Graduate Certificate in Professional Sales Online

Sales are essential to the survival and growth of any organization. Strengthen your ability to lead a successful sales team while updating your own sales strategies in this career-relevant online certificate program.

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Program Overview

Achieve more goals with a Professional Sales Grad Cert

$5,700 Total Tuition
6 months Program Duration
9 Credit Hours

The dynamic field of professional sales is rapidly changing due to globalization, e-commerce and increasingly diverse business models, from entrepreneurial startups to mega conglomerates. The fast-paced, affordable Graduate Certificate in Professional Sales online program helps you remain competitive in this critical field.

Experiential learning activities emphasize effective business-to-business (B2B) communication and sales strategies in real-world scenarios. This professional sales certificate online program examines profit-driven sales operations with optimized customer relationship management (CRM), social media and technology. Learn how to negotiate effectively and appropriately in a multicultural global market.

Upon completing this professional sales certificate online program, you will be able to:

  • Apply experiential learning activities to real-world business-to-business (B2B) sales situations
  • Understand the decisions and tasks of modern sales managers and present theoretical elements of sales management
  • Develop analytical techniques for sales programs
  • Integrate sales strategies with customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Use technology, social media, negotiation and global/cultural understanding to create and maintain long-term client relationships
  • Apply experiential learning activities to real-world business-to-business (B2B) sales situations
  • Understand the decisions and tasks of modern sales managers and present theoretical elements of sales management
  • Develop analytical techniques for sales programs
  • Integrate sales strategies with customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Use technology, social media, negotiation and global/cultural understanding to create and maintain long-term client relationships

Career opportunities:

  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • Business Development Executive
  • Business Sales Consultant
  • Regional Sales Director
  • Sales Executive
  • Marketing Manager
  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • Business Development Executive
  • Business Sales Consultant
  • Regional Sales Director
  • Sales Executive
  • Marketing Manager

Graduate programs also available:

St. Cloud State offers additional graduate certificates and a Master of Business Administration online. Check out our MBA and other graduate certificate online programs.

Total Tuition $5,700
Program Duration As few as 6 months
Credit Hours 9

Accreditation

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The Herberger Business School at St. Cloud State University is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB). Less than 6% of the world’s schools offering business degree programs hold AACSB business accreditation. We are one of two business schools in Minnesota to hold AACSB accreditation for 45+ years, showing a long-standing record of excellence.

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Tuition

Affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition is easy on your budget

Our online graduate certificate program offers the same tuition to all in-state and out-of-state students. Tuition is affordable and includes all fees.

Tuition breakdown:

$5,700 Total Tuition
$633.33 Per Credit Hour

Tuition breakdown:

Per Credit Hour $633.33
Total Tuition $5,700*

Calendar

Schedule your program start when it’s best for you

The online graduate certificate program from St. Cloud State features 7-week courses and multiple start dates each year. Choose the start date that is best for you.

Now enrolling:

10/14/24 Apply Date
10/27/24 Class Starts
TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition Deadline
Fall A9/1/248/19/248/26/248/28/249/10/24
Fall B10/27/2410/14/2410/21/2410/23/2411/5/24
Spring A1/12/2512/27/251/6/251/8/251/21/25
Spring B3/9/252/24/253/3/253/5/253/18/25
Summer A5/11/254/28/255/5/255/7/255/20/25
Summer B7/6/256/20/256/26/257/1/257/15/25
Fall A8/31/258/18/258/25/258/27/259/9/25
Fall B10/26/2510/20/2510/20/2510/22/2511/4/25

Now enrolling:

Apply Date 10/14/24
Class Starts 10/27/24

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Admissions

Check out what you need to apply to the sales certificate program

Our streamlined admissions process makes it easy for you to get started right away. Please read the admission requirements to ensure you qualify for our professional sales graduate certificate.

  • Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution
  • 2.75 undergraduate GPA
  • No GMAT required

Application Requirements

  • Professional resume
  • Contact information for two professional references
  • $78 application fee
  • Short-answer questions, limit to 1200 characters/about 200 words (Note: counter in the system counts characters):
    • How will this graduate certificate contribute to your personal or professional growth?
    • As a graduate student, what do you aspire to contribute to the certificate courses and your fellow students?

Transcripts

Please submit transcripts from all colleges attended. We will accept unofficial transcripts at the time of application; however, official transcripts will need to be submitted before the end of the first term in the program. St. Cloud State staff will download official transcripts for graduates of St. Cloud State and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.

Non-St. Cloud State/Minnesota State transcripts may be ordered through the records office and delivered electronically to:

  • Parchment – St. Cloud State University >> Graduate Admissions
  • National Student Clearinghouse – St. Cloud State University >> Graduate Admissions

Official paper and international transcripts may be mailed to:

School of Graduate Studies
720 4th Ave S
St. Cloud, MN 56301

Courses

Explore a wide range of topics in the sales certificate courses

To earn the Graduate Certificate in Professional Sales online, you must complete three courses (nine credit hours).

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course presents the business-to-business professional selling process as well as specific effective communication processes. The course includes experiential learning activities focusing on real-world business-to-business sales situations.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Sales management focuses on the strategic management of a modern organization’s sales operations, and the applications of sales techniques to increase net sales and profit. This course will present theoretical elements of sales management, develop analytical techniques for sales programs, link sales strategies to customer relationship management, and reflect on the decisions and tasks of modern sales managers.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Experiential learning in the world of Business-to-Business professional selling. Technology use and social media, negotiation, and global/cultural understanding to create and maintain long-term relationships with clients.
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