Overview
Develop the professional expertise needed to plan, develop, manage and deliver complex projects. Applicable to any industry, our course is Association for Project Management (APM) accredited. It is designed for graduates and professionals who wish to enter a career or further their existing career in project management.
You will develop the knowledge and applicational skills required to manage projects in a wide range of organizations that use projects.
Uniquely our MSc Project Management recognizes that management is an individual and personal activity; every manager manages in their own way. Consequently, the course enables you to develop your own unique approach to managing projects, based on good general management and specialist project management skills.
We’ve combined advanced theory and research modules to create a course that you’ll be able to draw on throughout your career.
Accredited by The Association for Project Management, APM is now in receipt of a Royal Charter adding further value to this distinctive qualification
You’ll benefit from free student membership with the Association for Project Management. Membership includes lots of useful online resources and access to the Project Journal archive to aid your studies as well as discounted access to APM events, which are great opportunities to learn, meet influential figures and explore new ways of thinking and working.
Choose to study by distance learning
Our MSc Project Management is also available as a distance learning course. Our courses are designed according to principles of effective learning, through storytelling, discussion, visible learning, and using community support to celebrate progress. As a distance learning student, you'll use FutureLearn, a secure online environment where you can access tasks and learning resources.
You can also use FutureLearn to communicate with fellow students and your tutors. You'll have a regular one-to-one correspondence with, and feedback from, your tutor.
Throughout the course, you'll also have a dedicated Distance Learning Facilitator, who will help orientate you around FutureLearn and other areas of support.
Careers
With our degree, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to manage and lead projects in a wide range of industries and organizations.
You will be able to meet the increasing demand for professional project managers, nationally and internationally, to provide the increasingly sophisticated management of projects across a broad spectrum of organizations.
Your faculty
The Faculty of Science & Engineering is one of the largest of the four faculties at Anglia Ruskin University. Whether you choose to study with us full-time or part-time, on-campus or at a distance, there’s an option whatever your level – from a foundation degree, BSc, MSc, Ph.D., or professional doctorate.
Whichever course you pick, you’ll gain the theory and practical skills needed to progress with confidence. Join us and you could find yourself learning in the very latest laboratories or on field trips or work placements with well-known and respected companies. You may even have the opportunity to study abroad.
Everything we do in the faculty has a singular purpose: to provide a world-class environment to create, share and advance knowledge in science, technology, and engineering fields. This is key to all of our futures.

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