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Certificate in Six Sigma for Business and Industry

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Six Sigma for Business and Industry Certificate Overview

Purdue University Northwest’s six sigma for business and industry certificate is an instructor-led, online format that lets you learn at your convenience and earn this post-baccalaureate certificate online in six months!

Boost your career by leading teams to facilitate change and incorporating Lean Six Sigma to meet business objectives.

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Our instructor-led, online format lets you learn at your convenience with our practiced instructors.

Live weekly sessions are available with recorded lectures viewable at any time after the initial live class date.

Six Sigma Certificate Overview

This 12-credit graduate certificate will lead students in communicating using Lean Six Sigma terminology throughout the organization. Credit for the four graduate courses (12 credit hours) can be applied toward a PNW Master of Science in Technology.

From optimizing product and process development to evaluating productivity, our sequence of courses will help you master process thinking to identify inputs that control ultimate output.

You can currently complete this program online.

Sample Courses

  • IET 41100 – Applications of Lean and Six Sigma Methodologies
  • IT 50800 – Quality and Productivity in Industry and Technology
  • IET 51000 – Product and Process Development Optimization

Six Sigma Course of Study

Six Sigma for Business and Industry Certificate Highlights

Boost your career by learning proven techniques for championing new, optimized, effective and efficient processes for your organization! Our graduate certificate will guide you in incorporating Lean Six Sigma to meet business objectives while leading teams to facilitate change.

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Six Sigma for Business and Industry Certificate Outcomes

Earn your Six Sigma for Business and Industry graduate certificate online in six months! If you’re interested in further growing your skills, credit for the four graduate courses (12 credit hours) can be applied toward a PNW Master of Science in Technology.

Sruthi Nutakki

Every two weeks we would have an in-class case study with time to go through a scenario and identify what steps we would take to resolve it. I feel those case studies are the main part that helped me in job interviews.

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Earn a Certificate in Six Sigma for Business and Industry at PNW

Want to learn more about how our Six Sigma for Business and Industry graduate certificate opens doors?

Contact Graduate Program Coordinator Mary Rose Sicinski at maryrose@pnw.edu or (219) 989-2966.