Manage Simple to Complex Projects with a Graduate Certificate or MS in Project Management

BU MET’s MS in Project Management (MSPM) prepares you to manage complex projects, facilitate communication between the project team and clients, and balance competing demands among scope, time, cost, and quality—providing the tools to achieve success at the highest levels of management. 

Coursework covers mega-projects, project and program portfolios, agile principles, project and program governance, project planning and control, project management life cycle, methodologies of effective leadership and motivation, cost and risk management, management of project quality and procurement, earned value analysis, and communication.

When you complete the master’s degree in Project Management, you’ll be able to:

• Construct a project plan and demonstrate knowledge of key subsidiary plans such as scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, resources, and procurement.
• Demonstrate proficiency in developing an agile or plan-based project management life cycle for projects relevant to their professional domain.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of project delivery principles—such as value, stewardship, team, stakeholders, risk management, communications, and leadership.
• Build and enhance team capability after assessing personal strengths and weaknesses and develop skills to manage a team and lead others.
• Demonstrate knowledge of strategic planning, portfolio and program management, project analytics, and governance applicable to large projects and programs.
• Apply key drivers for project success—such as value delivery systems, change management, complexity management, investing in actively engaged sponsors, and social responsibility and ethics.

The MS in Project Management concentration in Program & Project Portfolio Management provides an expanded enterprise view and hands-on practice in the collection of programs and portfolios. 

You’ll learn to evaluate the critical success factors that align with strategic goals of the organization and describe best practices for managing such a portfolio. You’ll construct a program management plan that takes advantage of best practices for the creation and management of programs and coordination of resources, schedule, finance, and risk at the enterprise level. 

You’ll also acquire in-depth practical knowledge of enterprise tools used in organizations to plan and manage a portfolio of programs and projects and learn how to leverage project analytics data to make well-informed decisions.

Metropolitan College’s Project Management master’s degree concentration in Program & Project Portfolio Management will equip you to:

• Evaluate critical success factors for projects and programs across industries, use these factors to create project portfolios that align with strategic goals of the organization, and describe best practices for managing such a portfolio.
• Construct a program management plan that describes best practices for the creation and management of programs and how to plan and coordinate resources, procurement, schedules, finance, risk, and change.
• Acquire in-depth practical knowledge of sophisticated, powerful, and highly integrated enterprise tools used in organizations to plan and manage a portfolio of programs and projects, and learn how to leverage project analytics data to make well-informed decisions.

The MS in Computer Information Systems (MSCIC) concentration in IT Project Management prepares you to lead and manage agile projects and obtain competency in roles such as scrum master or product owner. 

Along with an understanding of virtual project management—enabling you to manage geographically distributed software development—you’ll also gain valuable, marketable skills that encompass governance of large projects and programs for both predictive and various agile life cycles.  

Particularly valuable for those engaged in the administration of technical projects, the IT Project Management concentration introduces general concepts embodied in the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), while immersing you in specialized techniques for software risk management, software cost estimation, and software quality management.

In addition to what you’ll learn from the MSCIS, the concentration in IT Project Management will equip you with: 

• Advanced knowledge of the following project management process groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing; knowledge of agile software development practices, and planning and governance of large projects and programs.
• Proficiency in all basic project management tools and software techniques, including software architecture, project communications, risk analysis, cost estimation and budgeting, and quality control; proficiency in planning and developing a comprehensive project plan and software development life cycle.
• Competence sufficient to architect, design, and implement software systems.

Offered online and on campus, the Graduate Certificate in Project Management offers proven practices and innovative techniques sought after in multinational industries such as telecom, construction, energy, IT, aerospace and defense, finance, and healthcare.

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.

Ideal for project managers, systems analysts, designers, programmers, research managers, and others engaged in the administration of technical projects, 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. 

The Project Management graduate certificate will equip you with:

• 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.

Master IT project management tools and techniques, and gain expertise in agile software development practices and software risk management, cost estimation, and quality management. The certificate is particularly valuable for program managers, project managers, systems analysts, designers, programmers, product owners, specialists.

The Graduate Certificate in IT Project Management will equip you with:

• Advanced knowledge of the following project management process groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. 
• Knowledge of agile software development practices, and planning and governance of large projects.
• Proficiency in all basic project management tools and software techniques, including software architecture, project communications, risk analysis, cost estimation and budgeting, and quality control.
• Proficiency in planning and developing a comprehensive project plan and software development life cycle.
• Competence sufficient to architect, design, and implement software systems.

Develop program and portfolio management skills with the Project, Program & Portfolio Management Graduate Certificate. Learn the principles, practices, and activities of program and portfolio management that support good practices across all industry domains.

Complete this certificate, and you’ll be able to:

• Evaluate critical success factors for projects and programs across industries.
• Use these factors to create project portfolios that align with strategic goals of the organization and describe best practices for managing such a portfolio.
• Construct a program management plan that describes best practices for the creation and management of programs.
• Learn how to plan and coordinate resources, procurement, schedule, finance, risk, and manage change.
• Acquire in-depth practical knowledge of enterprise tools used in organizations to plan and manage a portfolio of programs and projects.
• Leverage project analytics data to make well-informed decisions.