Program Overview

Project Management, M.P.S.

Program Overview

The online Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Project Management degree is designed to equip students with the skills to create project plans, manage schedules and budgets, identify risks, and communicate status reports to stakeholders at all levels within an organization.

Program Features

• Master of Professional Studies graduate degree, 30 credits
• Develop a comprehensive project management plan demonstrating expertise in the ten knowledge areas across the five phases of the project lifecycle.
• Examine approaches to effectively manage large-scale projects, which are primarily comprised of virtual teams that have the additional challenges of being multi-cultural, overcoming language barriers, and collaborating across different time zones.
• Learn to address risk management with an approach that provides project management professionals the ability to minimize the threats of risk while maximizing the positive impacts of opportunities.

About This Program

• 100% Online
• 3 Start Dates a Year
• 8-Week Courses
• 30 Credits
• Study Part Time
• Blend of Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning

Tuition Incentive

Apply and get admitted to the Project Management M.P.S. degree or C.A.S. program to be eligible to receive the MPS/CAS Tuition Incentive – discounted tuition rate of just $1,000 per credit! Discount is good through completion of the program.

Project Management Learning Outcomes

• Understand the importance of project management in the context of various organizational and global cultures and strategies.
• Learn how to select an appropriate approach and develop a project management plan that documents the actions necessary to define, coordinate, and measure all project activities, while ensuring control and management of risks, costs, and changes to the project in order to achieve stakeholder expectations.
• Utilize appropriate communication methods and tools to communicate status reporting, issues tracking, change control, and sprint/project reviews.
• Understand the critical factors for project team formation and how team operations must vary with the context and type of project.
• Understand procurement, supply chain management, finance, cost management, and other business aspects of project management.

Curriculum

• PPM 610 Project Management Fundamentals
• PPM 612 Project Planning
• PPM 613 Agile Project Management
• PPM 615 Schedule Development and Management
• PPM 628 Opportunity and Risk Management
• PPM 629 Procurement and Stakeholder management
• PPM 632 Organizational Behavior and Leadership
• PPM 634 Project Communications Management
• PPM 646 Global Projects and Virtual Project Management
• PPM 711 Capstone in Project Management

Admissions Requirements

Applications for Syracuse University’s online project management master’s degree are accepted on a rolling basis. No GRE/GMAT is required.

• Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Official transcripts are required for all college-credit classes you have enrolled in, both undergraduate- and graduate-level.
• Two letters of recommendation. If you have graduated in the past three years, one reference should be academic, and the other can be professional.
• A personal statement discussing your goals and motivation for studying project management.
• A current résumé.