Innovation Certificate
Graduate ProgramsWhy Earn Your Certificate in Innovation?
This certificate has an emphasis on diffusing innovation and design thinking. It is intended for someone who wants to drive change through innovation and incorporate innovative practices in their workplace.
- Students will learn to successfully harness, promote and diffuse innovation and an innovation mindset across all levels of an organization. Students will learn the models of innovation to prepare individuals in leadership positions for effective decision-making.
- Students will learn to foster an innovative environment of communication and collaboration, including how to identify the Rules of Engagement in a collaborative environment, spot the barriers to collaboration, and see the difference between getting collaboration right and wrong.
- Students will learn how to find and frame problems in creative ways using techniques such as ethnographic observation, prototyping, storytelling, journey mapping, value chain analysis, and divergent/convergent idea generation.
Tuition, Scholarships & Financial Aid
Find opportunities to further advance your career and academic studies.
UMBC participates in all federal and state student financial aid programs and offers scholarships and assistantships through the Graduate School, Graduate Departments and the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.
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Contact Information
Innovation Program Contacts
Main Contact
Admissions
eil@umbc.edu
Graduate Program Director
Gib Mason
443-562-7912
gibmason@umbc.edu
Program Coordinator
Current Student Help
opp-studentsuccess@umbc.edu
UMBC Graduate School Admissions Office Contact Information
Mailing Address
UMBC Graduate School
1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250
Admissions Staff
Staff are available from
Mon - Fri, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 410-455-2537
Request Help
Email Graduate Admissions at gradschool@umbc.edu.