Undergraduate Certificates
Add Business Skills to Bolster Your Career
Complement your undergraduate studies with a certificate in business. Grow practical skills to apply in your first job, a future management role, or as an entrepreneur. Get a competitive advantage in the job market and add business experience to your résumé.
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
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
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
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
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
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