Program Overview
Project Management Certificate
The Project Management Certificate program is designed to equip individuals with the best practices in project management as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). This program serves as a great way to build the skills to keep projects on task, on time, and on budget. It also fulfills the required project management education hours for PMP certification.
Program Details
- Learning Format: Online Self-Paced with a Personal Learning Coach
- Start Date: Within 1 week of registration
- Average Duration: Approx. 3 months
- Average Hours in the Program: 80 hours
- Average Hours per Week: 5-7 hours
- Credit or Non-Credit: non-credit
- Cost: $2,300.00
This program is designed for individual learners but may be customized to be delivered onsite at an organization. It is intended for both new and experienced project managers who have little formal education in project management.
Program Benefits
The certificate will position individuals to begin or continue their journey as Project Management professionals. Building upon hands-on experience with practical assignments and a real-world project, with the guidance of a Rutgers Personal Learning Coach, individuals will have the confidence and knowledge to make significant contributions to this critical, strategic function at their current employer or prospective employers.
The Rutgers Project Management curriculum is tied to The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) – Sixth/Seventh Edition, as well as other valuable learning about best practices in project management. The professional certificate adequately prepares individuals to apply for PMI’s PMP or CAPM certification, satisfying the 35-hour education requirement necessary to apply for these highly sought-after certifications.
What You Will Learn
The main goal of this certificate is to enable individuals to develop skills and competencies that employers are looking for in the following areas:
- Project Integration
- Project Initiation and Planning
- Project Scope and Project Time
- Project Cost
- Project Quality
- Managing Human Resources
- Communications
- Risk Management
- Procurement
- Stakeholders
- Agile Project Management
Optional and included in the investment: If individuals are planning to apply to PMI for the PMP or CAPM certification, the e-learning environment contains exam prep “boot camp” and other test preparation resources to support their success in earning those credentials.
How You Will Learn
Given the busy schedules of professionals and rising executives, Rutgers has developed a powerful hybrid learning model that combines the flexible delivery of self-paced, online learning with that of a seasoned professional – a Personal Learning Coach – who serves as a learning and career guidant to mentor individuals through successful completion of their program and set them up for success to achieve their career aspirations.
- Individualized support by industry experts: To assure learning supports where individuals are and where they want to go in their career, the personalized delivery model teams them up with a learning coach who will meet with them virtually during the course of their study.
- Project-Based: Individuals will apply the concepts they learn in a project that they can draw upon as they interview for their new role. Because the project simulates actual work duties of professionals in this field, the project offers an opportunity to showcase the skills and competencies that employers are looking for in hiring and promoting professionals in their organizations.
- Flexibility: Learn on the days of the week and times of day that fit individual schedules: E-Learning is available virtually 24/7/365.
Who Should Attend
The certificate program is intended for both new and experienced project managers who have little formal education in project management. The program will give individuals the tools, skills, theories, and techniques necessary to be successful.
Why Rutgers
Earn a credential to put on a resume that showcases skills to support career success from a trusted public institution serving the people, businesses, and government agencies in the state of New Jersey for over 250 years.