Join a project management course you can study flexibly, 100% online.
Learn to use the tools and techniques you need to excel at leading and managing projects.
In this Masters-level online short course, which is a core part of our MBA Global, you’ll study how projects work and how to manage them better.
With the guidance of experts from industry and academia, you’ll develop your understanding of:
- managing different kinds of project
- why projects run late or over budget, and
- what you can do to reduce some of the risks associated with projects.
You’ll cover a range of approaches to projects and project organisation, including:
- traditional, agile, and lean projects
- use of digital project-control tools, and
- project selection, risk, and appraisal.
You’ll also examine project complexity, learning to apply your knowledge to projects of different scales.
Who can join this online project management course?
This is a postgraduate course for those looking to take their knowledge of project management to the next level.
Build credits towards an MBA Global
This course is part of our online:
You can use the credits you earn on this short course towards this MBA qualification.
What you’ll study
In this course, you’ll cover topics including:
- how to evaluate a project’s scope, risk, quality, time, and cost
- how to appraise and select projects
- project management methods including traditional, agile, and lean
- project control tools and techniques for controlling and monitoring projects, including PERT (program evaluation and review technique), CPM (critical path method), and EVA (earned value analysis).
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to...
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Explain the importance and detail of scope, time, cost, quality, and risk in project management.
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Produce project reports and use them to monitor progress on projects.
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Apply a range of project management techniques, including PERT, CPM, and EVA.
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Select project management techniques appropriate for the size and type of project you are working on.
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Compare and assess different alternative projects.
Choose the University of Aberdeen for online project management courses
Earn as you learn
We fit around full-time work, so you can build qualifications while you keep earning a salary.
We’re EQUIS accredited
Join a Business School that’s EFMD EQUIS accredited, placing it among a select group of globally recognised institutions.
You’re in expert hands
We’ve been delivering online and distance learning for decades.
Outstanding student feedback
We’re ranked 1st in Scotland for student positivity for both Business Studies and Management Studies in the National Student Survey 2024.
How you’ll study
Online learning
This distance-learning project management course is delivered flexibly, 100% online.
You can learn with us anywhere, no student visa required, and manage your hours to suit you.
Your teaching
This course is taught at Masters level.
Teaching is delivered through MyAberdeen, our online Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It holds all the materials, tools and support you’ll need in your studies. Take a look around MyAberdeen.
Course materials are carefully planned and structured. You can access your learning materials on computer, smartphone and laptop, 24 hours a day. You’ll find a range of resources available, including:
- videos
- live online webinars with course lecturers
- reading materials
- quizzes
- discussion boards with your tutors and peers
- the online resources of our award-winning Sir Duncan Rice Library.
In this interactive course, you’ll participate in many discussions with fellow students and course lecturers using online discussion forums.
Live online webinars
Across the course, you’ll have eight live webinar sessions with your tutor. These live online webinars support the main learning material and are central to your learning. Your participation in them will count towards your final grades.
These are student-led webinars where you’re invited to share and discuss each other’s experiences and reflect together on the materials.
Ahead of each live webinar, you’ll be asked to study the online materials provided, post questions online, undertake multiple-choice quizzes and other tasks. You may also be asked to work in small groups to prepare for some of the live sessions.
Your tutors
You’ll learn from experienced academics and researchers from the University of Aberdeen Business School.
Your course coordinator
Georgia Brown
Georgia is a Lecturer in our Business School. She is also Projects Director at Cairndene, a marine engineering and project management consultancy.
Georgia has significant Oil & Gas project management experience and a background lecturing at several universities. No stranger to distance learning, she achieved her MBA at the Open University.
Project management is just one of her passions. Georgia also has an MLitt in Film Studies and is currently researching for her PhD in Film.
View Georgia’s profileWhere this will take you
Towards an MBA
You’ll earn 15 credits at Masters level (SCQF Level 11) with this course. You can use these credits towards our:
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Careers
You’ll complete this course better able to approach, assess, manage, and lead different project types.
The skills and expertise you’ll gain will be useful for any career where the ability to lead and work in projects is needed.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Your employer or professional institute may recognise this course for CPD hours. Talk to your employer or institute to find out more.
Free career support
Access our free careers service while you study.
- 1:1 appointments
- CV checks
- Interview prep
- Job opportunities
Entry requirements
This course has no formal entry requirements. You decide if it’s suitable for you.
The course is delivered at Masters level. At this level, you’d usually have at least:
- an undergraduate degree at UK honours level, or equivalent, and
- a minimum of two years’ post-degree professional experience.
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