Master of Business Administration in Project Management

Program Overview

Master of Business Administration in Project Management

Project managers supervise staff and allocate resources to ensure the correct and timely completion of work. Unlike departmental managers who oversee the same employees working on essentially the same tasks every day, project managers typically take charge of a diverse group for the duration of a particular project. Afterwards they move on to another project that will probably involve a different staff and different tasks, at least in part.

Projects and project management has become the foundation for success in the public and private sectors. Enterprises achieve their goals through projects and effective project management. Successful project management requires achieving the scope (e.g., intended result), cost and schedule. In addition, the increasing complexity of work and demands for .more with less. place special demands on the project manager.

The MBA in Project Management programs go beyond the .What is project management and practices. to providing practical .How To. guidance, tools and techniques, and processes to implement in today.s working world. The programme help candidates to have pledged time, energy and effort to the project management profession. This overt evidence of a commitment to the profession can lead to opportunities in the corporate domain, increased responsibilities and a growth in earnings.

The MBA in Project Management programme also comprises of directing projects allowing experienced senior managers and executives to acquire new skills and advanced techniques in managing and controlling today.s complex project and management issues . from managing risks and quality to managing scope and budgets.

MBA Degree Requirement

Applicants must have a recognized Bachelor degree in any discipline from an accredited college or university; Postgraduate Diploma or a recognized Graduate Certificate; or a recognized Diploma and 2 years work experience.

Delivery Mode

E-Learning - Self Paced

Program Learning Outcome

  •  1) Understand what is meant by a project
  • 2) Identify benefits of projects
  • 3) Identify the phases of a project.s life cycle
  • 4) Enhance your ability to sell ideas and make presentations
  • 5) Prioritize projects
  • 6) Begin conceptualizing your project, including goals and vision statements
  • 7) Use a target chart and other planning tools
  • 8) Complete a Statement of Work
  • 9) Understand what is meant by a project.
  • 10) Recognize what steps must be taken to complete projects on time and on budget.
  • 11) Have a better ability to sell ideas and make presentations.
  • 12) Know simple techniques and tools for planning and tracking your project.
  • 13) Have methods for keeping the team focused and motivated.
  • 14) Identify your project.s tasks and resources
  • 15) Order tasks using the Work Breakdown Structure
  • 16) Schedule tasks effectively
  • 17) Use basic planning tools such as a Gantt chart, PERT diagram, and network
  • 18) Prepare a project budget
  • 19) Modify the project budget and schedule to meet targets
  • 20) Identify and manage risks
  • 21) Develop a change control process
  • 22) Execute and terminate a project
  • 23) Think critically when choosing a project team
  • 24) Make the best of an assigned project team
  • 25) Help teams move through various stages to become a high-functioning machine
  • 26) Maximize productivity at team meetings
  • 27) Reward and motivate your team
  • 28) Develop and execute a communication plan
  • 29) Communicate with sponsors and executives more effectively
  • 30) Identify problem team members and strategies for working with them
  • 31) Identify different types of teams.
  • 32) Build teamwork by recognizing and tapping into the twelve characteristics of an effective team.
  • 33) Promote trust and rapport by exploring your team player style and how it impacts on group dynamics.
  • 34) Recognize the key elements that move a team from involvement to empowerment and how to give these elements to your team.
  • 35) Develop strategies for dealing with team conflict and common situations.
  • 36) Understand how action planning and analysis tools can help your team perform better.
  • 37) The value of working as a team
  • 38) How to develop team norms, ground rules, and team contracts
  • 39) Their team player style and how it can be used effectively
  • 40) Ways to build team trust
  • 41) The stages of team development and how to help a team move through them
  • 42) The critical role communication skills will play in building and maintaining a team atmosphere
  • 43) Ways that team members can be involved and grow in a team setting
  • 44) Define risk and risk management
  • 45) Describe the COSO ERM cube and ISO 31000
  • 46) Establish a risk management context
  • 47) Describe the 7 R.s and 4 T.s that form the framework of risk management activities
  • 48) Design and complete a basic risk assessment
  • 49) Determine the appropriate response to risks and create a plan for those responses
  • 50) Describe the key components of reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of a risk management program
  • 51) Assign people to an appropriate crisis team role
  • 52) Conduct a crisis audit
  • 53) Establish the means for business continuity
  • 54) Determine how to manage incidents
  • 55) Help your team recover from a crisis
  • 56) How to apply the process
  • 57) Better organize yourself and your workspace for peak efficiency.
  • 58) Understand the importance of, and the most useful techniques for, setting and achieving goals.
  • 59) Identify the right things to be doing and develop plans for doing them.
  • 60) Learn what to delegate and how to delegate well.
  • 61) Take control of things that can derail your workplace productivity.
  • 62) Learn ways to prioritize, plan, and manage your time.
  • 63) Identify your primary leadership style and techniques for maximizing that style.
  • 64) Develop more flexibility to use other leadership styles.
  • 65) Search for ways to overcome communication barriers.
  • 66) Determine ways you can meet the needs of employees and co-workers through communication and coaching.
  • 67) Explore ways to engage in productive rather than toxic debate, and to make conflict a powerful force for creative, well-rounded solutions to problems.
  • 68) Define self-leadership and what it means on an individual level
  • 69) Assume responsibility for their results by understanding who they are, what they want, and how to reach they goals
  • 70) Describe the four pillars of self-leadership
  • 71) Use techniques related to adjusting to change, cultivating optimism, and developing good habits to build self-leadership
  • 72) Identify common communication problems that may be holding you back
  • 73) Develop skills to ask questions that give you information you need
  • 74) Learn what your non-verbal messages are telling others
  • 75) Develop skills in listening actively and empathetically to others
  • 76) Enhance your ability to handle difficult situations
  • 77) Deal with situations assertively
  • 78) Define and create a Work Breakdown Structure
  • 79) Identify and understand task relationships
  • 80) Estimate task durations and determine project duration
  • 81) Construct a network diagram
  • 82) Calculate the critical path of a project
  • 83) Use the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) to create estimates
  • 84) Plan for risks
  • 85) Create a communication plan
  • 86) Effectively allocate project resources
  • 87) Update and monitor the project schedule
  • 88) Define knowledge and knowledge management.
  • 89) Explain the difference between explicit and tacit knowledge.
  • 90) Identify various knowledge management theoretical models.
  • 91) Explain how a properly implemented knowledge management program can improve efficiency.
  • 92) Describe the steps for employing a new knowledge management program in an organization.
  • 93) Identify the required components for implementing a knowledge management framework within an organization.
  • 94) Learn in-depth details of Lifecycle phases and process
  • 95) Use techniques to best align organizational goals with projects and project manager competencies
  • 96) Get the right information to the right people the right way
  • 97) Lean how to better manage project scope
  • 98) Establish valuable project cost management processes
  • 99) The Leadership way to establish personal goals
  • 100) Identify different aspects of culture
  • 101) Identify the differences between culture & civilization
  • 102) Recall ways in which culture manifests
  • 103) Recognize different levels of culture
  • 104) Identify various dimensions of culture
  • 105) Identify what is culture and various cultural differences
  • 106) Recognizing cultural competence
  • 107) Identify culture competence from cultural awareness
  • 108) Identifying ways to acquire cultural competence
  • 109) Identifying ways to achieve cultural competence in an organization.
  • 110) Identify different cultural barriers and ways to overcome them.
  • 111) Identify things to keep in mind during cross-cultural communication
  • 112) Identify ten tips for cross cultural communication
  • 113) Recognize the ways to engage an interpreter
  • 114) Recognize different negotiation methods
  • 115) Recognize various elements of negotiation
  • 116) Recognize cultural dimension of negotiation
  • 117) Identify the cultural effects on Negotiation
  • 118) Identify the ways to develop a negotiation strategy
  • 119) Recognize what, when and why of culture shock
  • 120) Identify the symptoms of culture shock
  • 121) Recognize the various stages of culture shock
  • 122) Identify various stages of adjustment stage with strategies to overcome the adjustment process
  • 123) Identify cultural intelligence




