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Ensure Success in Today’s Global Economy!

Earn Your Certificate Online
Globalization has magnified the need for business professionals equipped with an international mindset. No matter what the business or industry, professionals need to be able to lead global organizations, apply their business knowledge to a wide variety of social and political settings and communicate with people from diverse cultures. It’s this kind of global perspective that’s critical to success in today’s business world.

Thunderbird — #1 in Global Business
Thunderbird, top ranked in the field of international business, has been dedicated to educating students on the global mindset since 1946. Today, professionals can take advantage of Thunderbird’s expertise, completely online, and earn a recognized global business education from the very best!

A “Truly Global” Education
Thunderbird offers international executive certificate programs in marketing or management and a series of certificate courses that prepares you to do business in key emerging markets. Each program delivers a progressive curriculum for individuals and organizations from the top leaders in international business education — 100% online.

Executive Certificate in International Management
Global Management
Global Leadership
Global Strategy Implementation

Executive Certificate in International Marketing
Global Marketing Strategy
Global Marketing Management
Global Brand Management

Doing Business in Emerging Markets Series
Doing Business in China
Doing Business in India
Doing Business in Russia
Doing Business in Latin America
Multicultural Negotiations

Thunderbird’s certificate programs are uniquely qualified to provide the edge you and your company need – not simply to keep pace with change, but to help set the pace as you gain valuable skills online. These programs are open to anyone interested in improving organizational management tools and skills, building innovative marketing practices for global success, or learning how to conduct business in the world’s fastest-growing emerging markets.

About Thunderbird School of Global Management

Established in 1946, Thunderbird was the first school to focus exclusively on international business education, as well as the first to recognize that the emerging global economy — a complex, continually flowing and constantly evolving network of information, goods, cultures and people — would be led by a new breed of global business managers. Over sixty years later, Thunderbird is still the best in the business of graduating global leaders. For more than a decade, Thunderbird has been ranked the #1 Graduate Program in International Business by U.S. News & World Report. In addition, Thunderbird has been consistently ranked #1 in International Business by The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Survey of Corporate Recruiters and #1 in International Business by Financial Times.

Thunderbird School of Global Management is accredited by:

  • The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International is the primary accrediting association for American schools of business)
  • The North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA is the primary accrediting agency for schools in its region of the United States)


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Who Should Enroll

Professionals who want to:

Acquire global leadership skills

Develop a more sophisticated perspective on the fundamental factors driving today’s global business economy

Obtain high-level decision-making tools for increased job performance

Gain a greater understanding of other cultures, regions and markets and how they impact important business decision-making processes

Build upon their foundation of knowledge in order to become a recognized global expert in their organization or industry

Lead their organization to success in the global marketplace


What Students Are Saying

“My son and home are in Vienna, Austria. My parents live in Denver, CO, USA. And my work often involves projects in Africa. Wherever life takes me, I just pack up my studies and go. It’s the ultimate in distance learning.”

L. Illichmann, Vienna, Austria


Program Schedule

All classes begin the 1st of each month.


Special Distinctions

U.S. News & World Report
- #1, International Business, USA (for more than a decade!)

The Wall Street Journal
- #1, International Business, USA, (The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Survey of Corporate Recruiters)

BusinessWeek
- #1, Global Business, Executive MBA Program, Worldwide
- Top 50, Full-Time MBA Program (fifth consecutive time)
- Top 10, "Best & Brightest," Global Scope

Financial Times
- #1, International Business, MBA Programs, Worldwide
- #5, Executive Education Programs, Custom programs, USA
- #8, Executive Education Programs, Custom programs, Worldwide
- #10, Executive Education Program, Overall, Worldwide
- #15, Executive Education, Open Enrollment, Worldwide

América Economía
- #1, Inter-Cultural Management, Worldwide