Students may apply directly for admissions into a Graduate Certificate Program. Alternatively, requirements for any of these graduate certificate programs can be met through concurrent completion of MBA, MSA or MSBA degree requirements when overlap exists between the two programs. After completing all requirements within a certificate program, students will need to apply for award of the certificate. Once the certificate is awarded, the credentials will be added to the University transcript and a certificate will be produced by the Graduate Division and sent to the student.
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Contact the Graduate Business Admissions team
- Email: mba@sfsu.edu
- Phone: (415) 817-4300
Graduate Business Student Resources
Frequently Asked Questions
- Telephone: (415) 817-4300
- Fax: (415) 817-4340
- Email: mba@sfsu.edu
- Office Hours:
- Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
- Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. (Remote Only)
Downtown Campus
- San Francisco State University
- 160 Spear Street, Suite 1230
- San Francisco, CA 94105
Quick Links
- Division of Graduate Studies
- J. Paul Leonard Library
- Office of International Programs
- Office of Career Services & Leadership Development
- SFSU Bookstore
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How to Apply for the Award of the Certificate
How to pay the $7 Certificate Approved Program (CAP) fee online:
- Once you are logged into your Student Center, click the “Make a Payment” link located under the Finances menu bar.
- Under the Available Items subheading, click the hyperlink that reads "Graduate Division"
- Under the Categories subheading, click the hyperlink that reads “Grad Division - Certificate Prog...”.
- Click the hyperlink that reads “Grad Division – POST BACCALAUREATE Certificate”.
- Click “Add to payment” button.
- Click “Pay now” button.
- Finalize the remaining steps to make your payment for the CAP fee.
After completing all of the course requirements within a certificate program, complete the Certificate Approved Program (CAP) form. The form is to be completed, signed, and submitted to the Graduate Division through Docusign. When completing the Docusign PowerForm Signer Information, designate Christopher Kingston (cak@sfsu.edu) as the Certificate Advisor (for all graduate business certificate programs). The current Program/Department Chair for each certificate program should be included as follows:
- Accounting - Amy Chang, Ph.D. (amychang@sfsu.edu)
- Enterprise Cybersecurity - Sameer Verma, Ph.D. (sverma@sfsu.edu)
- Enterprise Information Systems - Sameer Verma, Ph.D. (sverma@sfsu.edu)
- Ethics and Compliance - Denise Kleinrichert, Ph.D. (dk@sfsu.edu)
- Ethical Artificial Intelligence - Denise Kleinrichert, Ph.D. (dk@sfsu.edu)
- Finance - Ming Li, Ph.D. (mingli@sfsu.edu)
- International Business & Global Leadership - Bruce Heiman, Ph.D. (bheiman@sfsu.edu)
- Marketing in the Digital Economy - Deanna Wang, Ph.D. (wangh@sfsu.edu)
- Sustainable Business - Robert Bonner, Ph.D. (bonner@sfsu.edu)