Stackable Online Certificates in Product & Service Innovation
Designed with the working professional in mind.
You’re an innovator and design thinker. You're ready to advance your skills, but you're also busy with your career. Pursue any or all of our certificates on your own time, based on the skills you want to acquire. As you complete each step, you’ll have a Carnegie Mellon University transcript to show for it. Once a certificate is completed, you can return and earn more or work toward a master's degree as long as it's completed within five years of starting the process.
Accelerate your career with the following certificates:
Methods & Tools for Product Innovation
Identify opportunities with promise and develop insightful solutions, informed by design, engineering, and business principles.
Next Offered: Summer 2025.
New Product Management
Sharpen your product management skills and gain fluency in business savvy to deliver meaningful products & services.
Next Offered: Summer 2025.
Product Design Innovation
Turn your ideas into something real with insight from industrial software, product, and UX/UI design.
Next Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2025.
Technology for Product Management
Learn the science, tools, and techniques that underpin today's technology products.
Next Offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2025.
Online Applications are always open, with rolling admission cycles
Complete your application in minutes and receive your admissions decision in days.
Current Admission Cycle: Deadline for Spring 2025
Applications Open: Now
Application Deadline: December 15, 2024
Spring 2025
application deadline: December 1st
enrolled deadline: December 15th
class start: mid-January
Certificates being offered:
Technology for Product Management
Product Design Innovation
Summer 2025
application deadline: December 1st
enrolled deadline: December 15th
class start: mid-January
Certificates being offered:
Methods & Tools for Product Innovation
New Product Management
Fall 2025
Your next career steps— at your pace.
Each certificate is comprised of two sections which may be taken concurrently or sequentially. This means that any certificate may be completed in either one (taking two sections) or two (taking just one section) semesters.
iii Online coursework teaches students to:
- Work alongside professionals from various disciplines including engineering, design, and business
- Address industry and society’s problems through new products
- Tackle complex issues in the product development process
Am I a Good Fit?
The iii's online coursework attracts career-minded individuals who are looking for a flexible learning structure that allows them to go to school and continue working full time.
Highly qualified candidates demonstrate a passion for product & service development, innovation, and/or entrepreneurship and have the following background. Sound like you? Learn more about the admissions process.
Sofia Zertuche
Sofia is currently a Visual Design Manager for MAX at WBD. She has experience working with brands like the Oscars, UEFA Champions League, Barbie, and more!
She's currently pursuing the MIIPS Masters degree and plans to graduate May 2025.
Seth Mitchell
Seth Mitchell is a dynamic professional with a background in software and design with a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. Transitioning into software development at General Motors, Seth now serves as a UI Lead, leveraging his design expertise to create engaging user interfaces for GM's digital platforms.Outside of his role at GM, Seth is the founder of The Blocks, a startup dedicated to building well-designed personal finance apps & resources. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, exploring all things automotive, diving into personal finance and traveling the world.
An Online Student's Perspective
Hear from Teresa Cain, an iii online student, as she discusses the application process, why she decided to pursue the iii online program, and how she offers the advice to prospective students to "just go for it".