Management Science Certificate

This lower and upper division certificate prepares students to enter managerial fields, such as banking and securities, that have a statistical and accounting concentration.

Certificate Requirements

Minimum 46 credits
Minimum grade of ‘C’ in courses applied to the certificate

Course Requirements

Core Curriculum (18 credits)

Complete the following:

MGMT 210 - The Practice of Management (3)
or MGMT 489 - Seminar on Management in Business (3)

or PBHL 497 - Health Planning and Administration (3) (Public Health, B.A. students)
ECON 101 - Principles of Microeconomics (3)
ECON 102 - Principles of Macroeconomics (3)
ECON 121 - Principles of Accounting I (3)
ECON 122 - Principles of Accounting II (3)
ENGL 391 - Advanced Exposition and Argumentation (3)
or ENGL 393 - Technical Communication (3)

Management Science Concentration (28 credits)

Complete the following 19 credits:

MGMT 360 - Business Law (3)
or MGMT 385 - Business Ethics and Society (3)

or PBHL 358 - Bioethics (3) (Public Health, B.A. students)
ECAC 329 - Cost Accounting (3)
ECAC 351 - Advanced Cost Accounting (3)
or PBHL 498 - Financial Management and Decision Support for Health Service Organizations (3) (Public Health, B.A. students)
ECON 311 - Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis (3)
ECON 374 - Financial Management (3)
STAT 350 - Statistics with Applications in the Biological Sciences (4)
or STAT 351 - Applied Statistics for Business and Economics (4)

or STAT 355 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers (4)

Quantitative Methods

Complete 3 credits from the following or an introductory CMSC or IS course as approved:

IS 325 - Introduction to Management Science (3)
ECON 320 - Quantitative Methods for Management (3)
MATH 381 - Linear Methods in Operations Research (3)

Advanced Business

Complete 6 credits from the following:

MGMT 410 - Operations and Supply Chain Management (3)
ECON 405 - Benefit-Cost Evaluation (3)
ECON 408 - Managerial Economics (3)
ECON 415 - Organizations, Incentives and Behavior: Theory and Policy (3)
ECON 417 - The Economics of Strategic Interaction (3)
ECON 421 - Introduction to Econometrics (3)
ECON 423 - Time Series and Forecasting (3)