Master of Science Project Management

Tuition: $565/credit*

* Tuition rates are for the 2021-22 academic year. Additional fees and costs for course materials may apply. Total program cost and completion time varies depending on transfer credits and individual program plans. Tuition rates are subject to change.

Seeking your Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification?

As a PMI Global Accreditation Center (GAC) accredited program, completing the CSS Master’s in Project Management provides a 12-month reduction to the project management work experience required to seek the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. The coursework in the program will also prepare you for success on the exam.

St. Scholastica and Project Management: A natural fit

St. Scholastica’s online Master of Science in Project Management program builds on our experience in leadership, change management and technology. The successful track record of graduates from our MBA, M.A. in Management and IT Leadership programs positions us well to offer a project management degree that emphasizes ethical decision making, social responsibility, global awareness and professional excellence.

Increasing Expectations for Project Managers

These days, project managers aren’t just executing strategy, they are helping to determine business priorities. In fact, recent Project Management Institute (PMI) research shows the ability to manage projects is only one-third of the ideal skill set — coined the “Talent Triangle” — which includes technical ability, leadership, and strategic/business management expertise. In our coursework, we equip students for executive level decision-making by developing skills outside the traditional core.

Career Advancement for Current Professionals

The Master of Science in Project Management is designed for current professionals familiar with the project environment. The proposed curriculum is based upon the offerings from current professionally accredited project management programs and established professional guidelines while maintaining the people-centered leadership approach applied by all Stender School of Business and Technology graduate programs.

Program Mission

The Stender School of Business and Technology follows a mission statement where leaders are developed to embody the values of the school and demonstrate ethical decision-making, social responsibility, global awareness, and professional excellence. The Master of Science in Project Management graduate program seeks to prepare students for a career in project management and develop students as leaders in a manner that fulfills the school’s mission.

The Master of Science in Project Management prepares students to be proficient in the skills and techniques of project management, embody the college’s Catholic Benedictine values as a leader in successful global projects, and possess the vision needed to align projects with organizational priorities.

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of the Project Management program at The College of St. Scholastica, the graduate will be able to:

• Integrate ethical and value considerations in leadership behaviors and decision making
• Adapt project leadership and project processes to global and distributed team environments
• Apply contextual and project role considerations to stakeholder communications
• Guide organizational change efforts to adopt project deliverables
• Analyze and improve an organization’s project management practices
• Evaluate projects in both operational and strategic perspectives
• Apply current project management methods, skills and tools

Curriculum Details

The Master of Science in Project Management curriculum is made up of 13 courses for a total of 37 credits. The curriculum consists of four foundational courses to prepare students with the basic project management skills and knowledge, three advanced project management courses, three global and strategic specialization courses, and three courses associated with the capstone project. The foundational courses should be completed before enrolling in the advanced and specialization courses and there are course prerequisites identified in the course descriptions.

Students who have obtained their PMP^® certification will earn prior learning credit for two courses. These students will not be required to take PRM 6110 or PRM 6115.

Capstone Project

The capstone project is an in-depth research project that assimilates knowledge from prior courses with findings from current literature of the selected topic area. Students will perform a literature review, problem analysis and propose a solution to the defined problem. Once complete, the project is approved by a project advisor and published. Students are also required to give an on-site oral presentation of their capstone project.

Cohort Model

Students progress through the courses as a cohort beginning with the fundamental core courses and continue through the advanced and global courses as they conclude with a capstone project. The sequencing of the courses is important since mastery of the topics in the fundamental courses are required for proper application in the advanced courses. As a result, students must progress through the fundamental courses before proceeding on to the more advanced project management courses.

Schema

Project Managers have opportunities across a variety of industries including construction management, computer and information systems management, engineering management or a number of other management roles. The master’s in project management is designed to build on your current professional experience, providing you with the organizational, technical, and leadership skills necessary to bring large projects to completion.

• Highly trained project managers can expect to see worldwide growth of nearly 88 million new positions by 2027. (Source: 2017 PMI Job Growth and Talent Gap)
• The average annual salary for an experienced project manager is $116,000 (Source: 2020 PMI 11th edition Salary Survey)

The College of St. Scholastica has been granted accreditation by the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC). GAC accreditation ensures the quality of academic degree programs and their graduates to meet the standards of the rapidly growing field of project management.

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Application Deadlines

Fall: Aug. 15
Spring: Dec. 15

Eligibility

New Students

• BA/BS degree from an accredited college or university
  Cumulative GPA of 2.8
• Have a minimum of two years full time work experience in any field