Scholarships
THERE ARE Approximately 50 SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE TO Food, beverage & Goods certificate STUDENTS!
Use PSU Scholarship Universe to submit a scholarship application. Incoming and continuing PSU students are eligible to apply for scholarships through PSU's Scholarship Universe. Students must file an admissions application with the university. Within 48 hours after a student has submitted an application, they can access the Scholarship Universe platform.
Deadline for scholarship submission is May 1.
| Food Industry Leadership |
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| Inspirator's Endowed | Food Industry Leadership |
| General - The School of Business |
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| Michael R. Gaines Endowed -Undergraduate | Tax Executive Institute | John Andrew Funk Endowed | Aherne Family | COMP Endowed |
| Pathways to the Future - Fred Meyer Fund | The Gary and Carla Cumpston | Thrasher Family Scholarship | Boeing | Demorest Family |
| Greg and Terry Ness Graduate Fund | The Owens Family Endowed - Undergraduate | Verne and Marjorie Rupp Endowed | Braun Entrepreneurship | Demorest Family Full-Time Student |
| PSU Beta Alpha Psi Epsilon Alpha Leader's | Bartsch Family Scholarship - Undergraduate Junior or Senior | Viking Engineering and Construction - Junior or Senior Level Undergraduate | Carl Burgdorfer CFA Society of Portland - Senior Class Standing | Franklin Bauer Memorial - Undergraduate |
| Retail Controllers SB Endowed - Upper Division | Gary C. Homsley Endowed Accounting | W.D. Hershey Memorial Fund Endowed | NW Natural Sustainable Business Endowed | Gaye and James Richardson Endowed - Undergraduate |
| School of Business Daimler Truck | Columbia Sportswear Athletic & Outdoor - Undergraduate | Willamette Industries Endowed | Cascade Spirits Fund | Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Endowed Fund |
| School of Business Endowed Faculty | Out in Business | Zeliha Erdogan Scholarship in Business | Ike Nizam Foundation - Undergraduate | Gloria J. Tipton Endowed |
| US Bank - ATMOS Program | Schlesinger Family Foundation Endowed | A-Dec Endowed Business | Iverson Family Business - Undergraduate | Herbert Retzlaff Endowed - Undergraduate |
| Jackie Bell Endowed | | | | |
| Hardship Funds |
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| Boyle Fund for Pathway Student Assistance | Renaissance Foundation Pathways Student Assistance |
| SBA Need Based Fee Remission | The School of Business Fund |
Add value to your business degree with a specialization in food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods.
Portland is known for its food, wine, and craft brews, which is why Portland State University’s Food, Beverage & Goods Leadership Certificate is positioned to prepare students for an array of careers in this dynamic industry.
Developed in collaboration with industry leaders, including Kroger, Fred Meyer, and Albertsons Safeway, the Food, Beverage and Goods Leadership Certificate adds a multifaceted specialization to your business degree. You’ll gain versatile skills that apply in many industries beyond food and beverage, building expertise in retailing, marketing, distribution, and more.
PSU has deep connections in Portland’s world-class retail sector, enabling you to build your professional network quickly. Our Food, Beverage and Goods Leadership Certificate can put you on the fast track to a management job, or prepare you to launch your own food, beverage, or goods business.
- Unique location. Portland is known as a food hub offering an amazing culinary experience and access to a diversity of start-up and established companies. The region offers advantages few cities can match, including world-class sectors in retail, consumer goods, and international trade. There’s no better place to study the food and beverage industry.
- Advanced real-world experience. The food, beverage and goods program benefits from strong industry participation in the classroom and the marketplace, leading to exceptional opportunities for students and alumni. You’ll have the chance to learn from industry leaders and innovators, acquiring workplace knowledge and experience that will bolster your resume and skill set. PSU’s Center for Retail Leadership offers student delegation experiences, including an immersive, all-expense-paid trip to the Private Label Manufacturers Association’s (PLMA) trade show in Chicago, Illinois.
- On-campus creativity. The Center for Retail Leadership serves as a proving ground by facilitating creative collaborations between students and industry partners. Experiences range from our pop-up shop experiment to market tests, brand building, new product rollouts, advertising, and more. Our student organization, the Crave Network, sponsors informal networking and educational events both on and off-campus to connect students with food, beverage, and packaged goods professionals.
- Expert faculty. Our Food, Beverage and Goods Leadership Certificate is taught by industry leaders and veterans. They bring an informed, first-hand perspective into the classroom, sharing knowledge and experience that goes way beyond the classroom.
Food, Beverage and Goods Leadership Certificate Highlights
The program offers targeted, marketable expertise for anyone who seeks a career in the food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods industry, including aspiring entrepreneurs who hope to launch their own company. The credential can help you pursue a broad range of career pathways. Possibilities include:
- Marketing
- Supply and logistics
- Retailing
- HR Management/Recruitment
- Buying
- Merchandising
- Distribution
Food, Beverage and Goods Leadership Certificate Curriculum
This is not a stand-alone program, but rather a supplementary credential that you earn in conjunction with a business major in marketing, finance, supply, and logistics or another specialized discipline. The program consists of five courses (20 credits) including three required courses, and two electives.
The best way to get started is to schedule a meeting with your academic advisor to discuss how to plan ahead and integrate certificate courses into your educational plan. Explore current requirements.
Pathways
Communications, Psychology and Graphic Design students: you can combine your major and passion to explore a diversity of career opportunities in the exciting and dynamic food, beverage and goods industry. Certificate courses deliver current industry insights, trends, and case studies. You'll develop project work and a network of industry contacts that you can leverage during your job search. View pathways requirements and schedules.
More Information
Contact the Executive Director of the Center for Retail Leadership, Lindsey Morse at lindseym@pdx.edu
ACCREDITATION & RANKINGS
Portland State University is fully accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).
One of less than 200 business schools worldwide — top 1% — to be accredited in both business and accounting by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). AACSB is the elite business school accreditation known internationally.