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Undergraduate Certificates & Badges

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

Certificates

Gain specialized knowledge and skills to show employers your specialization and areas of interest. UW–Madison offers over 70 certificates, including nine at WSB. 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 students
  • Declaration required: September 15 through October 15 only
  • 18 credits
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Certificate in Business Leadership

Gain the knowledge and build the essential skills needed to be the type of leader who can thrive in today’s global economy.

  • For business students
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 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 students
  • 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 students
  • 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 students
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 12 credits
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Accounting Certificate

Build basic accounting tools to complement the expertise from your major and boost your career-readiness with knowledge applicable across industries.

  • For business students
  • 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 students
  • 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 noncredit case competitions and student organizations.

  • Open to all undergraduate students
  • Open enrollment, declaration required
  • 13 credits
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Certificate in Product Management

Gain the knowledge and skills to be a collaborative and strategic product manager.

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

Badges

Explore interests and other business disciplines. Showcase the digital badge on your LinkedIn profile and résumé. Digital badges do not appear on your transcript.

Affordable Housing Badge

Develop applied skills in real estate, development, finance, and community engagement to improve access to affordable housing.

  • For all undergraduate students
  • Open enrollment
  • 6 credits, attend two events, pass final assessment

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

New Venture Creation Badge

Learn to evaluate, create, and grow a new venture. Entrepreneurs and innovators must develop these skills and learn research-based methodologies to succeed in dynamic and uncertain business environments.

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

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
  • 3 credits, attend applied learning event, essay

Sustainable Real Estate Badge

Develop real-world skills at the intersection of sustainability, real estate development, and policy. Understand the environmental and economic forces shaping our neighborhoods and cities.

  • For all undergraduate students
  • Open enrollment
  • 6 credits, attend three applied learning events