MSc Project Management

Effective project management is the key to the success of organisations across all sectors. This flexible course provides you with a multidisciplinary professional skill set including planning and resource management while building your transferable skills in areas like communication teamwork and leadership.

The course provides a platform for you to develop the advanced theoretical and practical skills you need to perform successfully at a senior management level. You study the management of challenging projects – including projects for global companies over international boundaries - on a course developed with professional bodies and leading specialists ensuring your learning reflects current and best practice.

Thanks to our practice-based approach you develop your skills via all-important real-life experience of managing real projects. This approach enables you to use and critically assess your learnt knowledge of project management methodologies theories issues tools and techniques.

Why choose this course?

• Start when it most suits you with six entry points through the year; every taught unit is delivered in a six-week block
• Access valuable PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation and Practitioner training
• Analyse client requirements in the Project Management Practice unit and manage a real project
• Work in teams to deliver solutions to project management problems and projects enhancing your collaborative interpersonal and leadership skills
• Explore international approaches to project management practice such as the widely used Project Management Body of Knowledge developed in the USA by the Project Management Institute
• Learn how project management can incorporate sustainable business solutions
• Participate in APM events and guest lectures
• In your final project choose to undertake either a business dissertation or business live project