Funded by HERA (Higher Education Regional Alliance) and the US Department of Education Microcredential Grant Project*, the Professional Certificate in Business Essentials (also referred to as the Mini-MBA) is a short-term, noncredit, microcredential program specifically designed to equip working professionals from a variety of industries (particularly those in technical fields) with fundamental business knowledge and skills for immediate real-world application.
The Mini-MBA combines virtual live sessions (1 hour per module session, 2 module sessions every week on Tuesday and Thursday) and online asynchronous classwork (approximately 1 hour per module session), and will take up to 50 hours to complete. It runs Tuesdays and Thursdays, Feb. 17 through May 14, 2026.
The Mini-MBA is split into six targeted, skills-focused learning modules. The dates listed beside each module indicate the 1-hour, online synchronous sessions.
Module 1: Leadership & Strategic Thinking (Tuesdays, February 17, 24, and March 3, 10)
Module 2: Supervisory Management and Team Leadership (Thursdays, February 19, 26, and March 5, 12)
Module 3: Financial Literacy and Budgeting (Tuesdays, March 24, 31, and April 7, 14)
Module 4: Organizational Behavior and Change Management (Thursdays, March 26, and April 2, 9, 16)
Module 5: Project Management and Agile Methodologies (Tuesdays, April 21, 28, and May 5, 12)
Module 6: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (Thursdays, April 23, 30, and May 7, 14)
The program cost is $2,999. (There is a 20% discount available for any registrations received by Monday, Feb. 2, reducing the cost further to $2,399.20 per participant. Choose ‘Early Bird Discount’ from the drop-down menu when checking out to have the discount applied.)
A limited number of scholarships are also available. To formally request scholarship support, contact Dr. George Kroeninger, CPE Executive Director, at kroeninger@msoe.edu. The deadline for all scholarship requests is Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. CT.
*HERA Microcredential Grant funding provided by US Department of Education: Award P116Z24014917
