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.
Spring 2025
Application Deadline:
December 1, 2024
Enrolled Deadline:
December 15, 2024
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Start-Term: Spring 2025
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
(MIIPS Online '25)
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.
Hedy Wang
(MIIPS Online '25)
Hedy is currently a UX Research Consultant at IBM. She has experience working on user research, design strategy, and product innovation across various industries.
She's currently pursuing the MIIPS Master's degree and plans to graduate in Dec 2025.
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".