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Build expertise with flexible, online learning for professionals

The changing world of business calls for leaders who continually evolve to meet new challenges. Gies Professional Credentials offer flexible, highly relevant learning opportunities that empower you to expand your impact and achieve your goals. Our online learning continuum is intentionally designed to give you control over your point of entry, your path, and your pace.

Online Courses, Certificates, and Badges

Whether you want to upskill, reskill, or just explore a course that interests you, our expertise in online learning ensures that whatever path you choose will be engaging, highly relevant, and flexible, to fit your busy life and professional goals. You can even stack credits toward a specialized certificate or Gies Online graduate degree, if you choose. 

Graduate Certificates

Graduate Certificates

Graduate certificates are available in Accounting Data Analytics, Accounting Foundations, CPA PathwaysDigital Marketing, and Strategic Leadership and Management. These 12-credit hour online programs deliver immediately applicable business know-how.

Skills iCademies

Skills iCademies

Skills iCadmies are a collection of 15-20 short micro-courses focused on specific skill development. iCademies are currently available in Business Analytics and Leadership Skills.

Earn CPE Credits

CPE Credits

CPAs who are licensed in Illinois and any states who have reciprocal agreements are eligible to earn CPE credits with our courses.


Google Career Certificates

To advance our mission of delivering life-changing access to business education, Gies has partnered with Google to prepare learners in the Google Career Certificate programs with critical business skills.

The Professional Success Skills specialization from Gies can be bundled with any Google Career Certificate to earn a dual badge of completion from Google and Gies Business. This noncredit specialization will prepare you with critical business skills like leadership, teamwork, and strategic thinking.

The Financial Analysis - Skills for Success specialization was built to complement Google's Data Analytics Career Certificate. This noncredit specialization will help you develop an analytical mindset in the areas of finance, accounting, and financial statement analysis. 

Enterprise Partnership Programs

Our Enterprise Partners program offers employers the opportunity to advance their workforce through customized online and on-site educational experiences. For employees, the program helps accelerate their careers. For employers, it advances the organization. We invite you to partner with us to access customized, high-quality, and engaging content to cultivate your employees’ business skills. From information about the fundamentals of business to disruptive technologies, we provide the global workforce access to the highest quality, stackable, in-demand content.

"Developing the program with Gies as the partner was a very strong message of how serious we were about [internal promotion]."

Dr. James C. Leonard
MD President, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
The Carle Foundation

Gies News and Events

Three Gies faculty honored with GBAA awards

Apr 16, 2021, 16:29 by Aaron Bennett
Three Gies College of Business faculty members - Rob Metzger, Michael Shaw, and Minjeong Kim - have been honored by the Gies Business Alumni Association for their outstanding teaching.

Three Gies College of Business faculty members - Rob Metzger, Michael Shaw, and Minjeong Kim - have been honored by the Gies Business Alumni Association for their outstanding teaching. This year's award winners will be recognized at the 2021 Spring Luncheon.

Rob MetzgerRob Metzger | Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

A veteran of the investment banking industry, Rob Metzger, '89 joined the Gies College of Business faculty in 2015. Metzger serves as the director of the College's Investment Banking Academy and Honors Program. After a successful 16-year career at William Blair & Company, Metzger is sharing his expertise with high-achieving undergraduate students.


Mike ShawMichael Shaw | Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Since joining Gies Business in 1984, Michael Shaw has become a world-renowned expert in IT governance and business intelligence. The Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair of Information Systems, Shaw teaches graduate-level courses on IT governance and strategy. His reputation with his students has consistently earned him a spot on the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students."


Minjeong KimMinjeong Kim | Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance

While pursuing her PhD in Accountancy, Minjeong Kim has quickly earned a reputation as a impactful teacher. Kim, a teaching assistant in accountancy, has been named to the "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students" in 2017 and 2018.