Credit Hours

Credit Requirements

Candidates must complete all the required courses i.e. PPM-001, CPD-001 and CCM (course only). Each course is valued 80, 25 and 15 Learning Hours respectively.

Module 1 - Project Management Fundamentals (Total Learning Hours: 4)

Module 2 - Project Management Training (Total Learning Hours: 7)

Module 3 - Intermediate Project Management (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 4 - Effective Planning & Scheduling (Total Learning Hours: 6)

Module 5 - Advanced Project Management (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 6 - Team Building (Total Learning Hours: 6)

Module 7 - Building Better Teams (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 8 - Risk Management (Total Learning Hours: 4)

Module 9 - Crisis Management (Total Learning Hours: 4)

Module 10 - Time Management (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 11 - Leadership Skills (Total Learning Hours: 8)

Module 12 - Self-Leadership (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 13  -Communication Strategies (Total Learning Hours: 8)

Module 14 - Knowledge Management (Total Learning Hours: 8)

Module 15 - Directing Projects Introduction (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 16 - Aligning Goals, Projects and Competencies (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 17 - Organizing Multi-Project Communications (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 18 - Managing Risk Communications (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 19 - Tools for Managing Multiple Projects (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 20 - Leadership (Total Learning Hours: 5)

Module 21 - Cross Culture Management (Total Learning Hours: 15)

Total Learning Hours: 120

Total Credits: 50


Potential Career Options

The MBA in Project Management degree is a popular area of study equally in business and information technology. Highest level positions are achieved by project supervisors who usually make starting at basic level facility. Both in campuses and online MBA in Project Management degree can show the way to careers like:

  • Industrial administrators
  • Construction executives
  • Project Analyst
  • Manufacturing
  • Project Managers
  • Operations management
  • Software development
  • Information management systems
  • General Manager
  • Regional Director
  • Business Analyst
  • Director of Sales
  • Project Sponsors
  • Project/Business Owners
  • Senior Stake Holders
  • Project Board Members


Exam Information

Exams are online and proctored based, using a webcam and a reliable internet connection exams can be taken anywhere and anytime.

  • PPM-001 exam comprises of 150 questions out of which the candidate needs to score 75% (113 out of 150 correct) to pass.
  • CPD-001 exam comprises of 100 questions out of which the candidate needs to score 80% (80 out of 100 correct) to pass

  • The total duration of PPM-001 exam is 2 hours (120 Minutes)
  • The total duration of CPD-001 exam is 1 hour 10 minutes (70 Minutes)

No external sources of information may be accessed during the exam via ProctorU.

  • If a Candidate does not pass the exam in the second (2nd) attempt, the candidate must wait for a period of at least fourteen (14) calendar days from the date of their attempt to retake the exam for third (3rd) time or any subsequent time.
  • The exam can be taken any number of times.

  • You will get credits only if you pass the exams.
  • Exams can be taken separately (one at a time) and in any sequence to earn a MBA.
  • You may retake any examination as often as necessary

Registration Link

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1 MBA in Project Management (E-Course + Exam Voucher(s)) One (1) Year 3500 USD