree with at least a 3.0 GPA in your undergraduate studies and prior work experience. (Admission is available for international students who plan to learn while remaining in their home country. It is not available for students seeking to attend in the U.S. on an F-1 visa.)
Applicants must submit the following:
- Online application and $50 application processing fee.
- Current résumé as evidence of a substantive work experience. You will need at least one year, continuous full-time, post-bachelor’s degree experience at the time of application. More is preferred. This is a significant factor in the admission decision process. Applicants with less than one year of post-baccalaureate professional work experience, but who have a 3.5 GPA are eligible.
- Official transcript(s) from colleges or universities attended. Include the transcript from the institution that granted your bachelor’s degree with the posted degree appearing on the transcript. Also send Official transcript(s) for all institutions attended following your undergraduate degree, as well as any other schools where you earned credits that may be used to request waivers of foundations prerequisite courses.
Curriculum
Certificate students may apply certificate coursework toward a business graduate degree. (All admission requirements must be satisfied.)
The certificates relate to the school's degree programs as follows:
| CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS |
CORRESPONDING MASTER'S DEGREES
|
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Creating and Distributing Value
Understanding Business Contexts
|
MBA (foundations prerequisites)
MA-HR (foundations prerequisites)
|
Responsible Leadership
|
MBA
MA-HR
MS-Information Systems
MS-Data Analytics in Business
|
| Analytical Skills |
MBA |
| Business Systems & Strategy |
MBA |
| Impact Enterprise |
MBA (Impact Enterprise) |
| Organizational Management |
MBA (Organizational Management) |
Data Analytics Basics
Data Analytics Programming
|
MS-Data Analytics in Business
MS-Information Systems (Data Analytics)
MBA (Data Analytics) |
| HR |
MA-HR
MBA (HR)
|
| Information Systems |
MS-Information Systems
MBA (IS)
|
| Cybersecurity |
MS-Information Systems (Cybersecurity)
MBA (Cybersecurity) |