Certificate Program for Undergraduates

Kellogg Advantage The Kellogg Certificate Program for Undergraduates (CPU) at Northwestern University provides employers an opportunity to recruit and hire students with top academic credentials, leadership potential and teamwork skills. Our students are equipped with strong analytic and managerial skills, and ready to add value to any organization’s success.

Top talent for your Advanced coursework, employers of organization real-world application program alumni The Certificate Program attracts Through team projects, case studies A.T. Kearney some of the most talented and and individual study, students motivated students at Northwestern. complete a rigorous curriculum Bain & Company For admission to this highly selective that equips them to apply theory to Bank of America program, students must complete practice. Both certificates – Financial Merrill Lynch challenging course material in Economics and Managerial Analytics Barclays Capital Bates White advanced calculus and linear algebra, – develop students’ potential to BlackRock probability, econometrics, and micro- be leaders in your organization. Booz & Company economics. Our students represent a Students in the Financial Economics Citi variety of academic disciplines and track learn valuation tools and CME Group hold leadership positions in student financial applications, while the Cornerstone Research organizations across campus. Their Managerial Analytics students Consulting proven analytical and quantitative develop analytic tools and skills used Goldman Sachs skills, combined with their well- in business planning, operations and Google rounded leadership and managerial consulting. Grosvenor Capital Management intelligence, give them the tools to IBM apply to the workplace right away. Add to your talent pipeline J.P. Morgan McKinsey & Company Each student who comes out of CPU Taught by world-class faculty Microsoft is driven, energized and career- Morgan Stanley Our professors are preeminent focused. Our students can meet your thought leaders in their field and recruiting needs – from internships Federal Reserve Board highly sought after by corporations, to full-time roles. Request a resume Teach for America industries and governments to pro- book or find out about the recruiting The vide insight and guidance on some timeline to secure top-notch talent The Cambridge Group of the world’s toughest business and from our highly rigorous program. ThoughtWorks social issues. By taking advanced UBS Investment Bank coursework from our faculty, who William Blair & Company teach in our premier MBA degree ZS Associates program, CPU students are armed with sophisticated analytical tools and critical thinking skills to solve real-world business challenges.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Certificate comparison

Financial Economics Managerial Analytics

Open to* All Northwestern University students All Northwestern University students who have taken prerequisite courses who have taken prerequisite courses in in advanced calculus and linear advanced calculus and linear algebra, *Admission is selective. algebra, probability, econometrics, probability, statistics, microeconomics, and microeconomics and optimization

Focuses on Corporate finance, capital markets, Applying business analytical skills in securities pricing context of finance, operations and strategy decisions

Courses + Principles of Finance + Principles of Finance + Investments + Competitive Strategy and Industrial + Derivatives Structure + Topics in Financial Economics + Operations and Supply Chain Strategy (currently: Fixed Income) + Topics in Managerial Analytics (currently: Empirical Methods in Customer Analytics)

Students will be + Cash-flow analysis and financial + Modeling and analyzing business prepared for modeling decisions responsibilities + Obtaining, financing and comparing + Analysis of potential mergers and that include capital structure choices acquisitions + Analysis of potential mergers and + Investment decisions in a supply acquisitions chain network + Capital budgeting and capital + Analyzing and optimizing supply chain allocation decisions networks + Portfolio investment and asset + Examine how industry structure management impacts a firm’s strategic options + Risk management strategies + Statistical analysis of current trends + Research cash flow and valuation in business practices, products and estimates industry competition + Supporting client interactions with + Supporting client interactions with analysis and presentations analysis and presentations

Offered since Fall 2007 Fall 2008

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