Expand Your Areas of Expertise with Our Online Programs
Live online or self-paced, our online executive education programs enable you to gain knowledge or expand your areas of expertise from virtually anywhere. Connect with Rice’s world-renowned faculty and peers across the globe to expand your leadership.
Upcoming Dates: February 26, 2025
Format: Online
Gain an introduction to the current commercial real estate and development market. Over the course of eight weeks, you’ll explore the concepts and techniques used to analyze real estate assets and the instruments commonly used to finance these assets. You’ll also learn to personally analyze and identify commercially viable real estate for development.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
Gain the tools to facilitate diversity and activate inclusivity as strategic imperatives. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll develop a plan based on a diversity-needs analysis of your company. In addition, you’ll learn to mitigate workplace bias and overcome barriers to diversity using discrimination-reduction tactics, as well as discover organizational recruitment strategies to attract and retain a diverse workforce.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
Build your confidence as an entrepreneur, from ideation to drafting your business plan. This is an online course designed to equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the essential knowledge and skills required to turn innovative ideas into successful and sustainable ventures.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
Enhance your skills as an investor or an analyst, from pulling a firm’s financial statements to conducting both basic and advanced ratio analysis.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
Strengthen your skills as an investor or an analyst by forecasting a company's financial statements and leveraging those forecasts to determine the firm's value.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
Get the strategic and practical knowledge to take your new product or business to market. This is an online course designed to show aspiring entrepreneurs how to position their small business for market relevance, audience resonance, and competitive differentiation from the get-go.
Upcoming Dates: August 2023 - April 2024
Format: In-person
Application deadline: May 24 (apply here)
CoachRICE – presented by Doerr Institute for New Leaders – helps you develop coaching skills to be more collaborative with your team and direct reports. The program combines extensive coach training with practicum hours to provide a robust experience as well as prepare you to earn your certification as a leadership coach.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
Build your quantitative skills with our Business Finance, Accounting and Data Analysis courses. Whether you need to brush up or learn the essentials, these courses will help you succeed in an MBA program, take your small business to the next level, or earn that promotion you’re looking for. Taught by experienced professors from our top-ranked MBA program, the short course series offers comprehensive resources to build confidence and a deeper understanding of the subjects. You can enroll in all three courses or choose just one.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
The Business Statistics and Analysis Specialization is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of business data analysis tools and techniques. Informed by our world-class Data Science master's and PhD course material, you’ll master essential spreadsheet functions, build descriptive business data measures, and develop your aptitude for data modeling. You’ll also explore basic probability concepts, including measuring and modeling uncertainty, and you’ll use various data distributions, along with the Linear Regression Model, to analyze and inform business decisions. The Specialization culminates with a Capstone Project in which you’ll apply the skills and knowledge you’ve gained to an actual business problem.
Upcoming Dates: Enroll anytime
Format: 100% Online, self-paced
In this four-course Specialization, you’ll learn the essential skills of portfolio management and personal investing.
All investors – from the largest wealth funds to the smallest individual investors – share common issues in investing: how to meet their liabilities, how to decide where to invest, and how much risk to take on. In this Specialization, you will learn how to think about, discuss, and formulate solutions to these investment questions. You will learn the theory and the real-world skills necessary to design, execute, and evaluate investment proposals that meet financial objectives. You will begin with an overview of global financial markets and instruments that characterize the investment opportunities available to today’s investor. You will then learn how to construct optimal portfolios that manage risk effectively, and how to capitalize on understanding behavioral biases and irrational behavior in financial markets. You will learn the best practices in portfolio management and performance evaluation as well as current investment strategies. By the end of your Capstone Project, you will have mastered the analytical tools, quantitative skills, and practical knowledge necessary for long-term investment management success.
