Project Management

Classes:

• Project Management Essentials (3 units)

Learn how to define, plan and execute a project whether your goal is simple or complex. Gain the tools and knowledge for delivering projects on time and on budget, while meeting performance specifications. Explore the basic components of project management and the project life cycle: determining the correct project through strategic portfolio analysis; creating a successful charter; assembling and managing a team; analyzing and controlling risk; monitoring project milestones; and closing out the project. Get the hands-on skills you need to help you successfully complete your next project management assignment.
 

• Work Team Concepts and Skills (3 units)

Discover key factors that distinguish teams and shape team excellence, particularly communication and conversational dynamics. Study theories and models of individual and group conversational dynamics. Learn how to design powerful conversations to produce the results you want to achieve. Explore common team-related issues, including team charter and team contracts, trust, culture and conflict resolution. You will also have the opportunity to practice diagnosing and dealing with a variety of group dynamics through a team project.
 

• Transformational Leadership (3 units)

Transformational Leadership distinguishes between the skills of management and leadership, focusing on fundamental transformation from the inside out. This course helps individuals assess both how they show up as leaders (their “Way of Being”) and how they get work done (“Way of Doing”), which are equally important for leadership success. Transformational Leadership uses assessment and experiential coaching/development techniques designed to build self-awareness, mindfulness, and expand one’s ability to be self-correcting, self-generating in creating desired personal and organizational results, while creating long term excellence in performance.
 

• Agile Power Practices Online (3 units)

This course provides an overview of the tools used in Agile methods of project management. Program and project managers who need to understand the balance and necessity of organizational stability and agility as they lead teams will learn to practice interactive, lean, and Agile methods. Commonly used terms will be explained and participants will dive deeper into the most common practices. Understanding organizational stability and agility is an essential skill for all project managers.
 

• (Optional) Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (4 units) 

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) provides a systematic method to improve performance efficiencies and to reduce variations in business operations to achieve productivity and profitability gains. Students earn various colors of Belts that indicate their levels of mastery of LSS expertise. A person who has earned the designation of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt often plays a key role in the success of an organization’s process improvement initiatives. As a member or leader of a high-performing LSS project team, the Green Belt is involved in selecting or defining projects, setting project objectives, data gathering, statistical analysis, and change implementation. 
 
 The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course is offered in fall and spring only, which are the first quarters of the Project Management Certificate program. 

Please note: courses are subject to change. Check out the Project Management course descriptions.

Duration: 2 Quarters

Delivery Method: In-person

Visa: F-1 student visa

Program Schedule:

• Monday - Friday, occasional Saturdays
• Daytime and evening courses
• Schedule varies

Schedules vary depending on language level of the student and course selections.

Age: 18+ 
 
Language Proficiency Requirement:

• TOEFL iBT: 79

• IELTS: 6.5

• B2 First (Cambridge English: First-FCE): B2/C1

• C1 Advanced (Cambridge English Advanced-CAE):180-C1 and C2 Proficiency (Cambridge English Proficiency-CPE): 180-C1

• Duolingo English Test (DET): 110

• Pearson Test of English (PTE): 58

• TOEIC (all four subjects are required):

  • Listening: 445 

  • Reading: 420 

  • Speaking: 170

  • Writing: 165

• ELI level (8-week programs): 7 or higher

For questions regarding alternative English proficiency exams, please email ipadmission@ucsd.edu.

Additional Admission Requirements:

• Your official university transcripts in English

  • You must have successfully completed a three or four-year bachelor’s degree OR have four years of professional, full-time, work experience.  
  • If you have pursued graduate-level coursework or degrees, you must include those transcripts as well.

• Résumé or curriculum vitae (CV)

  • One year of full-time professional work experience, if also applying with a degree.
  • No degree required if the applicant has four years of full-time work experience.

All enrolled students are required to complete an online pre-arrival orientation before starting the Project Management Certificate. 

2024 Dates:

• March 27 - September 14
• September 18 - March 22, 2025

Students may begin this full-time program in spring (March) or fall (September) quarters only. There is no entry to the program in winter (January) or summer (June). 

2024 Prices:

• Application Fee: $225 (nonrefundable)
• Tuition:  $12,050
• (Optional) Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate: $3,000
• International Student Service Fee:  $800 (2 quarters)
• UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies medical insurance: $1,430 (2 quarters)
• Books/Materials: Approximately $300-$800 per quarter (Payment CANNOT be made in advance. Books and materials must be purchased at UC San Diego upon arrival.)

2025 Dates:

• March 24 - September 13
• September 17 - March 21, 2026

Students may begin this full-time program in spring (March) or fall (September) quarters only. There is no entry to the program in winter (January) or summer (June). 

2025 Prices:

• Application Fee: $225 (nonrefundable)
• Tuition: $14,490
• (Optional) Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate: $3,000
• International Student Service Fee: $800 (2 quarters)
• UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies medical insurance: $1,560 (2 quarters)
• Books/Materials: Approximately $300-$800 per quarter (Payment CANNOT be made in advance. Books and materials must be purchased at UC San Diego upon arrival.)

For all 2025 program dates and prices, visit the Dates and Prices page or download the 2025 Dates & Prices document. This document also lists the financial verification required for your program application if you need the Form I-20 for a student visa.