MSc Project Management – funding options available

MSc Project Management

Solent University’s project management master’s programme is a professionally tailored course aligned to the Association for Project Management’s Body of Knowledge. You will study different methodologies, techniques and processes of project management and the chance to gain professional qualifications such as Agile Project Management™ (Foundation and Practitioner level)*.

Why Solent University?

• One of the few universities to offer internationally recognised Agile Project Management™
• We offer a range of highly transferable, in-demand industry skills
• Tailored course aligned to APM’s body of knowledge
• Solent University is 11^th in the sector for graduate start-ups (HESA 2022)
• Solent Business School, winner of the Outstanding Higher Education Training Provider of the Year at the CMI Awards 2022, brings businesses to life – our students are entrepreneurial, creative, agile, and digital natives.

Skills

As well as helping to equip students with specialised project management skills, the course also encourages the development of leadership abilities, financial acumen and people management techniques. Students will gain a general understanding of governance, and develop management accounting skills.

Students will also examine the structures and processes necessary for any organisation to deliver a project effectively, explore the theories that have created advances in the fields of organisational behaviour, human resource management and leadership, and learn the Agile Project Management methodology, specifically the proven DSDM Atern framework.

Industry links

The MSc Project Management course is delivered by a team of academics with strong links to the project management profession and the wider industry. The course content aligns with requirements for the Association for Project Management’s (APM) Body of Knowledge and the University has strong links to APMG-International, ensuring the course team and students are kept fully up to date with current trends in project management.  This will put you in an excellent position to start, or further, a career in project management.

Funding options

We have several academic scholarships available which are rewarded based on your entry grades. We also offer a sport scholarship to those competing at national or international level in their sport.

Find out more about the course

• MSc Project Management

Open events

We host a number of campus open days, here in Southampton, and virtual webinars (with a live Q&A) throughout the year for you to find out more about postgraduate study, funding, career and learning support, our courses and the Solent experience.

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