The Graduate Certificate Program in Textile Supply Chain Management provides NC State graduate students the opportunity to develop recognized academic credentials in this concentration in addition to their major area of graduate study. The Certificate also provides non-degree graduate-level students the opportunity to develop recognized advanced expertise in Textile Supply Chain Management.

Admission

Applicants must meet one of the 3 following requirements:

• Be a graduate of an accredited four-year college or university, and have a GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4-point scale in their last 60 credit hours of undergraduate study; 
• Be a degree student in good standing in a NC State University graduate program; and
• Have a Master’s degree.

Provisional Admission

Applicants who do not meet the GPA requirements may be admitted provisionally based on past work experiences as a professional in textiles or a textile related field. Supporting documentation of professional experience in textiles should be submitted for provisional admission. Students who are admitted provisionally must earn at least a “B” average in the first three courses of the certificate program in order obtain full admission into the certificate program.

Plan Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours	Counts towards
Required Courses
TTM 501	Textile Enterprise Integration	3
TTM 761	Supply Chain Management and Information Technology	3
TE 533	Lean Six Sigma Quality 1	3
or TE 540	Textile Information Systems Design
Select two of the following advanced courses:		6
TTM 530	Textile Quality and Process Control
TTM 583	Strategic Planning for Textile Firms
TTM 588	Global Perspectives in Textiles Supply Chain Management (USA)
Total Hours		15

1	either or both - spare will be used as an "advanced course"