Ensure quality products and services consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. With a minor in quality assurance and management, you'll learn quality concepts, principles and tools.
Why Minor in Quality Management and Assurance?
The importance of quality cannot be overstated. In our global economy, businesses manufacture products or provide services from all over the world. By minoring in quality management and assurance, you will learn how to ensure that clients receive orders on time, within budget and with consistent quality.
Because quality management and control can be applied to many industries, this minor will be useful for careers in a variety of industries such as aerospace, electronics, healthcare, transportation, education and government or nonprofit organizations.
Why Study Quality Management and Assurance at CSUN?
Experienced Faculty
Our faculty are committed to excellence in teaching and research. Our professors have advanced degrees in business analytics, information systems, operations management, supply chain management, management science or a closely related area, along with extensive business experience. Their business experience is incorporated into their teaching to make you ready for your future career opportunities.
Bigger and Better
Because the Quality Management and Assurance minor is part of the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics, you will have access to more resources, world-class faculty and state-of-the-art facilities. We're one of the largest business schools in the country, with 7,000 students and an alumni network of more than 50,000.
What You'll Learn
As a Quality Management and Assurance minor, you will take core classes and elective classes. You will have the knowledge and skills to ensure quality goods and services.
In your classes, you will learn about:
- Business organization and business statistics
- Quality principles
- Quality assurance and control, including ISO 9000 certification
- Total quality management
- Six Sigma
- Various quality tools
- Design and control of operations systems
- Creating value for the customer
- Project management
- Supply chain and inventory management, including global logistics
Minor Eligibility
This minor is open to many majors and is especially appropriate for people looking into service and manufacturing organizations.
This minor is not available to students majoring in Business Administration with an option in either Global Supply Chain Management or Systems and Operations Management.