The Certificate in Transportation Management, offered by the Lucas Graduate School of Business  and supported by the Mineta Transportation Institute, provides an introduction to the graduate study of transportation management. It is intended primarily for professionals working in the field of transportation who wish to enhance their qualifications for advancement and promotion in their existing agency, or to provide opportunities to advance at other agencies. The program enables students to earn 9 units of course credit that may later be applied to the Master of Science in Transportation Management (MSTM) program.

University Advanced Certificate Requirements​

Advanced certificate programs offers postbaccalaureate students coursework leading to a specific, applied, focused goal. In order to be eligible for admission to an advanced certificate, students complete an intake form or apply through CalState Apply and submit an official transcript(s) (noting the completion of a U.S. bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree from an accredited and/or recognized institution from a foreign country). Students must have a minimum of 2.5 undergraduate GPA.

Students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 in all advanced certificate coursework, with no less than the grade of “C” in any course. A maximum of 4 units of coursework with a grade of “C” can count toward an advanced certificate. A maximum of 4 units of coursework may be repeated. 

The advisor/director of the program is responsible for verifying a student’s satisfactory completion of the academic requirements established for the program and for forwarding a copy of the certificate audit completion form to the Office of Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations. The Office of the Registrar records the completion of the program on the student’s transcript.