Meet the growing demand for project leaders and couple your MBA with a project management concentration with the Master of Business Administration in Project Management from Southern New Hampshire University. Learn what it takes to plan, monitor, measure, and adapt a project from start to finish, and earn an MBA that fits right into your life. A Project Manager's job is to keep projects and people on track, and the field of project management is growing as more companies move to project team-based business models.

Our MBA is all about understanding and optimizing the functions of a business. The project management MBA builds a strong foundation of management skills, and you can apply these skills to leadership roles across a variety of industries, including construction, healthcare, IT development, manufacturing, and more. Students who take QSO-645: Project Management for Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification course as part of their concentration can satisfy the educational requirement of the PMP exam. This industry-recognized credential demonstrates proven project management skills and could help boost career growth and earning potential.

Learn how to:

- Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to inform project management decision-making

- Develop and foster adaptable strategies for various projects

- Learn to continually improve organizations and their practices

- Lead and collaborate with a variety of key stakeholders

- Cultivate globally aware and culturally responsive teams and organizations

- Create and implement plans that articulate organizational culture, align with ethical and legal standards, and promote sustainable business practices

- Demonstrate knowledge in project management that builds upon the core competencies of business administration

SNHUs MBA in Project Management is one of the most affordable MBAs in the nation and can be completed in just over a year. The MBA in Project Management online combines theory with practical application. You can graduate with a set of tools that complement today's tech-intensive workplace. In the updated curriculum, you'll engage in scenario-based learning opportunities, allowing you to complete activities and individually graded group work based on solving real-world business problems. This type of learning offers a hands-on learning experience in your online classroom that mimics real-world work settings and challenges. Taught by professors with many years of business experience, your courses will focus on how to lead a project from start to finish smoothly. You'll learn how to define the scope of a project, develop a project timeline, and identify costs and resources.

Project management learning will be supported by the MBA core curriculum, which focuses on all aspects of business leadership, including:

- Building Business Leaders

- Applied Business Statistics

- Leading People and Organizations

- Optimizing Brands

- Leading Organizational Change

- And more

Your project management degree courses will focus on the tools, processes, and strategies used to successfully hit the goals of any big project. You'll learn how factors like scope, time, cost, quality, risk, resources, and communication impact a project. You can apply this learning to real-world case studies to gain key decision-making experience. And you'll get hands-on practice using manual and technology-based tools to start, plan and control projects. If you're interested in seeking the PMP certification, you have the option to take QSO-645: Project Management for PMP Certification as part of your MBA program.

In this course, you'll explore the professional and social responsibilities of project management. You can also get a deeper understanding of the tools and techniques you can use to plan and manage projects. This course satisfies the education requirement of 35 hours needed to take the PMP exam. It does not guarantee certification or passage of the certification exam but does get you closer to earning this key credential. You must meet all other PMP requirements, including work experience hours, in order to sit for the exam.

No matter what your goals are, an MBA in Project Management offers key leadership and career skills you can use to be successful as a project manager or business leader. These skills include:

- Communication. Communicate effectively between internal team members, clients, and vendors.

- Critical thinking. Know how to ask questions, solve problems and make decisions.

- Leadership. Be an active leader and coach for members of your project team to keep projects running smoothly.

- Organization. Plan and monitor project timelines to keep projects on track.

Students with non-business academic backgrounds may be required to take foundation courses. As an add-on to your degree with minimal additional courses required, MBA students can also pursue a graduate certificate beyond the standard degree program, including a project management graduate certificate. This allows you to list another significant credential on your resume with minimal additional coursework.

Don't have a business background? No problem. Our MBA is accessible to everyone. Interested students must have a conferred undergraduate degree for acceptance, but it can be in any field. Those without an undergraduate degree in business or a related field may be asked to complete up to 2 foundation courses to get started. These foundations cover essential business skill sets and can be used to satisfy elective requirements for the general-track MBA. With foundations, the maximum length of your online MBA would be 36 credits.

Attend full-time or part-time. Students in the MBA have the option to enroll full-time (at 2 classes per term) or part-time (with 1 class per term). Full-time students should be able to complete the program in about 1 year, while part-time students could finish in about 2 years. Our SNHU students are busy, often juggling jobs, family, and other obligations, so you may want to work with your academic advisor to identify the course plan that works for you. The good news is, you can switch from full-time to part-time and back again as often as you want. In accordance with SNHUs relationship with the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the ability to offer Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam content, SNHU instructors completed the PMI®s Authorized Training Partner Train the Trainer PMP® Exam Prep Program.

This program equips SNHU faculty with the authority to deliver PMP® exam prep and training content to PMIs quality standards for the revised exam, which went into effect in January 2021. This designation is essential to allowing SNHU to offer PMP® preparatory content through QSO-645: Project Management for PMP Certification, which also offers students the 35 hours of project management education required to sit for the exam. Students who choose to pursue their PMP® certification may find that this industry-recognized credential offers proven project management skills and could help boost career growth and earning potential.

Part of our mission to expand access to quality, higher education means removing the barriers that may stand between you and your degree. That's why you can apply at any time and get a decision within days of submitting all required materials with no GRE or GMAT required. Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis throughout the year for our 5 graduate terms.

$150 Graduation Fee, Course Materials ($ varies by course)