Online Project Management Certificate

Have you been thinking about taking your career in a direction that leads you to managing teams through complex projects using resources and knowledge to meet defined outcomes? Perhaps into a project management or leadership role in your business or industry? Our project management certification online program will help you do just that.

At University of the Cumberlands, our graduate-level online project management certification program is designed to accommodate a wide variety of people with backgrounds in business and industry who aspire to work in management-specific roles. This Kentucky-based certificate in project management online program provides you with the knowledge, experience, and tactics you'll need to guide your project management career into the future.  

• What is Project Management?
• What is a Project Management Certification?
• What Careers can I do with an Online Project Management?
• Is a Project Management Certificate Worth It?
• Admission Requirements
• Affordable & Achievable
• Accreditation

What is Project Management?

Your project management certification online education and credential is a tool to help you achieve your career goals in project management, helping you stand out from a crowd of similarly skilled professional leaders in the industry and business fields. Aside from the boost to your resumé, it also helps you develop the skills needed to succeed in management and leadership roles, strengthening the team and business you serve.

University of the Cumberlands online project management certification program can help equip you to pursue management roles and innovative approaches to complex projects in growing industrial fields.

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What Is It?

Your project management certificate online education and credential is a tool to help you achieve your career goals in project management, helping you stand out from a crowd of similarly skilled professional leaders in the industry and business fields. Aside from the boost to your resumé, it also helps you develop the skills needed to succeed in management and leadership roles strengthening the team and business you serve. 

University of the Cumberlands online project management certificate program can help equip you to pursue management and innovative approaches to complex projects in growing industrial fields. 

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What Careers Can I Do with an Online Project Management Certification?

Earning your project management certification online could unlock a range of exciting career paths. Many career paths in this wide field offer the possibility of growth within organizational leadership.

After earning an online project management certification, you could pursue career paths like:

• Project Manager
• Cost Estimator
• Market Research Analyst
• Operations Research Analyst
• Management Analyst 

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Is a Project Management Certificate Worth It?

According to the 2021 Project Management Institute Inc (PMI) commissioned Talent Gap: Ten-Year Employment Trends, Costs, and Global Implications, there’s a widening gap between employers’ need for skilled project management workers and the availability of professionals to fill these roles across the globe. By 2030, employers will require 25 million new project professionals. PMI estimates employers will need to fill nearly 2.3 million new project-oriented roles every year through 2030. 12 million of those roles will be driven by expansion, while 13 million will be caused by retirements.

According to PMI’s Project Management Salary Survey 12th ed, the median salary for a PMP Credential holder in the United States was $115,000.  They also note that across 40 surveyed countries, PMP certified respondents reported earnings 16% higher, on average, than those without PMP certification.

At University of the Cumberlands, we provide career-building online programs for project managers in a way that allows business professionals to effectively plan, manage, execute and monitor projects regardless of industry; gain innovative techniques to drive project outcomes; gain experience working in a team setting; and acquire the ability to incorporate ethical reasoning skills and behavior in the project management profession and practice.

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Curriculum and Degree Requirements

The Project Management Certificate is a twelve (12) credit hour graduate-level online certificate program designed to equip students with the necessary skills, practical knowledge, professional tools, and innovative techniques that they can leverage in their current role or achieve the career advancement they seek in today’s project-based world. The coursework is industry-driven and teaches the most up-to-date project management methodology, proven strategies and, hands-on tools that meet the professional development needs of modern project managers. The project management certificate program shares courses with the Masters of Science in Project Management, which is an Authorized Training Partner (#4320) through Project Management Institute, Inc. and accredited by The International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE).

Required Courses (3 hours each):

• BADM 633     Planning the Project
• BADM 634     Initiating the Project
• BADM 635     Executing the Project
• BADM 636     Monitoring/Controlling and Closing the Project

Successful completion of the program provides the educational hours needed to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP) or the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification exams available through Project Management Institute, Inc. Graduates of the program will also be eligible for admission to the Master of Science in Project Management degree program upon completing a master’s application and submitting all required documentation.

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Admission Requirements

A bachelor's degree from an accredited university and minimum undergraduate cumulative GPA of 2.0 is required to be admitted to the Project Management Certificate program. Submit official transcripts from all applicable colleges/universities attended; must be received directly from the issuing college or university.

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Affordable. Achievable.

Costs for programs of study at University of the Cumberlands are competitive and affordable. You can learn more here.

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Accreditation

Click here to view University of the Cumberlands' accreditation information.

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