Business and Finance
You could advance your career by earning a certificate that teaches you the professional knowledge and skills that could propel you forward. Pursue a career as a financial planner, project manager, risk manager, Six Sigma quality professional, or executive coach—lucrative and rewarding career choices that could leverage your talents.*
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Certificate in Financial Planning
You could establish a financial planning career in which you help clients to identify their financial strengths and weaknesses to achieve their financial goals.* Our online Certificate in Financial Planning is a CFP Board-Registered Program that qualifies you to sit for the CFP® Certification Examination.† The CFP® certification offers consulting prestige that could attract clients and create greater opportunities with banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, accounting firms, and more.
Project Management Certificate
If you are interested in establishing a project management career dedicated to achieving organizational goals while optimizing resources, including time, money, and human capital, consider this program. The Project Management Certificate teaches both the organizational skills to help you advance your career and the qualifications to make a career move. The Project Management Certificate can be specialized to suit one of three fields: business, information technology, or construction.
Risk Management Certificate
The Sarbanes-Oxley act has greatly increased the need for financial compliance for corporations in all fields. Meanwhile, the cumulative effects of major events such as terrorist acts, natural disasters, and labor strikes have Fortune 500 companies paying closer attention to risk management functions. The insurance industry, for example, is experiencing rising costs and decreasing coverage, a potentially problematic trend for corporations. With a Risk Management Certificate, you could work as a consultant or in corporate departments dedicated to risk management, loss prevention, operations, accounting, and more in a variety of industries.*
Six Sigma Certificate
If you are interested in how to impact a company's success by maximizing the performance of its business management processes, consider this program. Study how to apply the Six Sigma levels of quality methodology to effect breakthrough improvements in productivity, reliability, and profitability of goods and services. You could increase levels of customer satisfaction and help raise employee morale. You may enjoy career opportunities in a broad range of industries such as manufacturing, information technology, marketing, media, and much more.*
In an independent survey of students and graduates of for-profit schools, Kaplan University ranked #1 for quality and value in a survey of online students.‡
Please note our business and finance certificates are not eligible for Title IV Federal Financial Aid.
*Kaplan University's programs are designed to prepare graduates to pursue employment in their field of study, or in related fields. However, the University does not guarantee that graduates will be placed in any particular job or employed at all.
*†Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., owns the CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM, and certification marks, which are awarded to individuals who successfully complete initial and ongoing certification requirements. Kaplan University does not certify individuals to use CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM, and marks. CFP® certification is granted solely by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., to individuals who, in addition to completing an educational requirement such as this CFP® Board-Registered Program, have met its ethics, experience, and examination requirements.
†February 2006 Higher Education Survey Report of current and former students of for-profit secondary institutions. For additional information, go to www.kaplan.edu/ku/surveyresults.
