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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 Pathways, Digital 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

Elliott to lead Gies' online programs and strategy

Jan 9, 2020, 11:59 by Aaron Bennett
W. Brooke Elliott has been named associate dean at Gies College of Business, a role in which she will oversee the strategy and programs in the online space, including the iMBA, iMSA, MOOCs, and the College’s new initiatives in lifelong learning and enterprise partnerships.

W. Brooke Elliott has been named associate dean at Gies College of Business, a role in which she will oversee the strategy and programs in the online space, including the iMBA, iMSA, MOOCs, and the College’s new initiatives in lifelong learning and enterprise partnerships. The move, which is effective February 3, comes as Assistant Dean of Online Programs Arshad Saiyed has accepted at new position at Northeastern University.

Brooke ElliottElliott joined the Gies College of Business faculty in 2003, and since 2017 she has served as head of the College’s top-ranked Department of Accountancy. She has been heavily involved with online programs since 2016, when she helped develop and launch the iMSA, the College’s fully online master’s in accounting. Elliott has also been a leader in shaping strategy and continuous improvement of the student experience in the iMBA and iMSA programs.

“I am extremely grateful to Arshad for being such a champion of our online programs,” said Dean Jeffrey R. Brown. “Under his leadership, online programs have delivered quality and growth beyond our expectations. Brooke is a proven leader. She has been an advocate for online programs, and she has been instrumental in helping establish strategic objectives for their continued growth. She exemplifies Gies’ student-centric approach to innovation.”

Gies’ online programs have disrupted the traditional business education model since they were launched in 2016. This spring, more than 3,200 students will be enrolled in the iMBA and iMSA. The programs are revolutionary in their delivery, concentrations, immersions, accessibility, and career-curated content. They combine material in ways that professionals use it in the real world, not in traditional academic silos. And it is all delivered at a price point well below what students will pay at other top-ranked universities.

“I look forward to the opportunity to guide these strong online programs to continued success and to help develop new programs that will enhance the reputation of our College and provide lasting benefit to our students, alumni, and the broader business community,” said Elliott. “It has been one of my greatest honors lead our incredible Department of Accountancy, and I know the future is bright for our department.”

As part of this transition, Brooke will step down as head of the Department of Accountancy. Associate head Theo Sougiannis will serve as interim department head through the summer of 2021. Sougiannis joined the Department of Accountancy in 1990 and has served in multiple capacities, including interim head in 2011-2012. A search for a permanent department head will be conducted during the 2020-2021 academic year. 

About Gies College of Business
For more than 100 years, Gies College of Business has intentionally designed its innovative programs, leading-edge curriculum, and experiential learning opportunities to empower and prepare students to turn big ideas into meaningful actions. Today, Gies faculty prepare more than 7,000 future business leaders, including 3,100 undergraduates, from around the world to put their purpose into practice and provide transformative leadership in a global economy. GiesBusiness.illinois.edu

 

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