MS in Project Management (PM)

In today's competitive global economy, focus of businesses is more towards project management for delivering competitive results. This programme is aimed at students who wish to pursue careers in corporate sector and SMEs from diversified sectors. The programme shall aim to provide students with knowledge and expertise of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling and closing out projects. The programs offers skills of accomplishing goals through proven frameworks. The program offers disciplined approach starting from portfolio level where the strategic vision drives initial investments and where value measures are established to the fully aligned project, program and portfolio management strategy which encompasses the entire organization, dictating project execution at every level and aiming to deliver value at each step along the way. It is envisaged that businesses need to adapt the project management practices which are in fact, shorthand for project, program and portfolio management as these businesses are clearly seeing the payoff from investing time, money and resources to build organizational project management expertise: lower costs, greater efficiencies, improved customer and stakeholder satisfaction, and greater competitive advantages. This MS progrmme shall help students learn about all these project management practices.

List of the courses to be taught in MS in Project Management are given in the Tables: 1-6

Table – 1: First Semester Courses

S.#

Title of the Course

Credit Hours

Marks

01.

Business Finance

3-0

100

02.

Business Mathematics and Statistics

3-0

100

03.

Financial Accounting

3-0

100

04.

Principles of Marketing

3-0

100

05.

Theory and Practice of Management

3-0

100

Total

15-0

500

Table – 2: Second Semester Courses

S.#

Title of the Course

Credit Hours

Marks

01.

Economics

3-0

100

02.

Business Communication

3-0

100

03.

Marketing Management

3-0

100

04.

Financial Management

3-0

100

05.

Human Resource Management

3-0

100

Total

15-0

500

Table – 3: Third Semester Courses

S.#

Title of the Course

Credit Hours

Marks

01.

Essentials of Project Management (EPM)

3-0

100

02.

Managing Innovation (MI)

3-0

100

03.

Advanced Research Methods (ARM)

3-0

100

04.

Program and Portfolio Management (PPM)

3-0

100

Total

12-0

400

Table – 4: Fourth Semester Courses

S.#

Title of the Course

Credit Hours

Marks

01.

Project Management  Software (PMS)

3-0

100

02.

Project Risk Management (PRM)

3-0

100

03.

Project Cost  and Finance Management (PCFM)

3-0

100

04.

Project Planning, and Implementation (PPI)

3-0

100

Total

12-0

400

Table – 5: Fourth Semester Courses

S.#

Title of the Course

Credit Hours

Marks

01.

Procurement and Contract Management (PCM)

3-0

100

02.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)

3-0

100

Total

6-0

200

Table – 6: Sixth Semester Courses

S.#

Title of the Course

Credit Hours

01.

THESIS

6-0

Total

6-0