Project Management Certificate

University of Houston - Clear Lake

Enhance Your Degree with Project Management Skills

In today’s world, many technical careers are project-based with a focus on planning, negotiating and executing. Employers from various industries seek professionals with the knowledge base, vocabularies and tools rounded in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), established by the Project Management Institute. University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Project Management Certificate was developed based on specific criteria and ongoing research, with an emphasis on PMBOK, to meet the needs of these employers. Intended for non-degree-seeking students, this graduate certificate can complement virtually any engineering, science and technical field.

Expand Your Career Options

Courses in the Project Management Certificate program provide effective schemes and practical tools that you can apply toward projects at work. For your convenience and to accommodate your work schedule, courses are available both online and face-to-face. You’ll learn negotiation strategies, engineering management planning, professional project management approaches, and organizational analysis and management methods. These skills can be applied to virtually any career project, making you a more valuable candidate to employers in STEM fields.

Certificate Requirements

To earn the certificate, the four-course set below must be completed at UHCL within a four-year time limit with overall GPA of 3.0 (minimum C or above for each course). No transferred course will be accepted. A student pursuing the certificate may transfer the certificate courses to the EMGT degree plan after successful completion of the certificate and admission to the EMGT MS degree program.

EMGT 5230 Negotiation Strategies

EMGT 5231 Engineering Management Planning

EMGT 5430 Professional Project Management

EMGT 5530 Organizational Analysis and Management