Bachelor of Project Management

Unlike any other project management degree in Australia, this course will provide you with the fundamental project management skills, theories and methods required to succeed in today's complex business environment.Subjects include project finance, statistics, analytics, risk management, organisational behaviour and psychology.

Project managers help organisations deliver new products, services and infrastructure.

They manage and implement new systems and processes and they effect change within organisations.

Working within an industry context, this degree covers the fundamentals of project management from basic theory to technical application in real-world environments.Your lectures and tutorials will be led by expert academics and adopt a complex systems approach - utilising multidisciplinary theories and methods to investigate a particular phenomenon from a holistic viewpoint.

The skills you learn will be applicable and valuable across almost any industry.You can combine your passion for project managementwith a shared pool of more than 100 cross-disciplinary majors as you cultivate specialist industry knowledge and project management expertise.Graduates are highly sought after and work in professional and management roles in property development, events, construction, mining, IT, banking and finance, state or federal government or in consultancy roles in the engineering, water, health or energy sector.Project management skills and methodologies can be applied to a variety of situations, including disease and disaster recovery scenarios where innovative and dynamic approaches are required to marshal resources to achieve an end goal.This degree is also an ideal complement to the Bachelor of Engineering and is offered as a combined degree:

Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Project Management.

• Built Environment (Major)
• Construction (Major)
• People and Change (Minor)
• Project Controls (Minor)

Admission criteria

Admission this course is on the basis of the following criteria:

• a secondary education qualification such as the NSW Higher School Certificate (including national and international equivalents), or approved higher education study, including approved preparation courses.
• English language requirements where these are not demonstrated by sufficient qualifications taught in English.

Admission pathways are open to domestic applicants on the basis of equity or other adjustment factors, including for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants. For details, visit admission pathways.

Mathematics (equivalent of band 4 in the NSW HSC subject Mathematics* OR band E3 in Mathematics Extension 1 or 2, if higher level maths has been undertaken)

In 2019, the maths prerequisite will apply to domestic and international students completing a secondary education (year 12) qualification in Australia (including Australian state and territory year 12 qualifications taken outside Australia).

From 2020, the maths prerequisite applies to domestic students undertaking a secondary education qualification in Australia (including Australian state and territory year 12 qualifications taken outside Australia), higher education studies (e.g. bachelor’s degree, diploma) and approved preparation programs.

From 2020, it will also apply to international students undertaking a secondary education qualification or an approved preparation or foundation program, in Australia (this includes Australian state and territory year 12 qualifications and foundation programs undertaken outside Australia).

For details, including equivalent requirements for other qualifications, visit Mathematics course prerequisites.

*The subject requirement refers to Mathematics (not Mathematics General or Mathematics Standard), or Mathematics Advanced which will be first examined in the NSW HSC in 2020.

Credit for previous study

If you’ve already completed university-level or equivalent subjects, you may be able to apply for credit for previous study.

What you'll study

Units of Study