Master of Science in Project Management

Many organisations struggle to achieve efficiency savings. Project Management is consistently recognised as a must-have workplace skill set to attain this value for money efficiency and to ensure sustainable project, programme, and portfolio success. Effective project management skills are in great demand in an increasingly collaborative, uncertain, and complex global environment. Project Management is an essential and desirable criterion in almost every job description.

This MSc in Project Management aims to provide graduates with a broad range of specialist and advanced tool-sets of both technical and interpersonal skills that will equip them to develop successful careers in the demanding and rapidly expanding field of project management.

Project Management is a life skill and applies to every sector from Engineering, Construction, Built Environment, Oil and Gas, Energy/Renewable/Clean Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing and Production, Banking, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Information Systems, Health, Social Care, Public Services, Government, Charity (Non-Governmental Organisations), Third Sectors, Retail, Media and Creative Industry, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), Legal, Capacity development, Local Content and many other Professional Services. This course will cater to the needs of most sectors and industries by embedding a range of Project Management methodologies and methods such as Linear (Traditional/Waterfall), Agile, Scrum, Kanban, PRINCE2, and Project Management for Sustainable Development.

Project Management, Programme Management, and Portfolio Management body of knowledge will weave throughout this Master's degree and will provide a framework to explore fundamental and contemporary theory relating to methodologies, processes, tool-sets, leadership, cultural diversity and behaviours, operations, strategy, systems, change, risk, innovation, commercial and stakeholders' management. This coupled with an in-depth exposure to cutting edge practice across a range of sectors will enable graduates of the MSc Project Management to deliver successful projects, programmes and portfolios in organisations of all sizes.

Overall, student experience is central to the MSc Project Management and is at the heart of everything that we do and deliver in this course.

Prospective students should hold an undergraduate degree (normally of classification 2:2 or above), or:

• A Higher Apprenticeship in Project Management with two years relevant work experience in a project team role, or:
• Five years relevant work experience in a project team role or two years related work experience in programme and portfolio roles and responsibilities.

• MPM7001 Project Management Theory and Practice
• MPM7002 Project Leadership
• MPM7003 Strategic Project Management

• MPM7004 Project Risk Management
• MPM7005 Project Commercial Management
• MPM7006 Project Management Innovations
• MPM7007 Management of Mega and Complex Projects

• MPM7008 Capstone Project

MSc Project Management graduates have diverse career opportunities as Project Managers, Program Managers, Operations Managers, and Risk Analysts across industries like IT, construction, healthcare, finance, and logistics. Advanced roles such as Project Portfolio Managers or even departmental leadership are also attainable, providing a pathway for career progression.