Project Management Graduate Certificate

Offered online and on campus, the Graduate Certificate in Project Management at Boston University’s Metropolitan College (MET) is ideal for project managers, systems analysts, designers, programmers, research managers, and others engaged in the administration of technical projects. By offering proven practices and innovative techniques sought after in multinational industries such as telecom, construction, energy, IT, aerospace and defense, finance, and healthcare, the BU MET Project Management certificate will help you advance and succeed more readily in a variety of professional settings—and can serve as a stepping-stone towards a master’s degree.

In the Project Management graduate certificate program, you will conduct project simulations, examine detailed case studies, and gain both theoretical and practical expertise in project management tools and techniques, with an emphasis on communications, risk analysis, cost estimation and budgeting, and quality control.

Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in Project Management will be able to demonstrate:

• Proficiency in developing a project management life cycle.
• Proficiency in all basic project management tools and techniques, with an emphasis on communications, risk analysis, cost estimation and budgeting, and quality control.
• Knowledge of tools for project scheduling, templates for project management and communication, and techniques to measure cost variance, schedule variance, and earned value.

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