Project Management Certificate

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Efficiency. Budget. Deadlines. All core considerations within any workplace. A project manager’s role is to achieve peak organizational output while optimizing all vital resources—time, money, and human capital. Companies know they need that level of leadership to tackle the realities of global competition, emerging technologies, and increased customer demands.

Project management training could teach you how to select, govern, fund, and implement organizational activities using project management tools, processes, and techniques. The knowledge taught in KCE's certificate program for project management could help you manage major initiatives that impact a business’s success. Be the one to maximize return on investment for your organization and you could do more than improve your company’s bottom line—you could improve your own.

Understand the uses of project management and apply your skills to anything from the design of an alternative fuel-powered vehicle to closing on new construction in the next hip downtown neighborhood, and to anywhere from e-commerce to aerospace. With three tracks to choose from—business, information technology, or construction—the possibilities are endless.

Prepare for your PMP®, CAPM®, or Project+ Designation

Kaplan Continuing Education has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). As a PMI® Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) Kaplan Continuing Education has agreed to abide by PMI® established quality assurance criteria.

Imagine What You Can Do

  • Initiate

  • Authorize and define the scope of work for developing a new consumer product or technology-enhanced service.
  • Plan

  • Hone the project scope, develop the project management plan, and identify and schedule project activities.
  • Execute

  • Complete the work as defined in the project management plan to accomplish objectives.
  • Control

  • Compare actual performance with planned performance; analyze variances; effect process improvements; evaluate alternatives; recommend appropriate corrective actions.
  • Close

  • Formally complete all activities on a project or phase and transfer the completed product to clients or investors.
  • Manage

  • Oversee everything from integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement.
 

Imagine Where You Can Apply

Nonprofits and small companies need project management, as do government agencies and multibillion-dollar companies. The uses of project management apply across industries including business, information technology, construction, insurance, financial services, engineering, health care, training and education, manufacturing, government, utilities, consulting, aerospace, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, real estate, food and beverage, and resources (agriculture, mining, etc.).*

Is This Program Right for Me?

KCE’s certificate program for project management is ideally suited for business, information technology, and construction professionals. The program first concentrates on providing a strong foundation in project management, then combines the advanced skills from one of three core practice areas:

Business Track:

Designed to provide expanded topics in the use of methods and tools needed for successful project management.

Information Technology Track:

Addresses the unique and ever-changing nature of technology

Construction Track:

Guides participants through the generally accepted practices of project management in the construction industry.

All interested applicants are encouraged to apply.

Courses

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Program Prerequisites

  • High School Diploma or GED

Program Length

  • 6 months

Tuition

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Take the First Step

In 6 months or less, you could be on your way to a more rewarding career by completing our certificate program for project management. Take the first step by calling 866.542.4042 (Toll Free) or click here for more information.

*Kaplan Continuing Education’s programs are designed to prepare graduates to pursue employment in their field of study, or in related fields. However, KCE does not guarantee that graduates will be placed in any particular job or employed at all

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