Undergraduate Certificates & Badges

Add business skills to bolster your career and get a competitive advantage in the job market.

Certificates

Choose from eight business certificates that dive into in-demand disciplines. You will gain specialized knowledge and skills employers look for. Once completed, display the certificate on your LinkedIn profile and résumé. Certificates appear on your transcript.

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Certificate in Business

Expand your knowledge with a foundational understanding of business. Coursework can be applied to a wide range of majors and career paths.

  • For nonbusiness majors
  • Selective admission process, application required
  • 6 courses, 18 credits
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Summer Certificate in Business Fundamentals

Gain a basic business education to complement your nonbusiness major. The certificate is designed to be completed over multiple summer terms.

  • For nonbusiness majors
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 4 courses, 12 credits
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Entrepreneurship Certificate

Whether you want to launch a business, work for a venture, or pilot a new initiative in an existing organization, develop your entrepreneurship skills with this certificate.

  • For nonbusiness majors
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 15 credits
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Risk Management & Insurance Certificate

Develop expertise in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across industries and emerge well equipped to navigate today’s risk landscape complexities.

  • For nonbusiness majors
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 12 credits
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Accounting Fundamentals Certificate

Gain the accounting knowledge and skills required of those pursuing wealth management, financial planning, or corporate finance careers.

  • For nonbusiness majors
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 4 courses, 12 credits
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Accounting Certificate

Build basic accounting tools to complement the expertise from your major. You have the option to continue your accounting education in the School’s graduate-level MAcc program.

  • For business majors
  • 12 credits
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International Business Certificate

Develop cross-cultural awareness and skills and acquire new perspectives on business, strategy and consumerism. Study abroad for a semester through one of UW-Madison’s study abroad programs.

  • For business majors
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 13 credits
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Consulting Certificate

Learn the critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed in the consulting field. Enhance your certificate experience by participating in non-credit case competitions and student organizations.

  • Open to all undergraduate students
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 13 credits

Badges

Explore interests and business disciplines that are important to you through coursework and applied learning opportunities. Once completed, showcase the digital badge on your LinkedIn profile and résumé. Digital badges do not appear on your transcript.

Marketing Analytics & Insights Badge

Gain a basic understanding of how to analyze metrics and data using analytical methods to solve business challenges. Be prepared to guide informed and proactive decision-making in business planning, resource allocations, and marketing.

  • For undergraduate students
  • Open enrollment
  • 7 credits, software certification

Sales & Business Development Badge

Develop the skills needed to succeed in sales and business development and learn the art of storytelling and persuasion to secure buy-in for your ideas.

  • For undergraduate students
  • Open enrollment
  • 6 credits, attend approved applied learning event

Supply Chain Management Exploration Badge

Learn to identify and apply the primary functions of supply chain management to solve an organization’s challenges and develop leadership and communication skills to communicate solutions.

  • For nonbusiness students
  • Open enrollment
  • 13 credits, attend approved applied learning event, essay

Looking for Business Badger Badges? Those leadership-oriented badges for business students are separate.