Program Overview

The Associate of Applied Science in Project Management prepares students with the practical, analytical, technological, leadership, and professional competencies required to support the planning, execution, monitoring, control, and delivery of projects and programs across different industries.

The program develops competence in project initiation, scope, scheduling, budgeting, stakeholder management, risk, quality, procurement, contracts, Agile delivery, project controls, workforce coordination, digital project systems, analytics, program and portfolio management, organizational change, project finance, governance, and project assurance.

Students gain practical experience through project workshops, digital project-management systems, scheduling exercises, project-controls laboratories, dashboards, structured project datasets, financial modeling, and supervised integrated project simulations.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the program will be able to apply project, program, and portfolio management principles, methodologies, governance structures, roles, and lifecycle processes across different project environments. They will develop project business cases, charters, objectives, scope statements, requirements, work breakdown structures, schedules, resource plans, and budgets while applying appropriate predictive, Agile, iterative, and hybrid delivery approaches. Graduates will be able to analyze stakeholders, manage communication and engagement, and apply principles of risk, quality, change control, procurement, contracts, governance, and project assurance. They will use professional project-management software, scheduling systems, collaborative platforms, spreadsheets, dashboards, and reporting tools to monitor project schedules, costs, resources, risks, issues, and performance against approved baselines. Graduates will apply project controls, earned-value analysis, variance analysis, forecasting, corrective action, financial analysis, procurement, vendor management, leadership, negotiation, organizational change, and program and portfolio management principles. They will prepare professional project dashboards, management reports, forecasts, executive summaries, and decision-support recommendations while applying ethical and accountable practices and completing an integrated capstone demonstrating strategic, operational, financial, analytical, and digital project-management competence.

What You’ll Learn

Project Foundations & Initiation

Students will learn project, program, and portfolio management principles, project lifecycle phases and methodologies, project governance, organizational contexts, project selection, business cases, project charters, project objectives, and stakeholder identification and management.

Scope, Planning, Scheduling & Cost Management

Students will develop practical knowledge of project scope and requirements, work breakdown structures, project activities and deliverables, scheduling, resource planning, project budgets, cost management, and procurement requirements.

Agile & Digital Project Management

Students will learn Agile values and principles, Scrum roles, events and artifacts, product backlogs, user stories, tasks, sprint and iteration planning, digital scheduling, project baselines, collaborative project boards, task tracking, digital dashboards, and status reporting.

Risk, Quality & Governance

Students will learn risk identification, analysis, and response planning, as well as the use of risk and issue registers. The program also covers quality requirements, standards and controls, change control, project governance, project monitoring, and integrated project administration.

Procurement, Contracts & Vendor Management

Students will develop knowledge of project procurement, sourcing, vendor selection, contract structures, commercial documentation, contract administration, supplier performance, procurement risk, and contract closeout.

Project Leadership & Organizational Change

Students will develop skills in project leadership, team coordination, negotiation, conflict management, stakeholder management, and organizational change. They will also examine strategic change, stakeholder readiness, benefits identification, and benefits realization.

Project Controls & Performance

Students will learn digital scheduling, dependencies, constraints, critical path and float, schedule and cost baselines, planned versus actual analysis, variance analysis, earned-value concepts, forecasting, corrective action, and project-controls reporting.

Project Analytics & Portfolio Reporting

Students will learn how to work with project datasets and prepare data for analysis. The program covers schedule, cost, resource, risk, and quality analytics, key performance indicators, variance, trend and exception analysis, charts, dashboards, reports, and multi-project and portfolio reporting.

Program & Portfolio Management

Students will learn program and portfolio management principles, organizational strategy, strategic alignment, project prioritization, governance, resource coordination, and benefits realization.

Risk, Governance & Project Assurance

Students will develop advanced knowledge of project and program risk, governance and oversight, project controls and assurance, decision rights, escalation, independent review, compliance, and organizational accountability.

Project Finance & Commercial Decision-Making

Students will learn project costs and cash flows, investment analysis, financing considerations, commercial alternatives, procurement economics, contingency, and project financial performance. They will also develop practical skills in financial modeling, payback and net present value analysis, make-or-buy analysis, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis.

Integrated Project Management Practice

Students apply project-management software, spreadsheets, collaborative platforms, schedules, dashboards, risk and issue registers, digital documentation systems, project-control datasets, and professional reporting tools to plan, control, and deliver integrated projects.

Career Opportunities

Graduates may pursue entry-level and junior-level opportunities in project management, project coordination, PMO support, project controls, implementation, scheduling, reporting, and related project-management environments. The program develops competencies that can be applied across project planning, delivery, procurement, stakeholder management, risk, quality, financial management, digital project systems, analytics, and project governance. Graduates may also continue their professional development or pursue further education in project management and related fields. Actual job titles, responsibilities, and employment requirements may vary depending on the employer, industry, and work setting.

Admission Requirements

The provided program curriculum specifies course-level prerequisites throughout the program, including prerequisite completion for selected Project Management courses and designated technical-core courses for the capstone. General admission requirements are not separately specified in the provided curriculum document.

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Tuition & Study Options

Program Duration

2 Years / 4 Semesters

Study Options

Live Online | On-Campus | Hybrid

Training Structure

Tuition

$12,000