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Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership Certificate
At a Glance
Explore processes that lead to innovative ideas, products, and services. Challenge the status quo and find new ways to deliver value. In this program, you’ll learn how to think more strategically, gain new insights related to how people and organizations work, and develop managerial skills that enable you to lead others in change initiatives.
Program Director: Stephen Tomkiel, gradbusiness@tcnj.edu
Duration
- part time: 9 months
Availability
- hybrid*
Practicum
- required
5
- courses
15
- credits
$1,356.56
- per credit
Who Should Pursue This Program?
This certificate is ideal if you want to both explore these three critical components of management and learn how to apply them in business settings to drive change.
Careers
Designed to create leaders of change, this certificate prepares graduates to work in industries including government, higher education, commercial banking, software development, biotech, investment, and human resources.
Application Requirements
For your application to be considered complete, you must submit the online application as well as all supplemental documents.
Recommended Application Deadlines
We consider applications on a space-available basis. You can apply up to and including the first day of the semester.
Curriculum
The Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership Certificate is designed to create leaders of change. Organizations survive and prosper by challenging the status quo and by finding new ways to deliver value. This certificate explores organizational and individual processes that lead to innovative ideas, products, and services. The certificate is a 15-credit post-baccalaureate program that can be completed in as little as 9 months.. Enrolled students must obtain a B or better with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0. The certificate is designed to be completed in one academic year (Fall – 2 Classes, Winter – 1 Class, Spring – 2 Classes).
The certificate requirements consist of five courses:
- Innovation
- Strategy and Sustained Competitive Advantage
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Leading Organizational Change
- Negotiations and Dispute Resolution
Tuition/Aid
We offer the same tuition rates no matter where you live. And there are a range of financial aid and assistantship options for TCNJ graduate students.
Accreditation
Accreditation by AACSB International—the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools, worldwide.
