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Business, Leadership, and Management
In today's competitive business climate, it's critical that you have up-to-date tools and knowledge to successfully meet challenges and improve your performance. Training and education to build leadership capabilities and enhance employee performance are key factors to success for aspiring managers, business owners, executives, recent graduates, and working professionals looking for a career change.
Our graduate programs, certificates, and professional development classes and workshops can help you maintain your competitive edge. Start building skills to enhance marketability with prospective employers today. Explore your options:
Graduate Degrees
When you earn your graduate degree online or at an off-campus learning center, you learn the same content from the same faculty who teach on-campus. You earn an accredited degree and your Colorado State University diploma has no indication of how you took your courses.
- Executive MBA - Master of Business Administration (Denver)
Emerging business leaders learn practical, innovative business solutions. - MBA – Master of Business Administration (Distance)
Develop management skills with an emphasis on leadership, entrepreneurship, and global business. - Merchandising – Master of Science (Online)
Learn fundamental merchandising concepts - offered through the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance.
Credit Certificates
Certificates allow you to earn University credit and gain a credential without the full commitment of a degree program. Certificate programs are shorter, focus on the core subject matter, and do not require admission.
Undergraduate
- Core Business Competencies Certificate (Online)
Build your skills in accounting, finance, legal and ethical issues, management, and marketing.
Graduate
- Finance Certificate (Online)
Advance your knowledge of corporate finance, international finance, and credit markets. - Merchandising Certificate (Online)
Prepare for managerial roles in merchandising - offered through the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance.
Project Management Programs
We offer project management training for all levels of project managers.
Professional Development Programs
Our professional development programs provide hands-on training from industry experts who will help you develop real-world skills for immediate, on-the-job application.
- Applied Business Science Certificate (Online)
Through Leadership BaseSkills© training, learn how to manage demands of customers, suppliers, and competitors. - Business Professional Development & Leadership (Loveland)
Build your professional skills to meet today's business challenges with these leadership and professional development courses. - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate (Denver)
Run your organization at optimum efficiency with this cutting-edge, process-improvement program. - Leadership Training (Brighton)
Use skill-building exercises to connect learning with actual work situations.
Courses
Credit Courses
Noncredit Courses
Why CSU?
- » CSU is a Carnegie Community Engagement University.
- » CSU was recently named as one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News.
- » In many of our programs, you are taught by Colorado State's renowned College of Business faculty.
- » Noncredit professional development programs are taught by industry leaders who share a wealth of experience from the business world.
- » When you earn your MBA through Continuing Education, you earn a degree that is accredited by AACSB International, the premier international accrediting agency for schools and colleges of business.
- » Mary Ann Littrell, Design and Merchandising Department Head, received the Malone Award for her international education efforts.
- » The Colorado State University College of Business is ranked in the top ten by the Princeton Review as being the best administered MBA program in the nation.
- » Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine ranked the Distance MBA one of the best in the country.
