MSOE’s 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, September 15 through December 10, 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, September 15, 22, 29, and October 6)
Module 2: Supervisory Management and Team Leadership (Thursdays, September 17, 24, and October 1, 8)
Module 3: Financial Literacy and Budgeting (Tuesdays, October 13, 20, 27, and November 3)
Module 4: Organizational Behavior and Change Management (Thursdays, October 15, 22, 29, and November 5)
Module 5: Project Management and Agile Methodologies (Tuesdays, November 10, 17, and December 1, 8)
Module 6: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (Thursdays, November 12, 19, and December 3, 10)
The program cost is $2,999. (There is a 20% discount available for any registrations received by Tuesday, Sept. 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.)
