University of North Dakota Courses & Fees

With UND's bachelor of accounting, you'll have business experience and skills that are in demand.

You'll select one of two accounting tracks:

1. The B.Acc. provides graduates with valuable business and accounting skills necessary for numerous business positions. This degree also provides foundational coursework for those who plan to take professional accounting certification exams.
2. The combined B.Acc./M.Acc. program puts you on the fast track. You'll earn both a bachelor's and master's degree in 5 years and prepare for the CPA exam.

Studying Entrepreneurship at UND means learning how to make big ideas come to life. You'll get hands-on experience working with real clients on real projects. You'll learn with those who have started where you are now — and succeeded. UND is one of the best colleges for the B.B.A. with major in Entrepreneurship

But as any successful entrepreneur will tell you, building something built to last takes more than just a concept. It means understanding business inside and out.

As an Entrepreneurship major, you'll be part of UND's Nistler College of Business & Public Administration, the largest business program in the state. Your coursework will build a foundation in marketing, accounting, management, and finance. Faculty have decades of experience in service, retail, international business, manufacturing, and social enterprises.

An organization is only as strong as the people who work for it. UND's Human Resources Management degree will prepare you to recruit, select, compensate, and train employees. You'll learn how HR fits into the big picture of running a business. Decision-making and planning are essential to ensuring your staff shines and works seamlessly within the business. 

Modern organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, are more complex than ever before. Managers must be adept at topics as disparate as ethics, strategy, human resources, finance, supply chain management and globalization. At UND, you'll learn the principles of management while you study all the different aspects of business. Our online and on-campus business students learn how to:

• Analyze data for effective decision making and reporting
• Evaluate performance
• Generate goals and strategies
• Make strategic decisions
• Manage technology, projects, budgets, and work processes
• Motivate and develop employees
• Organize and lead teams
• Understand the unique contributions of effectively managed supply chains

At one time, corporate accountants compiled an organization's financial data, and financial planners used that information to make strategic decisions. Those functions are blurring, though, and the Managerial Finance & Accounting program will put you in a position to take advantage of that shift.

You'll blend a traditional education in corporate accounting with a background in corporate finance theory, financial statement analysis and investments. Ultimately, that will lead to career opportunities in internal management and control, treasury management, and strategic financial management.

You can customize the curriculum to focus on either managerial finance or corporate accounting.

Our on-campus or online marketing degree delivers an extensive understanding of:

• Advertising
• Brand and product management
• Business administration
• Consumer behavior
• Digital marketing
• Integrated marketing communications
• International marketing
• Marketing research and strategy
• Sales

You'll learn to do a social media takeover of a company, and perform brand and market feasibility audits. You'll develop the skills to help clients understand consumer behavior, interpret analytics and boost sales.

The difference between success and failure in business often comes down to the supply chain. When a company can't efficiently deliver its products and services, it is at a disadvantage against one that can. As a student in UND's Operations & Supply Chain Management program, you'll learn to handle the complex challenge of organizing people, technology and materials as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. At the same time, you'll learn to balance relationships between your organization and suppliers, distributors, customers, intermediaries, and service providers. You'll even participate in internationally competitive student case competitions.

UND's accounting graduate program will:

• Prepare you to sit for the CPA exam. UND accounting graduates consistently beat the national average on the CPA exam.
• Meet your needs by offering on-campus and 100% online tracks that align with your career background and interests.
• Help you obtain internships and career placement.

The Health Administration graduate certificate is designed for professionals with diverse backgrounds already in the health care industry or those ready to begin a health care career.

Through this program that can be taken on campus, online or in a hybrid format, you'll take on challenges including:

• The evolution of health systems and the organizational challenges of administration from human resources to management in times of scarce resources.
• Historic and contemporary trends in health care delivery in the United States, including cost-containment issues, access to health care and efforts to reform.
• Aspects of the law related to health care delivery such as compliance, liability and bioethics.
• The economy of health care as a driving force of health care policy in America.

UND offers a non-degree program for non-business majors to learn about business and administrative functions to provide career enhancement.

Studying entrepreneurship at UND means learning how to make big ideas come to life. You'll get hands-on experience working with real clients on real projects, and have an opportunity to learn with men and women who have started where you are now — and succeeded. But as any successful entrepreneur will tell you, building something built to last takes more than just a concept. It means understanding business inside and out.

This program will appear on student transcripts to provide official recognition for completion of this educational experience.

This undergraduate certificate program is primarily directed toward students who want to acquire skills and enhance their qualifications for service in the nonprofit sector. You'll develop a deeper understanding of nonprofit organizations, the role of meeting human needs and the diversity of groups in society. You'll also gain hands-on learning through service work in the community and internships with nonprofit organizations.

