Professional Excellence and Certification Program
USC Upstate is partnering with Nepal-based Red Dot Technologies to provide professionals with opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills across key areas of business excellence. Faculty from the University’s Johnson College of Business have carefully designed courses that deliver high-impact learning and practical strategies for keeping pace with industry trends. Offered online for flexibility and guided by experienced instructors, the courses ensure participants gain a strong understanding of the material. This collaboration serves as an entry point for Nepalese professionals aspiring to grow into leadership roles while equipping them with valuable, industry-relevant capabilities.
Introduction to Business Analytics
Give yourself an employment advantage by developing analytical skills that are consistently in high demand. This course will teach you powerful quantitative methods that will have you making better, more informed, and more effective business decisions.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite
The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite will prepare you with a practical knowledge foundation of key definitions, applications, processes, techniques, and more, enabling you to sharpen your knowledge and skills in the fields of AI and machine learning.
Project Management Fundamentals
In this course, an experienced Project Management Professional will help you master the essentials of project management. You will become an indispensable member of your project team by discovering and mastering the critical concepts you need to plan, implement, control and close any type of project.
Fundamentals of Supervision and Management
If you have recently been promoted to a supervisory or management position or want to learn how to become a more effective manager, this course will help you master the basics of business by learning the language of management. You will learn how to make a successful transition from employee to manager and you will learn how to manage your time so that you can deal with the constant demands of a managerial job.
Six Sigma: Total Quality Applications
Determine the relationship of basic statistics to Six Sigma and learn about the Six Sigma business case, including strategic planning, the voice of the customer (VOC), quality function deployment (QFD), benchmarking, and financial investment methods. In this course, you will learn more than 25 tools and methods relate to the DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) model.
Registered
First intake starting November 15, 2025
Contacts
USC Upstate
Jeff Stinson
Dean, George Dean Johnson College of Business and Economics
Red Dot Technologies
Raunak Bhattarai
HR/Admin, Red Dot Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
raunak@ubventuresllc.com