Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management

Boston University

Graduate Certificate Programs

Administrative Sciences graduate certificate programs provide an ideal way to update or obtain new skills in specific business areas; pursue advanced business study without committing to a degree program; or supplement a current graduate degree program.

Admissions Information

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Applied Business Analytics (on campus and online)

The Graduate Certificate in Applied Business Analytics provides comprehensive coverage of data analytics concepts, techniques, and state-of-the-art tools used in the process of data-driven business decisionmaking. Students have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with a variety of analytical models and decision-support tools and to apply them to interlinked data-inputs and large data sets in the areas of marketing, operations, product and technology innovations, financial services, human resources management, and others. The curriculum covers advanced software tools and functions such as predictive modeling, text and data mining, visual analytics, simulations, and OLAP tables. Graduates of the program will be able to analyze data-driven business processes, select appropriate analytical methods to monitor and identify performance issues, and propose optimal data-based solutions.

Learning Outcomes

The knowledge and skills necessary to better utilize available information in operational, tactical, and strategic decisionmaking in organizations.

Experience with various powerful emerging technologies and techniques for increasing the value of both in-house and third-party data sets.

An understanding of how organizations are using interlinked data inputs, analytics models, and decision-support tools to better understand their operations, customers, and markets.

Expertise in web analytics and metrics, and the ability to procure and process unstructured text, and delve into hidden patterns within data sets.

The ability to facilitate knowledge discovery using data mining and visualization techniques over vast amounts of data.

Experience with building and assessing machine learning models.

Prerequisites

Applicants to the graduate certificate program are required to have a bachelor's degree from a fully accredited institution. As a prerequisite to the course MET AD 571 Business Analytics Foundations, students are required to complete MET AD 100 Pre-Analytics Laboratory (online) or possess equivalent knowledge. MET AD 571 is a prerequisite for MET AD 616, MET AD 654, MET AD 688, and MET AD 699.

Required Curriculum (four courses/16 units)

MET AD 571 Business Analytics Foundations

Plus three courses from the following:

MET AD 616 Enterprise Risk Analytics

MET AD 654 Marketing Analytics

MET AD 688 Web Analytics for Business

MET AD 699 Data Mining for Business Analytics

Corporate Finance (on campus and online)

Available online or on campus, the Graduate Certificate in Corporate Finance at Boston University's Metropolitan College is designed for students and/or professionals currently working in, or seeking a career in, the corporate finance field. The curriculum provides a concise set of essential skills for understanding modern corporations, ensuring that students receive a strong foundation in corporate financial theory and acquire the quantitative skills needed to understand the process behind financial decisionmaking by the corporations. After completing the certificate, students will be prepared for positions in areas such as budgeting, project evaluation, international financing, and short-term investing of corporate funds.