Health Care Commercialization Certificate Online
This online certificate program will help you succeed in bringing new healthcare services and products to the marketplace.
Program Overview
See a snapshot for the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online program
Generate technologies and create awareness surrounding innovations that have the potential to significantly improve patient care with the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online at NKU. In this 100% online program, you will learn how to translate fundamental research and development into medical products, services, and procedures that are cost-effective, efficient, and consistent. You will address imperatives that can enhance the public’s access to care while navigating challenges such as constrained funding. This certificate is geared toward medical providers, entrepreneurs, and those who manufacture groundbreaking products within the medical device sector.
Coursework in this online healthcare certificate program focuses on the manufacturing process, understanding healthcare regulations, and utilizing advanced operations management and marketing to improve quality, reduce waste, and increase financial savings when commercializing commodities. You will learn to enable a healthcare revolution that is responsive to legal and regulatory constraints, economic clinical evidence requirements, and reimbursement implications for pricing and product design. An analysis of microeconomics will broaden your knowledge of the behavior of consumers, producers, and insurers in healthcare markets. Your ability to communicate with health professionals will be facilitated by an examination of the linguistic roots used to form complex symptomatic, diagnostic, operative, and therapeutic medical terms.
In this online Health Care Commercialization Certificate program, you will:
- Identify the regulatory, economic, sociopolitical, clinical, and reimbursement constraints within the healthcare industry and for proposed healthcare products
- Create marketing and business plans incorporating the unique challenges of healthcare ventures
- Characterize a development process optimized for creating new healthcare products and services and evaluate its efficacy
- Learn to communicate effectively with healthcare professionals
- Assess, refine, and create a LEAN process to improve quality in healthcare settings
- Identify the regulatory, economic, sociopolitical, clinical, and reimbursement constraints within the healthcare industry and for proposed healthcare products
- Create marketing and business plans incorporating the unique challenges of healthcare ventures
- Characterize a development process optimized for creating new healthcare products and services and evaluate its efficacy
- Learn to communicate effectively with healthcare professionals
- Assess, refine, and create a LEAN process to improve quality in healthcare settings
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Tuition
Pay for your program by the course
The Health Care Commercialization Certificate online program offers the same affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition for in-state and out-of-state students. All fees are included in the total cost. Financial aid may be available to those who qualify. For additional information, visit the Financial Aid section on our FAQ page.
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Required Fees | Total Program with Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Care Commercialization Certificate | $567 | $288 | $10,494 |
Tuition and fees subject to change at any time.
Tuition Breakdown:
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Calendar
Learn our application deadlines and class schedules
With six start dates a year, the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online program is flexible and convenient. View the calendar to find the best start date for you, along with corresponding deadlines.
| Session | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Payment Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 1 | 5/12/25 | 4/30/25 | 5/5/25 | 5/9/25 | 5/12/25 |
| Summer 2 | 6/30/25 | 6/18/25 | 6/23/25 | 6/27/25 | 6/30/25 |
| Fall 1 | 8/18/25 | 8/6/25 | 8/11/25 | 8/15/25 | 8/18/25 |
| Fall 2 | 10/15/25 | 10/2/25 | 10/7/25 | 10/10/25 | 10/15/25 |
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Admissions
Follow these streamlined admission steps for the Health Care Commercialization Certificate
The admission process is the first step toward earning your certificate online.
Admission Requirements:
- 2.5 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale
- Official transcripts of all coursework from accredited institutions
Health Care Commercialization Certificate Online Admission Requirements
- Complete online application for admission
- Pay $40 non-refundable application fee
- If you are an NKU alum or active/veteran military member, your application fee will be waived
- Bachelor’s degree (at minimum) with official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) coursework from accredited institutions
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
Official documents may be mailed or emailed to:
NKU Office of Graduate Education302 Lucas Administrative Center
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Have a question? Call us at 800-985-7215.
Courses
Gain the knowledge you need in these online Health Care Commercialization Certificate courses
Great innovations come from unique insights. Being able to capture and develop those insights is a teachable skill.
Doug Ladd, Professor of Practice & Executive Entrepreneur in Residence
Read MoreIn order to earn the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online, students must complete six courses for a total of 18 credit hours.
