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University of Westminster Project Management MSc
University of Westminster

Project Management MSc

London, United Kingdom

1 Years

English

Full time

01 Jul 2025

Jan 2025

GBP 19,000 / per year *

On-Campus

* international | UK: £16,500

Introduction

Project management, as a profession, has undergone rapid transformation in the last 20 years. The ever-growing consumer demand for complex, customised goods and services and the evolution of worldwide competitive markets for their production and distribution have increased the need for agile project managers who understand organisational issues and human behaviour and have the skills to organise the delivery of such products.

Accredited by both the Association of Project Management (APM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI), our Master’s degree recognises that in today’s competitive business environment, effective project management is integral to success in all sorts of industries and sectors.

Skills in planning, benefits management, quality management, risk control, and communication are essential to the smooth running of projects ranging from large-scale operational changes in multinationals to the running of hospitals and universities, government policies, engineering projects or one-off launches by fashion houses, advertising agencies and film productions.

Studying strategic and practical approaches, this course is designed to equip you with a set of tested skills for planning, delegating, monitoring and controlling projects in a traditional and agile way. The syllabus is informed by APM’s five dimensions of professionalism and PMI’s Talent Triangle®, which are widely accepted as best practices in the area of project management. It will give you the knowledge and tools to help implement strategies for change, in a responsible and sustainable way, in order to influence progress within a company or organisation. You'll also learn the governance framework of running a project and how to handle the associated risks – with the opportunity to attain the much sought-after PRINCE2® Foundation or AgilePM® Foundation certification at no extra cost.

You’ll be taught by a teaching team which combines academic and professional training skills, most of whom either hold a PhD or are accredited professional trainers on such courses as PRINCE2®, AgilePM®, Management of Risk (M_o_R®) and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®).

We’ll bring you up-to-date project management practice, trends and issues – in recent months, for example, the coronavirus pandemic has shown how important the profession is in steering the expanding, uncertain, volatile global world we live in. At a time of change, project managers have the skills to ensure this change leads to better, more sustainable, equitable solutions that are beneficial to the widest possible range of stakeholders.

Top reasons to study with us

  • Suitable for graduates in business, computing and engineering and those with an affinity for organising or running projects. Taught by staff who are also professionally certified project management trainers.
  • Opportunity to gain PRINCE2® Foundation or AgilePM® Foundation certification at no extra cost.
  • Curriculum informed by best practice: APM’s five dimensions of professionalism and PMI’s Talent Triangle®.
  • Exposure to project management industry standards, including the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition and PMI’s PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition.
  • We are active members of the Responsible Project Management community.

Why study this course?

  • Develop the key skills
    Experience a variety of industry-standard project management tools and gain PRINCE2® Foundation or AgilePM® Foundation certification.
  • Combine theory and practice
    Link theory to global practice through real-life case studies and guest lectures.
  • Taught by experts
    Learn from expert staff who are themselves professionally certified project management trainers.

Professional accreditation

This course is accredited by the Association of Project Management (APM), the chartered body for the project profession in the UK. This gives you free annual student membership of APM and access to project management knowledge resources, journals and networking opportunities at APM events.

Additionally, the Project Management MSc is accredited by the PMI Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC). Graduates of PMI/GAC accredited programme are granted substantial credit toward the experience requirement when they complete an application for any PMI certification. A 12-month reduction for professional experience is applied for PMI certifications in PMP®, PgMP®, PfMP®, PMI-RMP® and PMI-SP®. Our students have access to PMI professional development resources such as online courses, career seminars and network with project professionals during PMI events, some of which are regularly hosted at this University.

Westminster Business School is an Accredited Training Organisation for AgilePM®, PRINCE2®, M_o_R® and MSP.

In 2021, we became a University Partner Program for Scrum.org. Our curriculum integrates the philosophy of Agile and Scrum. Students will have access to the Scrum.org certification assessment in Professional Scrum MasterTM (PSM I) .

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