This part-time MBA programme prepares students for leading project teams, setting priorities, and assessing the costs, time needed, and resources required for the successful completion of a variety of corporate projects. Graduates with these skills will find themselves in high demand as quality assurance specialists and project managers. It is mainly designed to cater for the growing need of infrastructural development associated with the fast expanding economy. The Programme instills skills and knowledge required to be a successful Project Manager who must simultaneously manage four basic elements of a project: resources, time, money, and most importantly, scope. All these elements must be managed together if the project, and the project manager, is to be a success.
• Resources – People, equipment, material • Time – Task durations, dependencies, critical path • Money – Costs, contingencies, profit • Scope – Project size, goals, requirements The MBA in Project Management is designed to foster the strategies required to manage projects of various scopes and sizes. The programme is also meant to develop techniques and best practices on how to avoid project pitfalls while you put your newfound project management skills to work in real-world exercises.The MBA combines a blend of modules in fundamental management disciplines well as in the specialised area of project management. The programme emphasises communication and interpersonal skills as well as the conceptual and technical skills critical to managerial careers and are intended primarily to meet the needs of people of the managerial community.