Expand your career opportunities with UCI's Accelerated Certificate Program (ACP)
Are you ready to design the next great product or service? This program is for students who want to learn how to conceptualize new product ideas or creative updates to existing products, whether in a corporate or entrepreneurial setting. Learn how to organize, pitch, and implement your big ideas while deepening your understanding of how innovation is essential to business growth.
Study at a Top 10 U.S. Public University with industry professionals in beautiful Southern California.
Bonus: If you study at UCI, gain a competitive edge in the global Product Development job market through an internship with a U.S. company.
Experience the unique academic and social life at the University of California, Irvine with comprehensive support and abundant campus resources. Join students from the U.S. and around the world as you gain invaluable skills to help you succeed in today’s global environment.
Learn how to design new or updated products, services or processes to fulfill unmet needs
Hone your entrepreneurial vision, whether you want to work for yourself or a company
Develop skills to analyze the viability of a new product or innovation
Gain confidence working with teams across the many stages of product or service innovation
Study with industry professionals and build your network with classmates and colleagues
Study on campus in Southern California environment in the safest big city in the U.S.
Enrolling at UCI gives you more than just a great academic program; students can expect a full range of support services to make their time with us as productive and fulfilling as possible.
For students looking to pursue a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate’s degree in the United States and want to benefit from expert guidance and assistance in the process.
Professionals and students will experience professional training by skilled field instructors and then have the opportunity to practice in a U.S. business environment. Select the program that best coincides with your academic or professional aspirations.
UCI is renowned for its strength as a major research university. Its world-renowned reputation has also attracted faculty members from the top of their fields, including three Nobel Prize winners.
We are located in a dynamic U.S. business environment and in one of the most beautiful and engaging regions in Southern California — famously known as "The O.C."
Living in Irvine for me was a huge experience, and it was a lot of fun. UCI is one of the top universities in the United States, you get to put that on your resume. At the end, you really learn and put to practice what you’ve seen or looked for. I’ve had huge opportunities I couldn’t have had in my country; UCI really changed my life.
Accelerated Certificate Program
Expand your career options by enrolling in an international program at UCI — where you’ll develop the skills, knowledge, and network you need to expand your horizons and opportunities.
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