The School offers eight program types spanning foundation study through executive and institutional education. All are non-degree professional-learning programs subject to human academic review. The distinction between program types is not a set of marketing tiers. It is a difference in audience, depth, and what the learner is expected to produce.
Choosing correctly matters. A senior official who enrolls in a foundation course will find it slow; an analyst who starts at executive level will get framing without method. The guide below is organized by who each program is for.
Foundation Programs
For learners new to intelligence and strategic analysis. No prior experience required.
Six offerings: Intelligence Literacy Foundation, Foundations of Strategic Analysis, Introduction to OSINT, Introduction to Political Risk, Foundations of Early Warning, and Intelligence Ethics and Responsibility.
Foundation programs build vocabulary and reasoning habits. Their real function is to make later method courses learnable. A learner who has not internalized the difference between fact, inference, judgment, and assumption cannot productively study structured analytic techniques. Assessment is comprehension plus one short applied exercise.
Professional Certificate Programs
For working professionals who need a documented credential in a defined competency area.
Six tracks: Professional Certificate in Intelligence Analysis; in Open-Source Intelligence and Verification; in Early Warning and Risk Analysis; in Strategic Intelligence; in Information Environment Analysis; and in AI-Assisted Intelligence Analysis.
Each track bundles related courses into a coherent pathway ending in a final applied project. The credential rests on assessed output, not attendance. Requirements, certificate fields, and the verification process are set out in full under professional certificates.
Advanced Professional Programs
For analysts who already have method and want depth.
Five offerings: Advanced Strategic Assessment, Advanced Political Risk Analysis, Advanced OSINT Methodology, Advanced Early Warning Systems, and Advanced Scenario and Foresight Analysis.
Advanced programs assume the structured techniques are already familiar and spend their time on hard cases: contested evidence, conflicting indicators, low-probability high-consequence scenarios, and situations where the honest answer is low confidence. Written output is longer and critiqued more heavily. Prerequisites are enforced.
Executive Programs
For decision-makers and senior leaders who consume analysis rather than produce it.
Six offerings: Strategic Intelligence for Decision Makers, Executive Political Risk Program, Early Warning for Institutional Leaders, Geopolitical Risk for Executives, Intelligence Governance and Responsible AI, and Strategic Foresight for Public Leadership.
Executive programs are compressed and framing-heavy. The competency being built is different: how to task analysis properly, how to read a confidence statement without over-reacting or under-reacting, how to recognize when a briefing is concealing uncertainty, and how to govern an analytical function accountably. These programs deliberately do not attempt to turn executives into analysts.
Institutional Programs
For organizations building analytical capability across a team rather than in one person.
Customizable cohorts are delivered for universities, government agencies, local governments, NGOs, think tanks, research institutes, companies, humanitarian organizations, Islamic institutions, and professional associations.
Institutional delivery includes needs assessment, customized curriculum, private cohorts, a named institutional coordinator, group enrollment, organizational case studies, assessment, participant certificates, and an institutional completion record. The case studies matter more than they sound: a cohort working on its own real problems learns faster than one working on generic examples, and the resulting analysis is usable.
Institutional engagements begin with a scoping conversation rather than a purchase. Enquiries go through the proposal request process, and related advisory work is handled by KBA13 Consulting.
Masterclasses
For practitioners who want concentrated instruction on a single technique or problem.
Masterclasses are short, intensive, and narrow by design. A masterclass covers one thing properly rather than a subject broadly: analysis of competing hypotheses, indicator design, estimative language, narrative mapping, or scenario construction. They suit analysts who have a specific gap rather than a general need, and they are frequently used as refreshers by people who trained years ago.
Short Courses
For learners with limited time who need a defined, useful capability.
Short courses are self-contained and assessed, but scoped to a single competency rather than a pathway. They are the appropriate entry point for professionals whose work touches analysis occasionally: communications staff who must evaluate contested claims, programme officers assessing operating-environment risk, or researchers who need verification discipline without a full OSINT pathway.
Research-Based Programs
For learners producing original analytical work under supervision.
Research-based programs replace taught content with a supervised analytical project. The learner defines a question, builds an open-source evidence base, applies structured methods, and produces an assessment to the School’s analytical standards, including explicit confidence statements and alternative explanations. Supervision is substantive: drafts are challenged, assumptions are surfaced, and weak reasoning is sent back.
These programs suit academics moving into applied analysis, doctoral researchers, and institutional analysts developing an internal assessment capability. Output may be considered for publication through KBA13 Publishing or the Research Center subject to independent review.
Common conditions across all programs
Every program is non-degree. Certificates recognize completion of structured learning and assessed work and confer no academic credit, SKS, ECTS, or government accreditation.
Every program is knowledge-first. Written explanation, frameworks, cases, exercises, and assessment carry the learning; video is supplementary.
Every program is bound by the School’s ethics and legal boundaries. Learners acknowledge those boundaries before undertaking practical analytical work, and violation can result in removal from the program.
Every program requires human academic review. No assessment outcome, certificate, or published analysis is generated automatically.
Courses underlying these programs are listed with codes, levels, and development status in the course catalog, organized by the School’s academic clusters. Pricing is pending owner approval; see the FAQ or read more about the School.