Professional Excellence and Certification Program
USC Upstate is collaborating with Nepal-based Red Dot Technologies to provide professionals with opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills across key areas of business excellence. The first phase of this collaboration utilizes instruction from partner Ed2Go to provide online courses with complete-at-your-own-pace work combined with guidance from experienced trainers. The courses ensure participants gain a strong understanding of the material and can apply industry concepts to their work. 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.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
This course will introduce you to various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) and how we interact with AI as consumers in applications like chatbots and recommendation engines. You’ll see how AI provides analytics in business and consider industries that may be transformed or even disrupted by AI implementations.
Project Management Fundamentals
This course 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
This course is designed for anyone recently promoted to a supervisory or management position or wanting to learn how to become a more effective manager. You will learn the basics of business by learning the language of management. You will learn how to make a successful transition from employee to manager and how to manage your time so that you can deal with the 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.
REGISTRATION
First intake starting November 15, 2025
Contacts
USC Upstate
Jeff Stinson
Dean, George Dean Johnson College of Business and Economics