The nonprofit administration certificate works well with any major area of study.

Cyber security is an immense priority in today's technology-dependent world. Threats make it essential to have skilled individuals that can protect mission-critical infrastructure, defense technologies and other vital systems from attacks.

With UND's on campus or online cyber security bachelor's degree program, you'll benefit from a degree that:

Allows you to excel in a highly educated technical workforce with cyber-physical security skills

Offers you opportunities to participate in cybersecurity research

Provides the knowledge and technical skills for working in the cybersecurity sector, along with a strong liberal arts foundation for a well-rounded education

Can be customized to focus on specific areas of cybersecurity that interest you the most

As an Information Systems major, you'll build knowledge about databases, networking, operating systems and other technical areas that employers value. You'll also study business, economics, accounting, communications, and other topics that provide the well-rounded background that employers increasingly hope to find.

Internships and opportunities for experiential learning ensure you gain the skills needed to make an immediate contribution wherever you work.

Artificial Intelligence is the study of computing machines that approximate thinking using complex algorithms. In this area, you will develop methods by which computing machines think, and then train those machines using datasets in a particular application area. Once properly trained, the artificial intelligence algorithm can then make automated decisions based on real-time inputs.

Our graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning covers the basics in the field, and utilizes foundational and advanced algorithms. The program is application focused and provides you with a collection of tools that can be taken to the workforce and applied in a variety of application areas.

You will also learn the theoretical aspects of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to enable you to develop custom algorithms for their specific needs.

It's estimated that by 2019 there will be 2.77 billion social network users around the globe. Understanding how people think and behave in these times has to include our online profiles, images, and relationships.

While earning your certificate, you'll study human interactions within:

• Social media
• Mobile technologies
• Video games
• Virtual reality
• Artificial intelligence

You'll explore questions such as how cyber and digital products (e.g., internet, mobile devices, social media) are shaping our culture and society.

Whether called behavioral design, product psychology or behavioral science, there's never been this level of interest, excitement or opportunities to understand human behavior and use this knowledge to change how people live. From the highest levels of government to the C-suite, behavioral science is being applied in the real world and tackling big problems.

Combining an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with UND's Master's in Biomedical Engineering (M.S.) gives you the opportunity to focus your interests on medical devices, computer programming or another area that excites you.

The Computer Science or Electrical Engineering undergraduate programs are offered on campus or online. Qualified students can apply for entry to the master's program after completing 90 credits. You may be able to complete the requirements for both degrees in about 5 years.

Courses needed to complete the M.S. are also offered both on campus and online. Even if you choose to participate online, you'll enjoy the same attention from faculty and in-class interaction you're used to receiving while here.

Create the next generation of medical devices by bridging the gap between engineering and medicine. From amazing medical technology featured in sci-fi movies, to the futuristic-like devices in today's most advanced hospitals, you'll fuse engineering and medicine to imagine tomorrow's innovations.

You'll be a part of collaborative biomedical research and device development team in the College of Engineering & Mines. You'll gain the expertise to help create new medical devices that improve the healthcare outcomes of lives all around the world.

Biomedical engineers create life-saving devices that can create:

• Artificial organs
• Automate monitoring of vitals
• Assist in surgeries
• Simulate procedures
• Exciting medical advancements once considered science fiction

Chemical engineers transform substances and solve problems in a broad range of industries. They help make products and processes faster, safer, more reliable and sustainable. In UND's chemical engineering undergraduate program, you'll:

• Learn the fundamentals of the physical sciences, math and chemical engineering.
• Participate in a hands-on lab sequence that relates course content to real-world applications.
• Design, conduct and analyze your own experiments.

All major industries benefit from innovations in chemical engineering. If you're looking for a combined degree program to ultimately achieve your master's degree, this program offers you the high-level knowledge and technical expertise to make a significant progress in your chemical engineering career.

This UND graduate program is focused on giving you the real-world expertise to:

• Learn the technical skills to become a more proficient researcher, with the ability to formulate, assess and effectively communicate a hypothesis
• Gain proficiency in design, with the ability to solve complex chemical engineering problems.
• Be prepared for a career in industry, government, or pave the way to a profession in teaching on your way to pursuing a doctoral degree.

Civil engineers have a direct impact on the world. They create and improve the way we move, interact and live in our communities. Civil engineering combines planning and designing in the office, with hands-on project management in the field.

With UND's Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, you'll weave teamwork, problem solving and design exercises together. You will:

• Gain the ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering to the field of civil engineering.
• Conduct experiments to prove or disprove engineering theories or designs.
• Gain expertise with computer software and other innovative engineering technologies.
• Develop critical thinking skills needed to excel in a changing workplace.