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Professional Certificates in Brand Protection
The A-CAPP Center’s Professional Certificate in Brand Protection offers online, self-guided courses designed to help learners understand how brands are protected across today’s global marketplace. Courses cover the foundations of brand protection, including prevention, investigations, enforcements, and emerging risks, with content informed by real-world challenges faced by brands, industry, and government.
- Online, self-paced courses
- Foundational and applied brand protection topics
- Practical insights informed by research and industry experience
- Designed for professionals working across industries and sectors
Student Internship Program
The A-CAPP Center Student Program gives students hands-on exposure to brand protection and anti-counterfeiting through research, education, and real-world experience. Students work alongside the Center’s team and partner to build practical skills, explore career paths, and gain experience that prepares them for roles across industry, government, and law.
- Hands-on experience through research and outreach projects
- Exposure to real-world brand protection challenges
- Mentorship from the A-CAPP Center team and partners in the field
- Opportunities to build skills for careers in brand protection and related fields
Advanced and Customized Professional Development Courses
Our advanced and customized professional development courses are designed around the specific needs of your organization. Working closely with companies and teams, the Center develops tailored programs that can dive deeper into topics covered by our foundational certificate programs, tailored by industry or type of organization.
- Customized training built around your organization’s needs
- Topics spanning counterfeiting, risk assessment, and investigations
- Collaborative program design with the A-CAPP Center’s experts
- Practical, real-world insights for brand protection teams
Brand Protection Experience, SSC 490
The Brand Protection Experience is a for-credit, in-person experiential course that gives students real-world exposure to counterfeiting and brand protection challenges. Through coursework, mentorship, and engagement with industry and government professionals, students gain practical insight into how brands protect products and consumers, while exploring career paths across this multidisciplinary field.
- Real-world experience through projects, mentorship, and coursework
- Exposure to professionals across industry, government, and law enforcement
- Hands-on learning focused on counterfeiting and brand protection challenges
- Academic certificate paired with experiential, career-focused training
- Offered in Spring 2026 by instructor Tom Nichols
Academic Courses in Brand Protection
The A-CAPP Center’s academic courses introduce students to the foundations of brand protection through research-driven, real-world content in MSU academic programs. Courses explore how brands protect products, consumers, and supply chains, while building the knowledge needed for experiential learning and future careers in the field.
