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An online Business Analytics and Intelligence certificate gives professionals a path to develop skills in analyzing data for private sector industries. Advance your career in business intelligence, management or finance. Credits can also be applied to a master’s program. Electives offer choices of which include cyber threat, social network, financial analysis, analytic techniques and geospatial intelligence. 

Virtual learning offers:

• Flexible, asynchronous class formats
• 8-week or 15-week class schedules
• Classes limited to about 20 students

No matter your background, you can learn about leadership with this Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership degree online.  As a leader, you will need to adapt to change while earning trust, gaining support, creating vision, and making ethical decisions.  

Learn to adapt to the ever-evolving professional world while developing leadership and problem-solving skills.  Emphasis is placed on:

• Aligning people by communicating, seeking commitment, and building teams
• Controlling and solving problems
• Motivating and inspiring by energizing, empowering others, and satisfying unmet needs

These credits can count toward the Master of Science in Organizational Leadership degree.

In as little as one year, no matter your background, you can learn about leadership with this Master of Science in Organizational Leadership degree online.  As a leader, you will need to adapt to change while earning trust, gaining support, creating vision, and making ethical decisions.  Develop leadership and problem-solving skills that can be applied to any field.  

Learn to adapt to the ever-evolving professional world while developing your own leadership philosophy and putting leadership theories into practice.  Emphasis in this online master's in organizational leadership is placed on:

• Aligning people by communicating, seeking commitment, and building teams
• Controlling and solving problems
• Motivating and inspiring by energizing, empowering others, and satisfying unmet needs

This program is an alternative to an MBA.  While an MBA focuses on organizational rules, administrative functions, and business procedures, this program emphasizes entrepreneurship, vision and strategy, team building, motivation, and empowering others.

Enter the rapidly growing field of data analysis and data wrangling with this Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics, an online data science degree.  Learn technical and analytical skills while gaining a competitive edge in the workplace.  Even without prior knowledge of information technology or coding, students are able to act as key informants for decision-makers in the public and private sectors.  Courses in this online business analytics degree teach students to:

• Obtain, organize, and transform data for analysis
• Store, analyze, and visualize big data on cloud computing platforms
• Communicate analytic finings in easy-to-understand formats

These credits can be applied to the master’s degree in Data Science and also prepare students for careers as data analysts, business analysts, and big data analysts.

You can gain expertise in managing intelligence processes with the Graduate Certificate in Applied Intelligence from Mercyhurst University. The online homeland security program boasts a decades-long record as a leader in preparing intelligence analysts.

Through the online homeland security graduate certificate program, you develop your communication, research, and analytical skills. Students may select an elective from such options as:

• Social media
• Business analysis
• Counterterrorism
• Competitive intelligence

You can gain expertise in management and administrative skills with the Graduate Certificate in Criminal Justice Administration from Mercyhurst University. The online administration program qualifies you for leadership roles in social service and criminal justice organizations.

Through the online administration graduate certificate program, you benefit from the department’s 40-plus years of experience developing professionals in this field. Your online studies explore such topics as:

• Data analysis
• Research methodology
• Government management
• Criminal justice planning and evaluation principles

With no background in IT, you can train for a career fighting cybercrime in less than a year with the Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security from Mercyhurst University. The online cyber security program prepares you to protect computer systems and networks from cyberattacks.

Through the online cyber security graduate certificate program, you take one course at a time. Your online studies explore such topics as:

• Cyber risk management
• System and application security
• Cryptography and network security
• Computing and information science concepts

The online Master of Science in Applied Intelligence program provides the foundation necessary to succeed as intelligence analysts and leaders of analytical teams within strategic intelligence industries, criminal justice fields, and federal and state agencies.  The curriculum focuses on intelligence as a process, emphasizing the application of intelligence theory and advancing analytical skills while teaching about the history and theory of the intelligence field.  Coursework develops deep researching abilities, proficient use of analytical techniques and methodologies, concise analytical writing, and effective briefing.

You can help preserve all people’s fundamental rights and freedoms with the Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from Mercyhurst University. The online administration degree explores such issues as:

• Victimology
• Crime policy
• Crime prevention
• Women and crime

Through the online administration master’s degree program, you develop critical thinking and research skills. Graduates enter the workforce with expertise in interpersonal and organizational dynamics, planning, and program evaluation.

The online Master of Science in Cyber Security program trains students for positions with government intelligence agencies as cyber analysts and for positions as IT security specialists in private enterprises.  The curriculum prepares students to analyze cyber threats to computer systems, networks, and networked devices and to protect systems from cyber attacks.  You will learn to evaluate legal, regulatory, and ethical issues related to cyber security and privacy and to effectively communicate complex cyber security information.

The MSN in Integrative Nursing Leadership, an online nursing administration degree from Mercyhurst University, is designed for BSN-educated nurses seeking to advance their careers.  Through this 100% online degree students focus on addressing the stress nurses experience in the workplace as well as the high rate of burnout in the field as they prepare for positions as nursing supervisors and administrators.  Integrative health engages patients as informed and empowered partners, emphasizing resiliency and patient safety.  Courses teach you how to be a leader that uses health and well-being strategies, not only for patients but also for the health care team members they lead.  Communication and problem-solving skills are a focal point and are addressed from your first course.  

Students at Mercyhurst benefit from the dedicated and skilled faculty and the abundance of educational resources as they work to improve the health, well-being, and resiliency of self and others.  All coursework is dedicated to producing compassionate, merciful, mindful, and resilient leaders in nursing whose relationship-based practices are grounded in evidence.