Companies succeed or fail based on their ability to bring quality products and services to market in a timely manner. Without skilled project managers in place, companies are challenged to deliver projects on time, on budget, and according to specifications. From inception to completion, project managers are responsible for every step in the process: project definition, cost and risk estimation, schedule planning and monitoring, budget management, negotiation and conflict resolution, project leadership, and project presentation and evaluation.
The Master of Science in Project Management is designed to provide you with the practical skills and theoretical concepts you need to lead complex projects. Featuring real-world case studies, this project management degree presents techniques and tools for managing long- and short-term projects successfully and cost-effectively. Augmenting the core project management courses are concentrations that seek to provide you with content-specific expertise that enables you to deepen your knowledge in your field of interest.
In October of 2021, the Master of Science in Project Management accreditation was re-affirmed for the maximum five-year accreditation cycle (originally accredited in 2009) by the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC), the world's leading association for project management professionals. Accreditation is achieved by meeting the GAC’s rigorous standards, which include an assessment of program objectives and outcomes, a review of onsite and online resources, evaluations of faculty and students, and proof of continuous improvements in the area of project management.
Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.
Required Courses
Concentrations or Electives Option
The remaining required quarter hours for the program may be completed by a combination of completing a concentration and electives or a combination of electives and any courses listed in the concentrations.
Concentrations
Electives
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| Introduction to Organizational Communication | |
| Foundations of Professional Communication | |
| Negotiation, Mediation, and Facilitation | |
| Intercultural Communication | |
| Organizational Culture, Climate, and Communication | |
| Foundations of Developing Cultural Awareness | |
| Group Dynamics and Interpersonal Conflict: Meeting Management | |
| Writing Lab | |
| Experiential Learning Projects for Professionals | |
| Integrative Experiential Learning | |
| Project Finance | |
| Project Evaluation and Assessment | |
| Managing Troubled Projects | |
| Global Project Management | |
| Project Resource Management | |
| Project Stakeholder Management | |
| Managing Innovation Projects | |
| Leading and Managing Technical Projects | |
| Communication Skills for Project Managers | |
| Leading Remote Project Teams | |
| Introduction to Program and Portfolio Management | |
| Special Topics | |
Program Credit/GPA Requirements
45 total quarter hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required
Agile Project Management Concentration
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| PJM 6205 | Leading and Managing Technical Projects | 3 |
| PJM 6810 | Principles of Agile Project Management | 3 |
| PJM 6815 | Advanced Agile Project Management | 3 |
| PJM 6820 | Agile Implementation and Governance | 3 |
| PJM 6825 | Agile Lean Product Development | 3 |
Analytics Concentration
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| ALY 6000 | Introduction to Analytics | 3 |
| ALY 6010 | Probability Theory and Introductory Statistics | 3 |
| ALY 6015 | Intermediate Analytics | 3 |
| ALY 6070 | Communication and Visualization for Data Analytics | 3 |
| 3 |
| Predictive Analytics | |
| Data Warehousing and SQL | |
| Data Mining Applications | |
| Data Management and Big Data | |
