Certificate Programs

the LEHIGH MBA and the College of Business & Economics Graduate Program's Office offers a variety of graduate certificate programs designed to enhance the knowledge of students in key disciplines. Certificate options are designed for individuals or working professionals to enhance their knowledge in a specific professional or academic area. Graduate certificates may be pursued as executive education or for credit. Executive education students will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the program, but they will take the program for no credit and will not receive a Lehigh University transcript. Graduate certificates pursued for credit will have the credits recognized on a Lehigh University transcript and those credits may be applied toward a Lehigh University MBA at a later date upon full application and acceptance to the LEHIGH MBA program. Average completion time is 12 months.

Certificate programs are also designed to fit into a degree program. Most certificate programs require three additional credits beyond the concentration requirements and may have a structured curriculum.

Supply Chain Management
Corporate Entrepreneurship

Supply Chain Management

Increase profits, decreased lead times.
How does your supply chain create value for your company and your customers?

"The Lehigh experience provides me with tools in supply chain management that I am quickly applying to ongoing projects and within all of my teams. For example, we are improving our approach to supply from China using some of the concepts covered in my supply chain management courseowrk. The on-line capability, live interaction, and taped sessions are excellent. I am having more of my staff apply to the certificate program."

Digno Caballero
VP of Operations/Supply Chain Director
Bacardi U.S.A. (Florida)

The Lehigh University Supply Chain Management Certificate—Operations, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, and Service:

• Ideal for supply-side managers, buyers, logistical professionals, and professionals leading cross-functional teams
• Designed to overarch industries and organizations
• Broad focus to explore diverse issues from team leadership to activity-based costing
• In-depth study of value chains—internally and externally
• Taught by faculty with industry experience and supplemented by industry experts
• Hands-on environment
• Flexible: on-campus, online, or by satellite through our public and corporate partners
• Courses can be taken individually or as a complete certificate program in one (1) year
• Non-degree option is available—students will only receive a certificate; students taking the courses for credit will receive a certificate, and the credits will be noted on a transcript
• Credits earned may be transferred to the LEHIGH MBA program as elective credits upon full application and acceptance

"I completed my Certificate in Supply Chain Management online. Overall, I found the program to be well organized, informational, and well worth my time."

Jason Sostek, LCB
Supervisor and Team Leader
FedEx Trade Networks (Massachusetts)

Supply Chain Management Certificate Program Structure
Required courses:

• Strategic Supply Chain
• Transportation & Logistics Management

Six elective credits from the following:

• Negotiation
• E-Business Enterprise Applications
• Survey of Project Management
• Business-to-Business Marketing
• Agile Organizations & Manufacturing Systems
• International Supply Chain Management
• Product/Design Analysis
• Managerial Economics
• Field Project
• Option to select any alternate one-credit course as long as prior approval is obtained

For more information, please contact Corinn McBride, Director of Graduate Recruitment & Admissions, at business@lehigh.edu, or at 610-758-3418.

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Lehigh University offers a certificate in Corporate Entrepreneurship through VENTURESeries – a one-of-a-kind executive certificate program that focuses squarely on new venture creation.  Entrepreneurship comes alive through highly specialized, fast-moving, graduate-level courses.  Faculty are proven entrepreneurs and seasoned practitioners in their fields.  Intense classroom interaction drives the entrepreneurial spirit.  Unmatched in its diversity and precision, VENTURESeries empowers today’s entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship: The Right Way
 “… rapid fire questions and provocative discussions that challenge the status quo.”
  Thomas J. DiClemente, CEO, hField Technologies, Inc.

For more information on the required coursework
and electives, please visit: 
             www.lehighventureseries.com .