Certified MBA is a professional certification

Professional certification

Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task...

 designed as an "objective measure of a student's grasp of the MBA skill set". It is offered by the International Certification Institute; the exams are administered by Prometric

Prometric

Prometric is a U.S. company in the test administration industry. Prometric operates a test center network composed of over 10,000 sites in 160 countries...

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The CMBA focuses on the "10 key subject areas" comprising the MBA "core curriculum" http://www.certifiedmba.com/exam/CMBA_Exam_Overview_and_Objectives.pdf (Financial Accounting, Management Accounting

Management accounting

Management accounting or managerial accounting is concerned with the provisions and use of accounting information to managers within organizations, to provide them with the basis to make informed business decisions that will allow them to be better equipped in their management and control...

, Quantitative Analysis, Microeconomics

Microeconomics

Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of how the individual modern household and firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Typically, it applies to markets where goods or services are being bought and sold...

, Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of the whole economy. This includes a national, regional, or global economy...

, Finance

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

, Marketing Management

Marketing management

Marketing management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of marketing techniques and the management of a firm's marketing resources and activities...

, Operations Management

Operations management

Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and...

, Organizational Behavior, and Business Strategy).

The certification is incorporated into the Western Governors University

Western Governors University

Western Governors University is a private, nonprofit, American online university with nearly 30,000 students across the United States and in military bases overseas, as of December 2011. It is a competency-based university...

 MBA program http://www.wgu.edu/wgu/prog_guide/MBA_BA.pdf.

See also

• Professional certification (Business)
  Professional certification (Business)
  A professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation is a designation earned by a person to assure that he/she is qualified to perform a job or task. Certifications, generally, need to be renewed periodically, or may be valid for a specific period of time A professional...
  
  
• Chartered Manager
• Certified Business Manager
  Certified Business Manager
  The Certified Business Manager is a credential created and administered by the Association of Professionals in Business Management ....
  
   (CBM)
• Certified Management Consultant
  Certified Management Consultant
  Certified management consultant is an international professional certification for management consulting professionals, awarded by institutes in 46 countries . The CMC enjoys global reciprocity; consultants certified in one country are recognized in most other countries...
  
  
• Certified Manager

External links and references

• certifiedmba.com
• New MBA Certification Exams: Testing What’s Been Learned, and Taught, Selections magazine, gmac.com
• Controversy awaits MBA certification exam, usatoday.com
• 'Certified' MBA Arrives Amid Controversy, Datamation.com