Certificate In Business

Mays Business School offers a Certificate in Business to non-business graduate students at Texas A&M University. This certificate provides a general overview of the four major functional areas of business through a set of courses designed for non-business students.

Requirements

To complete the Certificate in Business you must successfully complete the following 4 courses (12 credit hours). These courses do not have business course prerequisites:

• Accounting 640
• Finance 635 (Prerequisite ACCT 640)
• Management 655
• Marketing 621

If you have completed the undergraduate versions of any or all of these courses (business minor courses) then you must use a substitute for the course(s). The recommended substitutions are:

FOR	You May Substitute:
ACCT 640	ACCT 641, 642
FINC 635	FINC 629, 632, 642, 645
MGMT 655	MGMT 630
MKTG 621	MKTG 650, 656

NOTE: Students beginning coursework for the certificate in or after the fall 2003 semester are required to earn a cumulative grade point of 3.0 or better in these courses.

Completing the Certificate

In some cases, graduate programs have additional requirements for completing the Business Certificate. For example, the Certificate in International Petroleum Management requires the above business courses as well as two or three elective courses.

When you have successfully completed the required courses, notify Mays' Master's Program at 979.845.3883 and a certificate will be issued.