Online Project Management Courses & Training

Drexel University's Continuing Professional Education offers online project management courses that provide the necessary skills to successfully run a project.

You will focus on the key principles of project management in the real world, and gain the tools, best practices and techniques needed for achieving project success and leading a team.

Available Courses

Our online project management courses include:

Leadership PDU Bundle

The Project Management Institute® (PMI®) requires all practitioners to earn professional development units (PDUs) to maintain credentials. The three self-paced courses included in this bundle — Leading Teams, Leading and Managing Change, and The Manager's Toolbox: Business Nuts and Bolts — provide 15 PDUs in total, with a special concentration in leadership.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 12 hours
Cost: $199

Managing Real World Projects

Continue your project management studies by learning how to lead and manage through the five key project stages: initiating, planning, controlling, executing and closing. You also gain the basic tools needed to successfully execute each of these stages, including templates for a comprehensive project plan, work breakdown schedules, task lists, issue lists, risk registers and close-out documents.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 10 hours
Cost: $259

Project Management Team Leadership

Explore the roles and responsibilities of the project management team leader and learn how to work with project stakeholders, build a positive team environment through effective communication, and solve problems with teams.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 18 hours
Cost: $399

Quality Management Basics

Through case studies in the manufacturing industry, you understand how specific tools and techniques can be used to monitor and control quality — to satisfy customers and stakeholders.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 12 hours
Cost: $309

Effectively Managing Project Stakeholders

Understand and resolve issues that can emerge from interactions among project stakeholders all while refining your ability to effectively manage and interact with project constituents.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 3 hours
Cost: $95

Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers

Discover the underlying concepts of emotional intelligence — the ability to identify and control our emotions to achieve positive outcomes in our relationships — and learn how you can improve, and make use, of your emotional intelligence in the workplace.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 3 hours
Cost: $79

Ethics for Project Managers

Review the major ethical issues facing project managers and look into the specific challenges project leaders may confront as you deal with team members, vendors, stakeholders and sponsors.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 3 hours
Cost: $79

PM Primer: Cognitive Ability and Decisiveness

Expand your essential skills by applying effective cognitive ability and decision-making skills — so you make efficient choices that will help in dealing with uncertainties and align work with expectations to lead your team to a successful result.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 3 hours
Cost: $79

PM Primer: Conflict Resolution

Learn to recognize the triggers that signal conflict and intervene as early as possible, to prevent problems from shifting focus away from work and to ensure that project participants interact professionally as they meet their responsibilities and execute their roles.

Format: Self-paced
Location: Online
Length: 3 hours
Cost: $79