Master of Science in Project Management
January 9, 2026 2026-01-09 13:47Master of Science in Project Management
Project managers are important team members among all professions. Industries that include project managers include everything from higher education to healthcare to public utilities.
Why Choose TWU's Master of Science in Project Mangament?
Flexibility
Online, flexible format built for working professionals.
Affordable Tuition
Priced significantly lower than the national average for graduate business degrees.
Degrees that Work
Knowledge that works across industries and opens doors to advancement.
Project Management
Project management is crucial for organizations to achieve their strategic goals, minimize risks, and deliver value to clients and stakeholders. It provides a structured approach to planning, executing, and controlling projects, ensuring that they are completed successfully. Project managers help companies effectively use their resources while achieving the goals of the organization. They also manage risks, meet deadlines, and control costs. While ensuring team effectiveness, project managers focus on collaboration and good communication among stakeholders.
LOCATION
Online
CREDITS
Minimum of 30
COST
$600 per credit hour
Project Management Courses
BUS 513: Emerging Technologies
This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of emerging technologies as they relate to innovation and information systems in organizations, and the management strategies required to understand, leverage, and benefit from these technologies.
BUS 556: Ethical Decision Making for Business
This course focuses on the business environment in which managers confront and make ethical decisions. Case studies are used extensively to illustrate the integration of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and ethics into key strategic business decisions to develop an ethical corporate culture.
BUS 581: Life Cycle of Projects
This course examines the foundational overview of project management through the processes of the project life cycle. Students will learn about project management in its entirety from the initiation of the project to its closing.
BUS 582: Risk Assessment & Quality Management
This course will provide students with knowledge of project management, project risk management, and project quality management. Students will determine how to assess, address, and manage risk to achieve successful projects. Students will learn to use various project tools for planning, leading, organizing, and controlling projects.
BUS 583: Human Resource in Project Management
This course is designed to examine human resources and stakeholders within the framework of project management. Students will plan projects where human resource capital and stakeholders are analyzed.
BUS 584: Developing the Project
This course examines topics in project management focusing on project development. Students will gain an understanding of project requirements-gathering techniques and estimating techniques for budgeting, based on project scope.
BUS 585: Project Initiation
This course examines the implementation of the first phase of the project’s life cycle. Key concepts explored are: assessing risk, and scheduling, resourcing, and budgeting projects.
BUS 586: Project Fulfillment
This course is an overview of the fulfillment processes in project management utilizing monitoring tools and techniques for optimal results.
BUS 587: Project Culmination & Evaluation
This course analyzes the completion of a project and an evaluation of its effectiveness. Students will examine evaluation techniques, gather data, and apply the results to improvement of future project design.
BUS 588: Project Management Strategy
This course examines all aspects of strategic project management. Students will critique the practical approaches and techniques to analyze, plan, execute and lead projects to meet an organization’s objectives.
