Unlock Your Potential: Transform Your Expertise into an MBA

Are you a seasoned professional with a wealth of certifications and course credits that don’t quite fit a traditional master’s degree? At the MBA Standards Board, we recognize the value of your hard-earned knowledge and experience. We’re here to help you consolidate your achievements into a single, powerful MBA credential that showcases your true potential to employers. It will be an important designation, the first thing after your name that says high achiever and competent executive to employers.  

Our innovative approach to MBA certification goes beyond the classroom. We accept a wide range of business-related graduate courses, including those completed at accredited colleges, as well as standalone courses from respected platforms like LinkedIn, Section, Coursera, Google, Microsoft, and top universities such as MIT and Yale. By leveraging your existing course credits and work experience, you may find that you’re already halfway to earning your MBA certification with us!

While we don’t require entrance exams (even the most prestigious MBA schools have eliminated GMAT and GRE requirements), we do require a bachelor’s degree as a foundation for your MBA journey. From there, our expert advisors will work closely with you to curate a personalized curriculum that aligns with your career goals and desired MBA specialization.

Top educators and the MBA Standards Board, believe in the power of competency-based advancement. We’re moving away from outdated time-based in classroom seat credit systems and toward a future where your competencies (skills and expertise) are the true measures of your success. That’s why we focus on course completion certificates rather than traditional grades. Your certificates demonstrate that you’ve mastered the material and gained actionable knowledge that you can apply in the real world.

When you enroll in our MBA Certification Program, you’ll be assigned a dedicated advisor who will assess your work and course credits to date, consider your career aspirations, and recommend a tailored selection of courses from various institutions to complete your MBA curriculum. You’ll have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of affordable, online courses that fit your schedule and learning style. If you have specific courses in mind, we’ll work with you to approve and incorporate them into your personalized MBA roadmap.

One of the unique benefits of our program is that you’ll receive course completion certificates directly from the issuing universities, in addition to your MBA Certification. These certificates serve as powerful proof of your achievements, allowing you to showcase your newly acquired skills on your resume, LinkedIn profile, and beyond.

With individual courses averaging around $90, our program is designed to be both accessible and affordable. We’ll guide you through the process of selecting course groups that not only fulfill your MBA Core and Specialization requirements but also provide you with additional credentials to enhance your personal brand and marketability.

Whether you’re looking to advance in your current field or pivot to a new career, our MBA Certification program is the key to unlocking your full potential. By leveraging your existing expertise and tailoring your education to your unique goals, we’ll help you earn a credential that sets you apart in today’s competitive job market.

Don’t let your hard-earned knowledge go to waste. Enroll in the MBA Standards Board Certification Program today and transform your expertise into a powerful, recognized MBA that opens doors to new opportunities. Your future starts here.

Here are a few typical examples of course groups and courses that may be recommended to you depending on your interests and goals from hundreds available. (Their tution are paid direct to the learning institution never to us.)

Google Project Management: Professional Certificate – 6 course series.

Project Management Specialization

Learn To Think Like A Computer Scientist. Master the fundamentals of the design and analysis of algorithms.

4.8 of 5 course rating (5,551 reviews)

Taught in English

22 languages available

Some content may not be translated

Instructor: Tim Roughgarden

Cost: 1yr cost $500 all 6 courses or about $83 a course.

Prepare for a new career in the high-growth field of project management, no experience or degree required. Get professional training designed by Google and get on the fastrack to a competitively paid job. There are over 715,000 open jobs in project management with a median entry-level salary of $77,000.¹

Project managers are natural problem-solvers. They set the plan and guide teammates, and manage changes, risks, and stakeholders.

Gain in-demand skills that will prepare you for an entry-level job. Learn from Google employees whose foundations in project management served as launchpads for their own careers.

Upon completion, you can directly apply for jobs with Google and over 150 U.S. employers including Deloitte, Target, Verizon, and of course, Google.

This program qualifies you for over 100 hours of project management education, which helps prepare you for Project Management Institute Certifications like the globally-recognized Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®.

75% of certificate graduates report a positive career outcome (e.g., new job, promotion, or raise) within six months of completion²

¹Lightcast™ US Job Postings (2022: Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022). ²Based on program graduate survey, United States 2022

Skills you’ll gain will include: Creating risk management plans; Understanding process improvement techniques; Managing escalations, team dynamics, and stakeholders; Creating budgets and navigating procurement; Utilizing project management software, tools, and templates; Practicing Agile project management, with an emphasis on Scrum.

Through a mix of videos, assessments, and hands-on activities, you’ll get introduced to initiating, planning, and running both traditional and Agile projects. You’ll develop a toolbox to demonstrate your understanding of key project management elements, including managing a schedule, budget, and team.

Stanford Specialization – 4 course series.

Algorithms Specialization

Learn To Think Like A Computer Scientist. Master the fundamentals of the design and analysis of algorithms.

4.8 of 5 course rating (5,551 reviews)

Taught in English

22 languages available

Some content may not be translated

Instructor: Tim Roughgarden

Cost: 1yr $399 all 4 courses or about $99 a course.

Specialization – 4 course series.

Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual depth. This specialization is an introduction to algorithms for learners with at least a little programming experience. The specialization is rigorous but emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details. After completing this specialization, you will be well-positioned to ace your technical interviews and speak fluently about algorithms with other programmers and computer scientists.

About the instructor: Tim Roughgarden has been a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University since 2004. He has taught and published extensively on the subject of algorithms and their applications.

1 Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms Course 1•16 hours •4.8(5,196 ratings)

2 Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures Course 2 •15 hours•4.8(1,962 ratings)

3 Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming Course 3 •15 hours•4.8(1,248 ratings)

4 Shortest Paths Revisited, NP-Complete Problems and What To Do About Them Course 4•13 hours •4.8(804 ratings)

 

Yale Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator (Single Course)

Taught in English

22 languages available

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592,692 have already enrolled.

4.9 of 5 (4,794 reviews)

Cost about $90 if completed in a year.

This course will help you be a better negotiator. Unlike many negotiation courses, we develop a framework for analyzing and shaping negotiations. This framework will allow you to make principled arguments that persuade others. It will allow you to see beneath the surface of apparent conflicts to uncover the underlying interests. You will leave the course to be better able to predict, interpret, and shape the behavior of those you face in competitive situations.

In this course, you will have several opportunities to negotiate with other students using case studies based on common situations in business and in life. You can get feedback on your performance and compare what you did to how others approached the same scenario. The cases also provide a setting to discuss a wide-ranging set of topics including preparing for a negotiation, making ultimatums, avoiding regret, expanding the pie, and dealing with someone who has a very different perspective on the world. Advanced topics include negotiating when you have no power, negotiating over email, and the role of gender differences in negotiation. To close out the course, we will hear insights from three negotiation experts: Linda Babcock, Herb Cohen, and John McCall MacBain. Enjoy.